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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (March 19, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (March 19, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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March 19, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PM turns down summary on governor`s rule

• The government ruled out the possibility of governor`s rule in Sindh on March 18, 2022 but said it will petition the Supreme Court to seek a ruling on whether PTI defectors could lose their seats ahead of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
• The prime minister has also called a meeting of the PTI political committee today(Saturday) to review the fast changing political situation in the country and contemplate the issue of PTI dissidents.
• Sources in Prime Minister Office told Dawn that Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed presented a summary regarding the imposition ofgovernor`s rule in Sindh during a PTI parliamentary committee meeting on Friday

2. Neutrality in Ukraine war to safeguard Pakistan`s interests: FO

• The Foreign Office on March 18, 2022 said Pakistan`s neutrality in Ukraine war was aimed at safeguarding its interests.
• At the weekly media briefing, FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar, while defending the government`s position on the Russia-Ukraine war, said it was `driven by the imperative of protecting the country`s vital interests`.
• He explained that the decision taken by the government in Ukraine`s case was because of its policy about not becoming part of bloc politics. `We have underlined that Pakistan will only be a partner in peace, not in conflict,` he further said.
• Pakistan has been emphasising on resolving the dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. It, moreover, abstained during voting in the United Nations General Assembly on a resolution calling on Russia to end the war

3. Next IMF tranche hangs in the balance

• While a staff mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised more questions over the financing of a relief package announced by the prime minister last month, Pakistan may not be able to draw the next tranche of the $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for over a month.
• In a televised address to the nation at the end of February, PM Imran Khan had announced a reduction ofRs10 per litre in petrol/diesel and Rs5 in electricity prices. He further claimed the rates would remain stable until the next federal budget.
• Official sources told that the IMF mission and Pakistani authorities remained engaged in discussions on the seventh review of the Fund programme, and decided to meet again on Monday. The sources said a final round of policy-level talks between Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and the Fund mission was being scheduled for Tuesday

4. Pakistan to recognise Taliban regime after regional consensus

• Pakistan will recognise the Taliban regime in Kabul when there`s a consensus, particularly of regional countries, on the issue, says Islamabad`s UN envoy Munir Akram.
• The question of recognition resurfaced on Thursday when the UN Security Council voted to establish formal ties with the Taliban-run Afghanistan without extending diplomatic recognition to the regime. Fourteen of the council`s 15 members voted for the resolution while Russia abstained.
• Russian Ambassador Vassily A. Nebenzia said he was compelled to abstain because attempts to secure consent from the host country for a UN presence were ignored

5. UNHCR donates equipment to Quetta hospital

• The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has donated a CT scan machine, oxygen plant, 400 KVA generator and solar panels to Fatima Jinnah General and Chest Hospital in Quetta.
• The CT scan machine will improve the diagnosis of chest and lungs diseases and it will also help in the research work of the hospital.
• UNHCR Pakistan`s Deputy Representative Tammi Sharpe, Head of UNHCR in Quetta Erwin Dela Cruz Policar and Balochistan Minister for Health Syed Ehsan Shah were present at the ceremony to hand over the equipment.

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6. Asaan Karobar launched

• President Arif Alvi on March 18, 2022 launched the Asaan Karobar Programme saying innovative strategies by incorporating digital technology was essential to ensuring sustainable business activities especially to lessen the compliance burden on businesses particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
• Addressing the ceremony, President Alvi said the prime interest of a country is to promote business activities and emphasised the importance of taking stakeholders on board for a successful policy formulation.
• He congratulated the Board of Investment (BoI) for establishing an online portal to identify regulatory bottlenecks and issues with the involvement of private sector and business associations

7. Sri Lanka secures Indian lifeline as IMF signals help

• Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has secured a billion-dollar credit line from India to buy urgently needed food and medicine, officials said on March 18, 2022, as the IMF confirmed it would discuss a possible bailout.
• The South Asian nation is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, with crippling shortages of essentials and fears it will default on its foreign debt or ask bondholders to take a `haircut` on repayments.
• India and Sri Lanka formally entered into the credit agreement on Thursday during Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa`s visit to New Delhi, Treasury Secretary Sajith Attygalle told reporters in Colombo

8. Finland judged world`s happiest nation, Afghans unhappiest

• Finland has been named the world`s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsore d index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon.
• The latest list was completed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia recorded the biggest boosts in wellbeing. The largest falls in the World Happiness table, released on Friday, came in Lebanon, Venezuela and Afghanistan.
• Lebanon, which is facing economic meltdown, fell to second from last on the index of 146 countries, just below Zimbabwe.
• War-scarred Afghanistan, already bottom of the table last year, saw its humanitarian crisis deepen since the Taliban returned to power last August following the pull-out of US-led troops

9. Iran converts uranium into material crucial for detecting cancer

• Iran has converted a fraction of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium into material crucial for detecting cancers and other diseases, the UN nuclear watchdog and an Iranian media report said on March 18, 2022.
• Iran`s decision to convert the uranium takes it out of a form that can potentially be further refined into weapons grade levels. The development comes as talks in Vienna over restoring Tehran`s nuclear deal with world powers hang in the balance.
• In a statement on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran had used 2.1 kilograms of its 60 per cent enriched uranium to produce so-called `highly enriched uranium targets` at a facility in Isfahan. Those targets will be irradiated at the Tehran Research Reactor and later used to produce molybdenum-99, the IAE A said

10. Massive moon rocket begins crawl to its launch pad

• Nasa`s massive new rocket eased onto its launchpad on March 18, 2022, ready for a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the moon this summer on an uncrewed flight.
• It left the Kennedy Space Center`s Vehicle Assembly Building Thursday evening and began a nearly 11-hour journey on a crawler transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, arriving at 4:15 am.
• Around 10,000 people had gathered to watch the event.
• With the Orion crew capsule fixed on top, the Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 stands 322 feet (98 meters) high taller than the Statue of Liberty, but a little smaller than the 363 feet Saturn V rockets that powered the Apollo missions to the moon.

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