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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 13, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 13, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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July 13, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Over two million cases pending in courts across country

• The country`s superior and lower judiciaries are dealing with a huge backlog of 2.144 million cases as 4.102m cases were decided and 4.06m new cases were filed during 2021, it emerged on July 12, 2022.
• The overall pendency at the start of 2021 before all the courts was 2.16m.
• The Supreme Court, Federal Shariat Court and five high courts of the country disposed of 229,822 cases and 241,250 new cases were instituted during last year and pending cases stood at 389,549 before the superior courts on Dec 31 while the same tally was 378,216 on Jan 1, 2021

2. Reserves fall as external debt servicing rises

• Pakistan could face a serious problem as its foreign exchange reserves fast depleting amid rising external debt servicing.
• The country`s external debt servicing rose to $10.886 billion in the first three quarters of 2021-22 compared to $13.38bn in the entire FY21.
• It was just $1.653bn in 1QFY22 against $3.51bn in the first quarter of 2020-21. However, the debt servicing jumped to $4.357bn in 2QFY22 and further to $4.875bn in 3QFY22
• The country has been facing a serious threat from its external front as the State Bank of Pakistan`s foreign exchange reserves fell to single digits despite a $2.3bn inflow from China late last month.

3. Public right of way can`t be denied irrespective of revenue record: LHC

• The Lahore High Court has observed that even if a street or a passage is not a declared public street in the revenue record, a public passage could still come into existence following its use by the general public.
• And a district or a sub-divisional magistrate can invoke powers under section 133 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for the removal of nuisance or blockade of a public thorough fare.
• Justice Muhammad Shan Gul has made these observations in a verdict issued on a petition challenging decision of two lower courts wherein an order of an area magistrate to restore and open a public passage for use of public was upheld

4. WHO calls for development of new vaccines to cope with AMR

• The World Health Organisation on July 12, 2022 released a report on the vaccines currently in development to prevent infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens.
• WHO`s analysis points to the need to accelerate trials for AMR-related vaccines in the late-stage development and maximise the use of existing vaccines.
• The bacteria have internal intelligence due to which they change themselves according to the medicine and create resistance against the medicines. In the past, bacteria could be killed with low potency medicines but now for the same virus high potency medicines are required due to AMR

5. Participation of women in workforce greatly constrained: study

• Pointing out that women`s participation in the workforce is greatly constrained, a World Bank study says at 20 per cent, Pakistan`s workforce participation rate for women is one of the lowest both in South Asia and globally.
• Low education levels, mobility challenges and gender norms limit women from entering and being retained in the formal workforce, and consequently, a significant proportion of women workers are represented in the informal sector as home-based workers (HBWs), according to details of the study.
• Pakistan has 4.4 million HBWs, of whom 3.6m are women. These workers perform work for remuneration from their home or other premises of their choice, and they mainly operate as piece-rate or own-account workers involved in production and manufacturing chains to make products like textile articles, leather goods or raising livestock for agriculture and bi-products

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6. One Rajapaksa flees after brother prevented from leaving

• Sri Lanka`s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flew out of the country in the wee hours of Wednesday morning in a military plane heading to the neighbouring Maldives, local officials said, following widespread protests against him.
• The 73-year-old leader, his wife and a bodyguard were among four passengers on board an Antonov-32 aircraft which took off from the main international airport, immigration officials said.
• Earlier, he had headed to a naval base on Tuesday with a view to fleeing his island by ship following a humiliating standoff at the airport, official sources said

7. Iran to supply Russia with UAVs for use in Ukraine: US

• Iran is planning to supply hundreds of drones with combat weapon capabilities to Russia for use in Ukraine, a top US official said on Monday.
• Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said the information received by the United States supported views that the Russian military is facing challenges sustaining its weaponry after significant losses in Ukraine.
• `The Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), including weapons-capable UAVs, on an expedited timeline,` Sullivan told reporters

8. Ukraine claims destroying Russian arms depot in Moscow-controlled region

• Kyiv said on Tuesday it had launched artillery barrages that a destroyed a Russian arms depot and carried out a `special operation` to free military captives in the Moscow controlled Kherson region.
• The bombardments in the south came as Washington and the EU announced nearly $3 billion combined for Ukraine and Turkey said delegations from Moscow and Kyiv would meet in Istanbul Wednesday to discuss restarting stalled grain deliveries across the Black Sea.
• Ukrainian military officials said the strikes had destroyed artillery, armoured vehicles `and a warehouse with ammunition` in the town of Nova Kakhovka

9. BBC report reveals UK commandos killed 54 unarmed Afghans

• Commandos in Britain`s elite Special Air Service (SAS) corps killed at least 54 Afghans in suspicious circumstances but the military chain of command concealed concerns, a BBC investigation said on Tuesday.
• Unarmed Afghan men were routinely shot dead `in cold blood` by SAS troops during night-time raids during the long war, and weapons were planted on them to justify the crimes, the four-year probe found.
• Senior officers, including General Mark Carleton-Smith who headed UK Special Forces at the time, were aware of concerns within the SAS about the operations but f ailed to report them to military police, it said

10. Stardust and `time travel`: revolutionary images from James Webb show universe in new light

• The cosmic cliffs of a stellar nursery, a quintet of galaxies bound in a celestial dance: the James Webb Space Telescope released its next wave of images on Tuesday, heralding a new era of astronomy.
• `Every image is a new discovery,` said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. `Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we`ve never seen before.
• Released one by one, the new images demonstrated the full power of the $10 billion observatory, which uses infrared cameras to gaze into the distant universe in unprecedented clarity.
• On Monday, Webb revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years

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