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Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 07, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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May 07, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. In first contact, Blinken invites Bilawal to US

• Top-level contacts between Pakistan and the US recommenced on May 6, 2022 as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and invited him to a food security meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on May 18.
• The two-day ministerial conference will focus on the threat to global food security, triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and will be chaired by Mr Blinken himself.
• Such encouraging statements were rare during the PTI regime and the phone call to Mr Bhutto Zardari was the first contact between the foreign ministers of the two countries in quite a while.
• On Sept 24, 2021, then-FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi met Secretary Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York

2. FIA told to crack down on defamatory social media content

• Within a few hours after PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz lodged a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against fake and objectionable photos of her floating on social media, the federal government sprang into action and announced a crackdown on elements involved in defaming people by disseminating obscene and immoral videos and strict directives were issued by the Interior Ministry to the agency in this regard.
• Interestingly, even the PML-N leader expressed concerns that she was waiting for action over the malicious social media campaign against her. In a tweet posted on Thursday, Ms Nawaz said she had reported the matter to the authorities and was waiting for action.
• The visibly photoshopped images and videos have been shared by some prominent Twitter accounts as well as some newly created ones

3. Six-day work week, reduced timings notified

• The federal government did not restore the Saturday weekly off despite protests by employees, sticking to the six-day routine, but notified new reduced working hours.
• On the other hand, confusion over the new work schedule prevailed in the corporate sector, autonomous bodies and even banks.
• According to a notification issued by the Establishment Division, government offices will remain open from 8am to 3pm with a 30-minute break at 1pm whereas the timings on Friday will be 8am to 1pm.
• Earlier, the timings were 9am to 5pm with two weekly holidays on Saturday and Sunday.
• After assuming office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif abolished Saturday off, but kept the working hours unchanged from 9am to 5pm.

4. AJK PM rejects Indian move to redraw electoral map in IIOJK

• Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas has termed the delimitation commission report to redraw electoral map of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK)as the fascist Indian government`s another move to further marginalize the majority Muslim population of the occupied territory.
• He urged the international community in general and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in particular to take immediate stock of the BJP led Indian government`s neo-fascism that he said was aimed at giving a `legal cover` to its anti-UNSC resolutions move of August 5, 2019 through installation of a Hindu chief minister in the Muslim majority region. `If the international community had any doubt about India`s ill intentions in the past, this report has let the cat out of the bag.
• `This has completely exposed India`s anti-Kashmiri and anti-Muslim mindset,` said the AJK premier in a brief conversation with a group of journalists before leaving for Islamabad

5. ADB okays $18bn ceiling for lending

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a ceiling of up to $18 billion in Policy-Based Lending (PBL) between 2022 and 2024 and enhanced its crisis-response instruments to support its developing member countries as they pursue a green, resilient and inclusive recovery.
• Expanded PBL commitments will support developing member countries to undertake critical policy reforms and to address gaps in their development financing requirements.
• The ADB has announced that in order to maximise development impact, it has also introduced measures to enhance PBL quality and strengthen oversight by the board of directors.

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6. July-April trade gap nears $40bn

• The country`s trade deficit jumped by an all-time high of 65 per cent year-on-year to $39.3 billion during the 10 months through April on the back of higher than-expected imports, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data showed on Friday.
• The trade deficit has been on the rise owing to an unprecedented increase in imports due to a rise in global commodities prices, while exports stagnated at around $2.5bn to $2.8bn a month, mostly those of semi-finished products and raw materials.
• In April, the trade deficit came in at $3.74bn, growing by around 2.7pc over March and by 24pc compared to April 2021

7. Conservatives lose key councils in UK elections

• Prime Minister Boris Johnson`s Conservative party lost control of key councils in London, according to partial results from local and regional UK elections on Friday, with a potentially historic change looming in Northern Ireland.
• The main UK opposition Labour party of Keir Starmer won in long-term Conservative strongholds in the capital, including Margaret Thatcher`s `favourite` council Wandsworth, and Westminster for the first time since it was created in 1964.
• Just over half of votes for councils in England have been counted. Results from the remainder, as well as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are expected throughout the day

8. S. Africa launches biggest hydrogen-fuelled truck

• Mining giant Anglo American on May 6, 2022 unveiled the world`s largest hydrogen-powered truck, a monster weighing in at 220 tonnes, at a platinum mine in northern South Africa.
• Billed as the first of a fleet that will replace the firm`s diesel-powered trucks, the vehicle uses two-megawatt hydrogen fuel cells to haul up to 290 tonnes of ore.
• `What we are launching is not merely an impressive piece of machinery, it is the genesis of an entire ecosystem powered by hydrogen,` President Cyril Ramaphosa said

9. White House to have first Black press secretary

• US President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre as the next White House press secretary, the first Black person to hold the high-profile post.
• Jean-Pierre, who will also be the first openly LGBTQ+ person in the role, will replace Jen Psaki, under whom she served as deputy, from May 13.
• Biden in a statement praised Jean Pierre`s `experience, talent and integrity, saying he was `proud` to announce her appointment. The outgoing spokeswoman, bringing Jean-Pierre behind the podium for the traditional briefing of accredited journalists at the White House on Thursday, praised, in a voice sometimes choked with emotion, the qualities of her deputy, whom she hugged several times

10. Saudi-led coalition to free Yemen rebels in peace gesture

• The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Yemen`s Houthi insurgents said on May 6, 2022 it was freeing a batch of rebel prisoners, part of what it describes as efforts to end the seven-year war.
• Last week, the coalition said it would release 163 prisoners it accused of participating in `hostilities` against Saudi Arabia.
• The official Saudi Press Agency said on Twitter that the process had begun, adding that there would be `three stages of air transport of prisoners` to Yemen`s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa and the southern port city of Aden

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