Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 01, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 01, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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June 01, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PM sees $5bn trade potential with Turkey

• On the first day of his official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif noted that the closeness in Pakistan and Turkey`s relationship was not reflected in trade relations between the two countries, and expressed the desire that the volume of trade between the two should go up to $5 billion per year.
• Addressing the Turkey Pakistan Business Forum, the PM regretted what he termed the `maltreatment` of Turkish investors at the hands of the previous government over the past four years.
• `The first metro in Lahore was designed by Turkey. Solid waste management expertise given to Pakistan in peanuts.
• Turkish trained our police free of cost. But in return what we have done to our Turkish brothers.
• He also announced a decision to lift visa restrictions for Turkish citizens

2. NA loses six seats in preliminary delimitation

• The ECP issued preliminary lists of national and provincial assembly constituencies on May 31, 2022, revising the National Assembly seats from 342 to 336.
• The fresh delimitation has decreased the number of National Assembly general seats from 272 to 266 as per law. Women and minority seats will remain unchanged at 60 and 10, respectively.
• As for provinces, Punjab will have 141 general seats in the National Assembly, Sindh 61, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 45, and Balochistan 16. Islamabad will have three seats.
• An NA constituency in KP has been demarcated at 788,933 people, Islamabad 667,789, Punjab 780,069, Sindh 784,500, and Balochistan 77,946

3. Stricter punishments for offences against children as KP Assembly passes bill

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on May 31, 2022 passed the much-delayed provincial Child Protection and Welfare (Amendment) Bill, 2022, making punishments for crimes against children, including sexual abuse, pornography, organ trade and trafficking, more stringent.
• The bill, which was introduced in the house in March 2022, had been under discussion at multiple forums. Civil society groups and lawmakers had carried out a campaign for enhancing punishments for sexual offenders in the wake of the rape and death of a minor girl in Nowshera district two years ago.
• The assembly had constituted a special committee on child abuse to recommend certain amendments to the existing law. The amended act has death sentence or imprisonment of life and fine which shall not be less than two million to five million rupees for the offender involved in dealing with organs of a child

4. Revenue collection jumps 28pc to Rs5.4tr

• The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) raised a record Rs5.349 trillion in the first 11 months of 2021-22. However, the collection fell short of the projected target by Rs18 billion, showed provisional data released on May 31, 2022.
• Compared with the revenue collection of Rs4.164tr in the same period in 2020-21, a 28.5 per cent growth was posted in the July-May period.
• The collection in May stood at Rs490 as the FBR missed the target by Rs21bn. However, it rose by 26.8pc from last year`s Rs387bn.
• The provisional figures will further improve after the closure of payment receipts and reconciliation with the State Bank of Pakistan

5. Russian troops take partial `control` of Ukrainian city

• Russian forces have taken partial control of a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said on Tuesday, hours after European Union leaders struck a deal to ban more than two thirds of Moscow`s oil imports.
• Severodonetsk is one of several urban hubs that lie on Russia`s path to capturing the Donbas`s Lugansk region, where Moscow has shifted the bulk of its firepower since failing to capture Kyiv in the war`s early stages.
• `The situation is extremely complicated. Part of Severodonetsk is controlled by the Russians, Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday said in a statement on social media, adding that Ukrainian troops still retained some areas

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6. Big tobacco`s environmental impact is devastating: WHO

• The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world`s biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO said on May 31, 2022.
• The World Health Organisation accused the industry of causing widespread deforestation, diverting badly needed land and water in poor countries away from food production, spewing out plastic and chemical waste as well as emitting millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.
• In its report released on World No Tobacco Day, the UN agency called for the tobacco industry to be held to account and foot the bill for the cleanup

7. India, China seek to normalise ties

• India and China on May 31, 2022 agreed to hold the next round of the senior commanders meeting at an early date to achieve complete disengagement from all friction points in eastern Ladakh to create conditions for the restoration of normalcy in bilateral ties.
• According to The Hindu, the two sides reviewed the situation in eastern Ladakh at a meeting held under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China border affairs.
• The two sides exchanged views on the current situation along the LAC in the Western Sector in Eastern Ladakh, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement

8. Lebanon re-elects Nabih Berri as speaker for seventh term

• Lebanese lawmakers re-elected Nabih Berri as parliament speaker on Tuesday for a seventh consecutive term, cementing his reputation as an immovable centerpiece of the country`s political landscape.
• Berri`s candidacy went largely unchallenged but the 84-year-old clinched only the bare minimum number of votes needed for a win one of his lowest counts since he first rose to the helm of parliament 30 years ago.
• Some lawmakers spoilt their ballots by writing slogans blaming the ruling class that Berri embodies for the successive crises that have hit Lebanon, from the 2020 Beirut port explosion to political assassinations and an ongoing economic meltdown

9. Canada announces complete freeze on handgun ownership

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday a proposed freeze on handgun ownership in Canada that would effectively ban their importation and sale, following recent mass shootings in the United States.
• The bill must still be passed by parliament, with the ruling Liberals holding only a minority of seats.
• `We`re introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership,` Trudeau told a news conference, joined by dozens of families and friends of victims of gun violence.
• `What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,`he said. `In other words, we`re capping the market for handguns

10. Israel, UAE boost ties with free trade accord

• Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates on May 31, 2022, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalisation of diplomatic relations in 2020.
• Israel`s ambassador to the oil-rich UAE, Amir Hayek, tweeted `mabruk` congratulations in Arabic with a photo of Emirati and Israeli officials holding documents at a signing ceremony in Dubai.
• The Emirati envoy to Israel, Mohamed Al Khaja, hailed as an `unprecedented achievement` the deal that, according to the Israeli side, scraps customs duties on 96 percent of all products traded

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