Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (March 03, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (March 03, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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March 03, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Pakistan `remains neutral` as UNGA censures Russia

• The UN General Assembly voted to censure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, demanded that Moscow stop fighting and urged it to immediately withdraw its military forces.
• However, in a carefully-worded statement on the Ukrainian crisis, delivered in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on March 2, 2022, Pakistan emphasised the need to protect territorial integrity of a state without threatening the national interests of another.
• Although an overwhelming majority, 141, voted for the resolution, it remains non-binding as a resolution has to be approved by the UN Security Council to be binding

2. DSP among three martyred in Quetta blast

• At least three people, including a police official, were martyred and 25 others injured in a bomb blast in the provincial capital on March 2, 2022.
• The attack took place on the Fatima Jinnah Road that runs through a bazaar, and several shops caught fire after the bombing.
• Official sources said the powerful bomb went off near a police mobile parked in front of a shop.
• `The target of the blast was a police mobile of the station house officer of the city police,` a senior police officer said, adding that the SHO remained unhurt in the blast. A deputy superintendent of the police (DSP) sitting in the shop was martyred in the blast

3. Imran`s `prodigal` aide from Balochistan quits

• Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind, the parliamentary leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the Balochistan Assembly, has once again resigned from the office of Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Power and Natural Resources for Balochistan months after withdrawing a similar move on the PM`s assurance.
• While confirming the development, a spokesman for Mr Rind, Babar Yousafzai, told Dawn he had sent his resignation to PM Khan two days back.
• `Sardar Rind has disclosed his resignation in a private TV channel programme,` he added

4. Jahangir`s mausoleum complex on World Monuments Watch list

• The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has nominated Jahangir`s mausoleum complex as one of the 25 heritage sites on the World Monuments Watch.
• The WMW selection is of globally recognised heritage sites whose preservation is urgent and vital to the communities surrounding them.
• The site was nominated by cultural heritage conservationist Yasmin Cheema and her team, in partnership with the National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak), with support from the Directorate General of Archaeology, Punjab, says a press release

5. Former SC chief justice Khosa selected for prestigious award

• The International Institute for Justice Excellence (IlJE) an international organisation based in The Hague, The Netherlands (Holland) has selected former chief justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa for the Administration of Justice Excellence Award, 2022.
• A formal ceremony to present the award to Justice Khosa is expected in The Hague in the next few weeks.
• The selection of Justice Khosa was made by llJE an international Non-political, Non-profit Institution, dedicated to improving The Administration of Justice, was finalised on Feb 28, 2022 The criteria for selection for the award was demonstration of leadership in improving the administration of justice through the application of modern management techniques; supporting the independence of the judiciary, contributing to the development and implementation of reforms to improve access to, and the administration of justice, increasing proficiencies of other administrators or court staff through service, teaching, and/or contributing to the field through exchange of information relating to court administration; and distinguished service and contributions to the profession having relevance at a State, national or international level

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6. `Pakistan ranked among worst-performing countries in cigarette tax scorecard`

• Poor households in Pakistan spend a larger proportion of their budget on tobacco than rich households, which results in less spending on basic needs. Due to unchanged and low tobacco taxes, Pakistan was ranked among the worst-performing countries in the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard that evaluated the strength of tax systems.
• This was pointed out by health activist, Advocate Malik Imran, as he spoke at an event organised by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc).
• While appreciating Prime Minister Imran Khan`s decision to provide relief to people by lowering prices of petroleum products and electricity, other activists have repeatedly asked the government to increase revenue for itself.

7. In a first, Balochistan starts e-tendering process

• The Balochistan government has started e-tendering to ensure transparency and merit in the bidding and procurement process.
• With this step, Balochistan has become the first province in the country to have introduced e-tendering through legislation passed by the provincial assembly.
• The assembly has approved an amendment to the Balochistan Procurement Authority Rules, 2014, after approval of its draft by the cabinet

8. India agrees to give more data on western river projects

• Amid objections raised by Pakistan to about a dozen hydropower projects on western rivers, India is reported to have agreed to provide additional data and try to address the concerns.
• The three-day meeting between the two commissioners of Permanent Commission on Indus Waters (PCIW) completed discussions on all agenda items on Wednesday and would finalise minutes of the huddle on Thursday. The talks were held in very cordial environment, a participant said.
• Pakistan`s Commissioner for Indus Waters Mehr Ali Shah led the Pakistani side comprising officials of the Water and Power Development Authority, Meteorological Department, Punjab Irrigation, Federal Flood Commission, Nespak and the foreign affairs ministry. The India side was led by its commissioner Pradeep Kumar Saxena.

9. EU cuts Russian banks from Swift system, bans RT, Sputnik

• The European Union on March 2, 2022 cut seven Russian banks from the Swift payment system and banned Kremlin-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik from broadcasting into the bloc.
• The measures, effective immediately, were the latest ratcheting up of the Western-coordinated sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
• `At the speed of light, the European Union has adopted three waves of heavy sanctions against Russia`s financial system, its high-tech industries and its corrupt elite,` European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement

10. Ukraine pushes Afghanistan out of US political discourse

• US President Joe Biden made only two references to Afghanistan in his state of the union address on Tuesday night, that too in reference to the diseases American soldiers caught while stationed there.
• `Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan faced many dangers.
• One was stationed at bases and breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits that incinerated wastes of war -medical and hazard material, jet fuel, and more,` he said.
• `When they came home, many of the world`s fittest and best trained warriors were never the same

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