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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 27, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 27, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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July 27, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. SC voids Hamza election, Elahi is new CM

• In a decision that was awaited with bated breath by political observers, the media and all the parties involved, the Supreme Court late on July 26, 2022 declared Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the duly elected chief minister of Punjab for securing 186 votes against the 179 of his opponent, PML-N`s Hamza Shehbaz, in the July 22 runoff poll for the coveted office of the province.
• Later, in the small hours of Wednesday morning, President Dr Arif Alvi administered the oath to CM-designate Elahi at Aiwan-i-Sadr in Islamabad.
• Mr Elahi had to rush from Lahore to the federal capital after Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman refused to carry out the job

2. US to donate 16 million more anti-Covid Pfizer doses

• The United States, which has already provided 61.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, will further donate 16 million doses of paediatric Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan besides an additional $20 million to supplement Pakistan`s vaccination drive.
• According to a statement issued by the health ministry on Tuesday, this was revealed during a US-Pakistan Health Dialogue hosted by the US State Department, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
• Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said Pakistan and United States would deepen their health cooperation in areas of immunisation, nutrition, mother`s health, child survival and health security across borders

3. President okays minister`s appointment

• President Dr Arif Alvi on July 26, 2022 accorded his approval to appointment of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq as federal minister.
• The president approved the appointment on the advice of the prime minister under Article 92 (I) of the Constitution

4. IMF cuts global growth outlook

• Surging inflation and severe slowdowns in the United States and China prompted the IMF on July 26, 2022 to downgrade its outlook for the global economy this year and next, while warning that the situation could get much worse.
• `The outlook has darkened significantly since April,` said IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. `The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one.
• The world`s three largest economies, the United States, China and the euro area are stalling with important consequences for the global outlook,` he said at a briefing

5. Russia plans to quit International Space Station `after 2024`

• Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station `after 2024`, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow`s space agency told President Vladimir Putin on July 26, 2022.
• The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow`s military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998.
• `Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made,` Yury Borisov, who was appointed Roscosmos chief in mid-July, told Putin. `I think that by this time we will start putting together a Russian orbital station,` Borisov added, calling it the space programme`s main `priority`

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6. US and Taliban make progress on Afghan reserves, but big gaps remain

• US and Taliban officials have exchanged proposals for the release of billions of dollars from Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund, three sources familiar with the talks said, offering a hint of progress in efforts to ease Afghanistan`s economic crisis.
• Significant differences between the sides remain, however, according to two of the sources, including the Taliban`s refusal to replace the bank`s top political appointees, one of whom is under US sanctions as are several of the movement`s leaders.
• Some experts said such a move would help restore confidence in the institution by insulating it from interference by the Islamist militant group that seized power a year ago but which foreign governments do not recognise

7. Morocco, Israel sign judicial accord to expand cooperation

• Morocco and Israel added legal links to a growing list of cooperation accords since they normalised relations in 2020, during a visit July 26, 2022 by Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Saar.
• He signed a judicial accord in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Abdellatif Ouahbi.
• A joint statement said the two countries would share expertise and modernise their judicial systems through digitalisation, while cooperating in the fight against organised crime, terrorism and human trafficking

8. Three peacekeepers killed amid anti-UN protests in DR Congo

• Three United Nations peacekeepers and at least 12 demonstrators have been killed in escalating anti-UN protests in eastern DR Congo, officials said on July 26, 2022.
• Anger has been fuelled by perceptions that MONUSCO, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is failing to do enough to stop attacks by armed groups.
• Crowds on Monday stormed a MONUSCO headquarters and supply base in Goma, the chief city in North Kivu province, and the protests spread on Tuesday to Beni and Butembo to the north

9. Pakistani students win laurels in international competition

• The success of Pakistani students who study in schools without walls in the global Huawei competition shows that there is no alternative to dedication and hard work, deputy chief executive officer of Huawei Pakistan Ahmed Bilal Masud said on July 26, 2022.
• He was speaking at a ceremony to honour Sateesh Kumar, Bhagchand Meghwar and Iqra Fatima, winners of the Sixth Huawei ICT Competition 2021-2022.
• They were able to beat competitors from different parts of the world at the Global Final of the event held in Shenzhen, China

10. US says China`s `provocations` threaten major incident

• The United States on July 26, 2022 accused China of increased `provocations` against rival claimants in the South China Sea and said its `aggressive and irresponsible behavior` meant it was only a matter of time before a major incident or accident.
• Jung Pak, deputy assistant secretary for East Asia at the State Department, told a US think tank there was `a clear and upward trend of PRC provocations against South China Sea claimants and other states lawfully operating in the region, referring to the People`s Republic of China.
• She told the Centre for Strategic and International Studies Chinese aircraft had increasingly engaged in unsafe intercepts of Australian aircraft in international airspace above the South China Sea and in three separate incidents in the last few months had challenged marine research and energy exploration activities within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines

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