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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 21, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 21, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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July 21, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Miftah sees economy stabilising with inflows `on cards`

• Blaming political factors for the latest downturn in currency and share markets, Pakistan`s economic managers tried on July 20, 2022 to reassure that macroeconomic fundamentals were stabilising and $8.5-10 billion inflows have been lined up from friendly countries against a financing gap of $4bn estimated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• Simultaneously, economic managers of both incumbent and former PTI governments appeared to hint at the continuation of a staff level agreement with the IMF under an interim set-up.
• While Finance Minister Miftah Ismail and senior State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) officials said the IMFhad no problem working with an interim set-up, former finance minister Shaukat Tarin also offered cooperating with a `credible interim government` on the continuation of the IMF programme

2. Pakistani passport remains `fourth-worst in world`

• The Pakistani passport continues to be the fourth-worst in the world, not changing its position from a year ago and providing access to only 32 destinations, according to the Henley Passport Index for 2022.
• The Henley Passport Index is a ranking of all the world`s 199 passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa, Dawn.com reported on July 20, 2022.
• The ranking is based on data from the International Air Transport Association, which maintains the world`s largest database of travel information, and it is enhanced by extensive, ongoing research by the Henley & Partners Research Department

3. Courts disposed of 2.25m cases since Jan

• The country`s superior and lower judiciaries decided 4.1 million cases against an institution of 4.06m cases last year and has already disposed of around 2.25m cases against the filing of around 2.13m new cases during the first six months of this year, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) said.
• According to an LJCP statement, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has alone decided 11,233 cases against an institution of 8,508 cases during January-June.
• `A reclining trend in the backlog of cases is evident currently, reducing the backlog to 2.1m cases (2,080,601) till June 2022 from 2.2m cases (2,162,042) in January 2021,` it said

4. Pakistan removed from child soldiers list

• The United States has also removed Pakistan from a list of countries that allow the recruitment of child soldiers.
• On Tuesday, the US State Department upgraded Pakistan on another list of states that do not take adequate steps to curb human trafficking removing it from a watch list of potential violators.
• Pakistan was placed on the Child Soldiers Prevention List (CSPA) in 2021.
• The 2021 report accused Pakistan of providing `material support to non-state armed groups that recruited and used child soldiers`.
• The previous report also claimed that the Pakistani government did not report investigating, prosecuting, or convicting individuals of child soldiering offences in 2021

5. ECP postpones polls in Sindh till August

• The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has postponed the second phase of local government elections in Sindh and by polls on a national assembly seat NA-245 in Karachi till August owing to concerns related to weather and Muharram. The decision was taken at a meeting of the commission under the chairmanship of Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja in Islamabad on Wednesday.
• It was attended by the members and secretary of the ECP among other officials.
• In a statement following the meeting, the election watchdog said the local government polls will be held on August 28 instead of July 24 whereas the election on the NA-245 seat will be held on August 21 instead of July 27 due to possible rainy weather and Muharram which is expected to start later this month

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6. Rs 1bn relief package announced for flood-hit Swabi

• Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on July 20, 2022 gave away compensation cheques to the victims of floods and also announced Rs1 billion relief package for the regions suffered extensive damage during the recent deluge.
• According to the revenue department`s damage assessment report, recent floods killed four people, injured seven, dam-aged 300 buildings, including schools and houses, and destroyed crops on 50,000 acres of land in various regions.
• During a visit to the flood-hit areas, the chief minister also announced Rs200 million for repairing the damaged electricity infrastructure

7. UN records hundreds of killings and rights violations by Taliban

• The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on July 20, 2022 that the ruling Taliban were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power.
• An UNAMA report said the violations were targeted at a number of groups, including those associated with the ousted government, human rights defenders and journalists.
• Women`s rights had also been eroded, it said.
• `UNAMA is concerned about the impunity with which members of the de facto authorities appear to have carried out human rights violations,` it said in a statement

8. Russia says its military aims now go beyond Ukraine`s east

• Russia said on Wednesday that its military aims in Ukraine have expanded beyond the industrial Donbas region as its forces launched deadly barrages over the east and the south of the country.
• The warning came as the European Commission called on EU countries to slash demand for natural gas to relieve dependence on Russian energy and the bloc agreed an embargo on Russian gold imports.
• Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview that Moscow`s military was no longer `only` focused on wresting control of the east Ukraine regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, which have been partially controlled by proMoscow rebels for years.
• `The geography is different now. It is not only about the DNR and LNR, but also the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories` he explained to state media

9. Iran clarifies nuclear policy unchanged after `bomb` remark

• Tehran gave assurances on July 20, 2022 that its nuclear policy was unchanged and that it still adhered to a fatwa banning weapons of mass destruction, after an Iranian official said the country was able to make atomic bombs.
• It is the second time in the past 18 months that Iran has reiterated its opposition to nuclear weapons following comments by an official.
• `In regard to the topic of weapons of mass destruction, we have the fatwa`, or religious edict, by Iran`s supreme leader that prohibits the manufacture of such weapons, said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani

10. Crisis-hit Sri Lanka gets new president

• Six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as crisis-wracked Sri Lanka`s new president in a parliamentary vote on July 20, 2022, with the backing of the disgraced former leader`s SLPP party.
• Official results gave the veteran politician 134 votes, an absolute majority in the 225-member parliament, after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country and resigned in the wake of protesters overrunning his palace.
• Wickremesinghe`s main opponent in the vote was SLPP dissident and former education minister Alahapperuma, 63, a former journalist who was supported by the opposition and received 82 votes

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