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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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June 04, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. ISI given legal cover to screen government officials

• The prime minister has officially tasked the country`s premier spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), with the screening of civil servants before their induction, appointments and postings, as well as promotions.
• In doing so, the government has given legal cover to a practice that had already been in place, but had not been formalised as part of protocol.
• According to the Establishment Division notification: `In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section 1 of section 25 of the Civil Servants Act 1973 […] read with notification No. SRO 120 (1)/1998 […] the Prime Minister is pleased to notify Directorate General Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) as [the] Special Vetting Agency (SVA) for verification and screening of all Public Office Holders (Officers Category)

2. Sindh, KP tighten their belts with fuel quota slash

• After an unprecedented hike of Rs60 per litre in fuel prices in nearly a week, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments have slashed the fuel quota enjoyed by cabinet members, legislators and government officials by more than a third, whereas the federal government i s also considering a similar austerity move.
• The two provincial governments notified the decision on Friday while a federal cabinet member, who wished to remain anonymous, told Dawn the prime minister was also mulling over a cut in fuel quota.
• On Friday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on the privileged classes to make sacrifices and to adopt simplicity, saying that everyone would have to make sacrifices during these challenging times.

3. Verification of Afghan refugees completed

• The government, with the support of the UN refugee agency, has completed the verification of some 1.3 million registered Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.
• The Documentation Renewal and Information Verification Exercise (Drive) was aimed at updating and verifying the data of Afghans holding a Proof of Registration (PoR) card.
• The exercise was a joint effort of the ministry of states and frontier regions, the chief commissionerate commissioner for Afghan refugees, and the UNHCR with technical assistance of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra)

4. Two soldiers martyred in N. Waziristan: ISPR

• Two soldiers were martyred during exchange of fire with terrorists in two areas of North Waziristan tribal district on Thursday night and Friday.
• Security forces came under attacks in the volatile district when the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has announced ceasefire for an indefinite period after negotiations with a grand jirga from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Kabul.
• Inter-Services Public Relations confirmed the martyrdom of Sepoy Imran Khan, resident of Jafarabad and Sepoy Hamid Ali, resident of Sargodha

5. KP Assembly provides legal cover to Sehat Insaf Card scheme

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday passed the KP Universal Health Coverage Bill, 2022, to give legal cover to the provincial government`s flagship Sehat Insaf Card scheme, which covers 7.4 million families across the province with each family entitled to Rs1 million worth of free healthcare annually.
• It also passed with unusual haste seven other important bills, including KP Fiscal Responsibility Bill, KP Revenue Authority Bill, Healthcare Facilities Bill and Local Government Bill.
• The entire legislative exercise was completed within 30 minutes as the house rejected the amendments proposed by the opposition to the bills

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6. 10pc duty imposed on Chinese petroleum

• Pakistan on Friday imposed a 10 per cent regulatory duty on the import of petroleum products from China after a massive 673pc surge in duty-free imports to Rs250 billion this year with a revenue loss of Rs25bn under the garb of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA).
• A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet which also approved almost Rs147bn worth of supplementary grants including Rs81bn additional funds to defense services for expenditure before June 30.
• The meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, also approved a summary for the grant of an unspecified amount of honorarium to officers and staff of the ministry of finance and revenue board. The decisions came a day after the government increased petroleum prices to reduce the budgetary burden

7. Russia walks the plank to a foreign bond default

• Russia`s failure to send an interest payment to creditors is triggering a payout on debt insurance, taking the country another step closer to its first default on international bonds since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago.
• On Friday, the European Union expanded sanctions on Russia, including on a domestic payments processing firm Moscow hoped to use for servicing its Eurobonds.
• Nudging Russia towards a debt crisis through the mechanism of financial sanctions is part of a wider stand-off that has built up between the Kremlin and the West during the 100 days since Russia`s invasion of Ukraine, which it refers to as a `special operation`

8. US report marks out India, Pakistan for restricting religious freedom

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has marked out both India and Pakistan for restricting religious freedom India for rising attacks on religious minorities and their places of worship and Pakistan for sentencing 16 people to death last year on blasphemy charges.
• `In India, … we`ve seen rising attacks on people and places of worship,` said the chief US diplomat while launching the annual US report on religious freedom.
• `In Pakistan, at least 16 individuals accused of blasphemy were sentenced to death in 2021, though none of these sentences has yet to be carried out,` he added

9. EU bans most Russian oil imports, unveils other sanctions

• The EU formally adopted a ban on most Russian oil imports on Friday, hitting Moscow with its toughest sanctions over the war on Ukraine after weeks of wrangling with Hungary.
• The sanctions the sixth wave imposed by the 27-nation bloc since the Kremlin launched the invasion in February include cutting Russia`s biggest bank Sberbank from the global SWIFT messaging system, the text published in the EU`s official journal said. President Vladimir Putin`s alleged girlfriend, former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, was also added to an assets freeze and visa ban blacklist, along with Russian army personnel suspected of war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
• EU leaders agreed to target Russia`s oil exports after weeks of resistance from Hungary, ceding to Prime Minister Viktor Orban`s demand to exempt Russian oil delivered by pipeline

10. Turkish official uses `Turkiye` nameplate at UN

• The UN confirmed on June 3, 2022 that it has accepted a request from the Turkish government to change the country`s name from Turkey to Türkiye.
• A picture released by Türkiye`s Anadolu news agency showed a Turkish diplomat, Ayse Inanc, sitting behind the new nameplate at the United Nations.
• UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Thursday afternoon that the United Nations had received a letter from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday, requesting Secretary General Antonio Guterres to use `Türkiye` instead of `Turkey` in all official documents

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