Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 29, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. KP cabinet okays bill to regularise 58,000 ad hoc teachers

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on June 28, 2022 approved the proposed law for the regularisation of around 58,000 ad hoc schoolteachers hired in the province during the last five years.
• The development comes following a sitin by thousands of those teachers outside the Islamabad mansion of the chairman of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and former prime minister, Imran Khan, on June 19.
• Spokesman for the government Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif told reporters that the teachers to be regularised under the proposed KP Teachers (Appointment and Regularisation of Services) Act, 2022, had been appointed to the sanctioned BPS 12-16 posts in government schools since 2017 `on merit`

7. Scotland sets Oct 2023 for new independence vote

• Scotland`s government on Tuesday drew the battle lines for a legal and political tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on Oct 19, 2023.
• Addressing the Edinburgh parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon conceded that her devolved administration may lack the power to call the vote without London`s approval.
• To ensure legal clarity, it will seek an opinion from the UK Supreme Court before it asks voters: `Should Scotland be an independent country?` The phrasing of the question was the same as Scottish voters were asked in 2014, and Sturgeon said her government would press the case anew with `commitment, confidence and passion`

8. Russia will work to `normalise Afghanistan, says Putin

• Russia is working actively to `normalise` the situation in Afghanistan, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during a visit to neighbouring Tajikistan, evoking Moscow`s responsibilities in the area.
• `We are doing everything to normalise the situation (in Afghanistan) and we are trying to build relations with the political forces that control the situation,` Putin said during talks with Tajikistan`s President Emomali Rakhmon.
• But their starting point was that Afghanistan`s ethnic groups should take a full part in running the country, he added, in comments broadcast by Russian media.
• `Here, you know best… what needs to be done to ensure that the situation in the region, in this zone where we have a common responsibility, is stable and threatens no one,` he told Rakhmon

9. EU-mediated Doha talks on nuclear deal begin

• Chief negotiators from the United States and Iran began indirect talks in Qatar on June 28, 2022, bidding to remove obstacles that have stalled attempts to revive a landmark nuclear deal.
• The indirect negotiations headed by US special envoy Robert Malley and Iran`s Ali Bagheri come after more than a year of European Union-mediated talks in Vienna on a return to the 2015 agreement between Tehran and world powers.
• The Doha talks also come just two weeks before US President Joe Biden`s first visit to the region since taking office, when efforts to curb Iran`s nuclear ambitions will be high on the agenda

10. Israel passes bill to dissolve parliament, hold new elections

• Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill to dissolve parliament, a key legislative step that pushes the country closer towards its fifth election in less than four years.
• Members of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett`s outgoing coalition and the opposition led by ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu have been sparring in Israel`s parliament, the Knesset, since last week over a dissolution bill.
• The coalition said it wanted quick approval of the bill after Bennett announced last week that his year-old, ideologically divided, eight-party alliance was no longer tenable