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

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

1. Miftah tries to reassure country as clock ticks on IMF deal

• Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on June 20, 2022 sounded confident about reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)in a day or so for the revival of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and vowed to provide income tax relief to those with up to Rs1.2 million annual earnings.
• Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the Senate standing committee on finance, the minister said he hoped to reach an agreement in a day or so with IMF staff on the revival of its programme that had been suspended after the previous government reneged on its commitments.
• He also agreed to the suggestion that the government should not tax owners of open plots for `deemed` rental income until they were given complete possession of the plots after development by the housing societies

2. Balochistan budget session put off over `internal differences`

• Presentation of the annual budget for Balochistan for the fiscal year 2022-23 was delayed for another day reportedly after some details could not be finalised on June 20, 2022.
• However, there were also reports that certain ruling party MPAs had objected to the allocation of massive funds for the development schemes of a senior minister.
• The budget session was postponed after Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo sent a summary to the acting governor at the eleventh hour to delay the session by one day.
• Such a situation has rarely ever occured in the past in the parliamentary history of Balochistan that a scheduled budget session has been deferred. Earlier, the finance department had fixed June 17 for presenting the budget, but two days ago, a fresh date was announced.

3. President returns NAO bill, says it will promote graft

• In line with his PTI`s stance, President Dr Arif Alvi on June 20, 2022 did not give his assent to a bill regarding amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO), terming it `regressive that will cripple long arm of the law and promote corruption in the country`.
• On Sunday, the president had returned electoral reforms bill unsigned.
• The two bills were approved by the National Assembly and Senate last month and were sent to the president for approval. However, Mr Alvi sent them back to the government unsigned on June 4.
• In response to the president`s refusal to approve the bills, the government convened a joint sitting of the parliament on June 9 and the two bills were approved by the joint sitting the same day

4. Covid-19 positivity in Karachi, Hyderabad over 10pc

• Covid-19 rears its ugly head again as the country has reported the highest number of cases over the past around 80 days, with the positivity ratio in Karachi and Hyderabad surpassing 10 per cent.
• National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) member Dr Shahzad Ali Khan said the rising number of cases showed that effectiveness of the vaccine was reducing because of the time lapse and suggested that people go for the booster shots.
• He said possible reasons for the upsurge are waning of vaccine immunity after six months, avoiding booster doses, virus mutations into more virulent type causing higher infectivity, going back to almost normal lifestyle in crowded places in Karachi, Hyderabad and Islamabad, increasing international and local travelling, less care by people about social distancing and masks, and seasonal pattern like flu as Covid-19 belongs to the same flu family

5. Russia becomes China`s energy lifeline

• China ramped up crude oil imports from Russia in May, customs data showed on Monday, helping to offset losses from Western nations scaling back Russian energy purchases over the invasion of Ukraine.
• The spike means Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become China`s top oil provider as the West sanctions Moscow`s energy exports.
• The world`s second-biggest economy imported around 8.42 million tonnes of oil from Russia last month a 55 percent rise on-year.
• Beijing has refused to publicly condemn Moscow`s war and has instead exacted economic gains from its isolated neighbour.
• It imported 7.82 million tonnes of oil from Saudi Arabia in May

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6. Russia threatens to hit back as Lithuania bans rail transit to Kaliningrad

• Russia on June 20, 2022 demanded the immediate lifting of Lithuania`s `openly hostile` restrictions on the rail transit of EU-sanctioned goods to Moscow`s exclave of Kaliningrad that borders Lithuania and Poland.
• Moscow accused the Baltic nation of banning the rail transit of goods subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union over Russia`s military campaign in Ukraine.
• Russia`s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that it had summoned Lithuania`s charge d`affaires in Moscow to protest the `provocative` and `openly hostile` measures

7. Ex-guerilla Petro elected Colombia`s first leftist president

• Ex-guerilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.
• With all votes counted, Petro the 62-year-old former mayor of Bogota won with 50.4 percent to Hernandez`s 47.3 percent.
• `As of today, Colombia is changing, a real change that guides us to one of our aims: the politics of love… of understanding and dialogue,` said Petro.
• Hernandez, 77, accepted the result, in which he came up short by 700,000 votes, in a Facebook live broadcast

8. OIC calls for outlawing `wilful religious provocations`

• The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged the international community on June 20, 2022 to outlaw all willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence.
• In a statement read at a high-level UN meeting on countering hate speech, the OIC also expressed grave concern on the `denigration of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)` by officials of India`s ruling Bhartiya Janta Party. Pakistan`s UN Ambassador Munir Akram read the statement on OIC`s behalf. The OIC demanded that all `willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence must be universally outlawed.
• Ambassador Akram reminded the international community that the OIC `remains concerned about willful provocations and defamation of Islamic holy personalities and religious symbols

9. Israel says it`s building regional air defence alliance under US

• Israel is building a US sponsored regional air defence alliance, the Israeli defence minister said on June 20, 2022, adding that the apparatus has already foiled attempted Iranian attacks and could be boosted by President Joe Biden`s visit next month.
• Drawing closer in recent years to US aligned Arab states which share its Iran concerns, Israel has offered them defence cooperation. They have been publicly reticent on the idea.
• Washington hopes more cooperation, especially on security, would help further integrate Israel in the region and isolate Iran.
• It may also preface more normalisation deals with Israel, including by heavyweight Saudi Arabia, following the forging of relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020

10. Popular comedian Masood Khawaja passes away

• Masood Khawaja, actor and comedian who achieved fame in the late 1980s from Pakistan Television (PTV) and theatre in Rawalpindi, passed away at the age of 55 on June 20, 2022.
• He is survived by wife, a son and two daughters.
• Masood Khawaia aka Goaa was suffer in a from a kidney disease and had been on dialysis for six months.
• Doctors had recommended him for a kidney transplant

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