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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 14, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 14, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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July 14, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Ball in IMF`s court as Pakistan completes talks

• From Pakistan`s perspective, talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are complete, and it is just the internal process of the crisis lender, which would come out with a formal announcement on the successful completion of the seventh and eighth quarterly reviews of a stalled loan programme.
• `Our talks with the IMF are complete and they are now going through their internal approval process,` Finance Minister Miftah Ismail told Dawn, adding that the announcement should now come from the Fund.
• He said the IMF had given the Memorandum of Economic and Fiscal Policies (MEFP) to Islamabad, which had been responded to. `The IMF accepted some of the changes we pro-posed and did not agree on many others.

2. Six terrorists killed, arms seized: ISPR

• Security forces killed six terrorists during an intelligence based operation in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan tribal district, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on July 13, 2022.
• One soldier embraced martyrdom in the operation, the army`s media wing said in a statement.
• It said troops executed a successful operation during which six terrorists were killed. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the terrorists, the ISPR said, adding they remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces.
• However, during intense exchange of fire, Lance Naik Islamuddin, 34, a resident of Khyber tribal district, having fought gallantly, embraced shahadat

3. Women in health sector earn 24pc less than men

• Women in the healthcare sector face a larger gender pay gap than in other fields, earning 24 per cent less than men, according to a joint report prepared by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
• The report found a raw gender pay gap of 20 percentage points, but it jumped to 24 percentage points after accounting for factors such as age, education and working time.
• Much of the wage gap is unexplained, perhaps due to discrimination against women, even though they account for 67pc of health and care workers worldwide

4. Pakistan is second worst country for women, says WEF

• Pakistan is the second-worst country in terms of gender parity, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on July 13, 2022.
• The Global Gender Gap Report placed Pakistan at the 145th spot in a survey of 146 countries. The only worse performer than Pakistan was Afghanistan.
• Pakistan, which has 107 million women, closed at 56.4 per cent in the report`s gender gap index.
• The Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran and Chad were the three other countries to figure among the five worst performers. The WEF report determined that Iceland was the best country in the world in terms of gender parity, followed by Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden, in that order

5. Privatisation Commission chairman resigns

• The chairman of Privatisation Commission, Saleem Ahmad, resigned on July 13, 2022 and sent his resignation letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, citing personal reasons.
• According to an announcement by the commission, the prime minister has accepted Mr Ahmad`s resignation and a new chairman will be appointed soon.
• Mr Ahmed remained the chairman of the commission for five months and, during his tenure, he expedited the revival of Pakistan Steel Mills, started the process of recapitalisation of National Power Parks Management Company Limited and the sale of House Building Finance Corporation Company Limited

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6. President appoints three additional judges to PHC

• President Dr Arif Alvi on July 13, 2022 appointed three judicial officers as additional judges to the Peshawar High Court for a period of one year.
• However, the appointment of Fazal Subhan, Shahid Khan and Khurshid Iqbal will be `subject to the final outcome of an appeal pending before the Supreme Court against a judgement of the high court ordering their appointment has been challenged by the government`, read a notification issued by the ministry of law and justice.
• The appointments will take the number of high court judges to the sanctioned strength of 20. The judges` tenure will begin the day they take oath of their offices

7. Top Trump-era official admits to `planning coups`

• John Bolton, former US president Donald Trump`s national security adviser, has admitted that he was involved in planning coups in foreign countries.
• Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol building by Trump`s supporters.
• The attack, he claimed, was not a `coup d`état against the US Constitution,` arguing that Trump was not smart enough to plan a coup properly.
• Tapper pushed back, saying that `one doesn`t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup

8. Russia, Ukraine put heads together to solve grain crisis

• Russia and Ukraine met UN and Turkish officials on July 13, 2022 in a bid to break a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions f ace hunger.
• The high-stakes meeting in Istanbul came with Russia`s invasion of Ukraine showing no signs of abating and the sides locked in a furious long-range shooting battle that is destroying towns and leaving people with nothing.
• Ukrainian officials said at least five people were killed in Russian shelling on the region surrounding the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv

9. Biden greeted as `old friend` in Israel at start of ME tour

• US President Joe Biden arrived on Wednesday in Israel, which embraced him as an old friend on the first leg of a high-stakes trip dominated by efforts to bring it closer to Saudi Arabia and to persuade Washington`s Gulf allies to pump more oil.
• Landing at Ben Gurion Airport, whose tarmac he first trod in 1973 as a senator, Biden bumped fists with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog and, in a speech, described the connection between the two nations as `bone-deep`.
• `You do not need to be a Jew to be a Zionist,` Biden added, voicing support for the ideology behind Israel`s foundation on lands with ancient Jewish roots, and which is deeply resented by many Palestinians.
• Biden also reiterated US desire for negotiations, stalled since 2014, to create a Palestinian state on Israeli-occupied territory, calling this two state solution `the best hope` for both peoples

10. Rishi Sunak leads in first round of UK leadership contest

• Rishi Sunak, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson, led the field of Conservative lawmakers bidding to become Britain`s next prime minister in the first ballot of Tory lawmakers on July 13, 2022, as the race narrowed to six with the elimination of two candidates.
• Early frontrunner Sunak, who quit as finance minister last week to help trigger outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson`s downfall, topped the contest with 88 votes, followed by former defence minister Penny Mordaunt, on 67.
• Foreign Secretary Liz Truss finished third with 50 Conservative lawmakers` support.

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