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

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

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March 10, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Mosque attack handler among three killed in Khyber

• Law enforcement agencies have killed three suspected terrorists, including the main handler behind the gunand-suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Peshawar, during an operation in a remote area of Khyber district.
• Sixty-four worshippers lost their lives and more than 190 others were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest inside the Koocha Risaldar mosque on Friday last week. The militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Officials said personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department, police and intelligence agencies had raided a house in the Ghureza area of Jamrud tehsil late on Tuesday night. They said a terrorist present inside the house opened fire on law enforcement personnel

2. Alvi`s plea to set aside immunity accepted

• An antiterrorism court on March 09, 2022 accepted President Arif Alvi`s application surrendering the constitutional immunity in PTV building and Parliament House attack case and heard arguments of the prosecution that conceded that the FIR registered against him was politically motivated.
• ATC Judge Mohammad Ali Warraich adjourned further proceedings till March 15 when the court is expected to announce a verdict on a separate application by Mr Alvi seeking his acquittal in the 2014 case for want of evidence.
• The court did not proceed against President Alvi earlier due to constitutional immunity and separated his case owing to Article 248(2) of the Constitution that states: `No criminal proceeding whatsoever shall be instituted or continued against the President or a Governor in any court during term of office

3. Bill on right of appeal in suo motu cases cleare

• The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice passed a constitutional amendment bill on Wednesday, seeking to regulate the Supreme Court`s suo motu powers and provide the right of appeal against decisions taken under the jurisdiction.
• The committee, in a meeting presided over by its chairman Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, proposed that in Article 178 of the Constitution about the appointment of apex court judges, the criteria shall be based on seniority as well as merit so that the recent controversy surrounding Justice Ayesha Malik`s elevation to the Supreme Court should be laid to rest.
• However, the appointment of the chief justice should remain on seniority alone, the committee noted

4. Nisar Khuhro wins Senate election amid opposition boycott

• Pakistan Peoples Party`s Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on March 09, 2022 emerged victorious on a Senate seat from Sindh that fell vacant after the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf`s Faisal Vawda.
• Major opposition parties PTI, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Grand Democratic Alliance had already announced boycott of the polling process. Two smaller opposition parties, the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan and Muttahida Majlis-i-Aml, also did not turn up for voting.
• However, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah claimed that four disgruntled PTI members also voted for the PPP candidate. He did not name them, but some media reports identified them as Shaheryar Khan Shar, Kareem Bakhsh Gabool, Aslam Abro and Deewan Sachand.
• After the day-long polling in the Sindh Assembly and counting of votes, Sindh Election Commissioner Saeed Gul announced that total 101 MPAs exercised their right to vote on Senate general seat.

5. Dhaka trying to revive long-lost fabric meant for elite

• With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history.
• Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in European parlours held that a change in the light or a sudden rain shower would render its wearer apparently naked.
• The textile once brought magnificent riches to the lands where it was spun. But to revive it, botanists had to hunt halfway across the world and look for a plant believed gone from the face of the planet

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6. First pig heart transplant patient dies

• The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said on March 9, 2022.
• The procedure raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation, and the team behind the operation say they sull remain optimistic about its future success.
• David Bennett, 57, received his transplant on Jan 7 and passed away on March 8, the University of Maryland Medical System said in a statement

7. Israeli president visits Turkey to `restart` ties

• Israel`s president met Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on March 9, 2022, in the first visit by an Israeli head of state to Turkey since 2007, as the countries seek to mend fractured ties.
• President Isaac Herzog`s trip to the Turkish capital and Istanbul was planned weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict could feature at the talks, with both Israel and Turkey playing mediation roles in recent days.
• But bilateral issues may dominate following more than a decade of diplomatic rupture between the Jewish state and Turkey, which is a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause

8. UK finally confronts `Russian cash cow`

• From sanctions against oligarchs to an end to `golden visas`, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed the UK to tackle a system that has for decades courted Russian money sometimes of dubious origin.
• `It`s the end of an era,` Dominic Grieve, a lawyer and former Conservative MP who served as attorney general under prime minister David Cameron, said.
• Grieve denounced London`s complacency over the origin of huge sums of Russian money invested in the country in a 2020 report

9. Ukraine sees risk of radiation leak at Chernobyl

• Ukraine said on March 9, 2022 there was a danger of a radiation leak at the Chernobyl nuclear power station after electricity was cut of f to the plant, but the UN nuclear watchdog saw `no critical impact on security`.
• On the other hand, Russia`s defence ministry accused Ukrainian forces of attacking power lines and a substation feeding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what it said was a `dangerous provocation` news agency Interfax reported.
• Ukraine`s state-run nuclear company Energoatom said a high-voltage power line had been damaged during fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian forces who are occupying the defunct plant, and that it had been cut off from the national power grid

10. Shane Warne state funeral set for March 30 at MCG

• Home to many of famed Australian spin bowler Shane Warne`s greatest sports moments, the Melbourne Cricket Ground will host his public farewell on March 30.
• Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews on March 9, 2022 confirmed the MCG as the venue for a state memorial service to honor Warne, who died of a suspected heart attack last week in Thailand. He was 52.
• The family has announced it will hold a private funeral before the MCG service.
• `There`s nowhere in the world more appropriate to farewell Warnie than the `G`,` Andrews tweeted on Wednesday

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