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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 11, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 11, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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May 11, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Govt advises vigilance in view of new Covid variant

• On the directions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the federal and provincial health authorities as well as representatives of the army gathered on May 10, 2022 to discuss the situation emerging after the first case of a more transmissible variant of Covid-19 was detected in the country.
• The meeting created an impression that the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), which dealt with Covid-19 for two years, had been revived. Electronic media also reported the news, attributing it to the prime minister and the information minister.
• However, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) clarified that the Public Health Emergency Operation Centre at National Institute of Health (NIH) had already replaced the NCOC and will continue functioning till eradication of the pandemic

2. Resolution against president a non-starter in `friendly` NA

• Despite the absence of a full opposition bench, the government on May 10, 2022 failed to move a planned resolution in the National Assembly to `condemn` President Dr Arif Alvi for allegedly violating the Constitution by delaying and then rejecting the prime minister`s advice regarding the removal of the Punjab governor.
• However, a small opposition group managed to disrupt proceedings of the house by pointing out lack of quorum, forcing the chair to abruptly adjourn the sitting until Wednesday.
• The quorum problem was pointed out by Ghous Bux Mahar of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) when two federal ministers belonging to the ruling PML-N Ayaz Sadiq and Javed Latif had already delivered speeches after Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf allowed a debate on the president`s conduct

3. Level of Pakistan`s participation in UN food meeting still unclear

• The UN food security meeting that Pakistan has been invited to starts next week but it`s still not clear if Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will physically attend the meet.
• `He has both options, to be in New York for the meeting or address it virtually from Islamabad,` a diplomatic source told Dawn.
• A source at the Foreign Office in Islamabad said the foreign minister is likely to decide about his participation in a day or two. In the meantime, Mr Bhutto-Zardari and his close aides are holding consultations over the matter

4. Govt assures WB of reform push in upcoming budget

• Amid a rising fiscal deficit because of heavy fuel and energy subsidies, Pakistan on May 10, 2022 assured the World Bank (WB) it would push through reforms in the upcoming budget for fiscal consolidation to build economic resilience.
• The assurance was given by Minister of Finance Miftah Ismail to a WB delegation led by Hartwig Schafer, Vice President, South Asia Region, at the conclusion of a two-day visit during which they held meetings with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and ministers for planning and energy.
• Critical of the tariff subsidies at the rate of Rs5 per unit announced by former prime minister Imran Khan on February 28 in the middle of a political crisis, WB has been asking the authorities to withdraw or phase out the fresh subsidy package because the circular debt was estimated to increase by more than Rs500 billion during the current fiscal year.

5. Sindh cabinet approves draft law on e-tagging of habitual criminals

• The Sindh cabinet on May 10, 2022 took a decision with a majority vote on e-tagging of habitual criminals in view of an alarming surge in street crimes in the metropolis.
• The cabinet meeting, presided over by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, decided to allow afExing of an electronic device to the body of habitual offenders for effective monitoring of their movement. The decision was taken although some members of the cabinet opposed it, arguing that the measure was a violation of human rights.
• E-tagging is a tool of surveillance through the device and is proposed to be affixed to the body of a criminal or suspected criminal at large on bail or parole

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6. Parvez Elahi refuses to take over as acting governor

• The constitutional crisis in Punjab is far from over despite the Cabinet Division denotifying the governor, as Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has refused to take charge of acting governor after the removal of Omar Sarfraz Cheema.
• Even if Mr Elahi remains adamant, legal experts believe, Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari cannot assume the acting governor`s role.
• These developments could deprive Punjab of a governor for at least a week.
• On Saturday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had sent a summary to President Arif Alvi, recommending PML-N loyalist Balighur Rehman for the post of Punjab governor. If the president does not act on the premier`s advice within 10 days, Mr Rehman`s appointment will be notified

7. WHO terms China`s Covid strategy unsustainable

• China`s flagship zero Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organisation said on May 10, 2022, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.
• China has imposed draconian measures, trapping most of Shanghai`s 25 million people at home for weeks as the country combats its worst outbreak since the pandemic began.
• The Shanghai lockdown has caused outrage and rare protest in the last major economy still glued to a zero-Covid policy, while movement in the capital Beijing has been slowly restricted

8. Shoot-on-sight orders amid further unrest in Sri Lanka

• Sri Lankan authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders on May 10, 2022 to quell further unrest a day after the island was rocked by deadly violence and rioting.
• With thousands of security forces enforcing a curfew, the defence ministry said troops `have been ordered to shoot on sight anyone looting public property or causing harm to life` On Monday, government supporters attacked with sticks and clubs demonstrators in Colombo protesting peacefully for weeks over a dire economic crisis and demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
• Mobs then retaliated across the country late into the night, torching dozens of homes of ruling-party politicians and trying to storm the prime minister`s official residence in the capital.

9. Unmanned Chinese spacecraft docks with space station module

• An unmanned Chinese cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on May 10, 2022 in the sixth of 11 missions needed to finish building China`s first space station by the end of the year.
• A Long March-7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-4 spacecraft blasted off at 1:56 a.m. Beijing time (1756 GMT Monday) from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern Hainan province.
• Tianzhou-4 docked with Tianhe, the core module of the space station, at 8:54 a.m.
• Beijing time (0054 GMT), China Manned Space Agency said on Tuesday

10. Satellite images raise prospect of new class of Chinese submarine

• Military analysts say a vessel spotted in a Chinese shipyard in rare, recent satellite images could be a new or upgraded class of nuclear-powered attack submarine.
• It is not clear whether the submarine is a new model, an upgrade of an existing vessel or something else. But diplomats and analysts have been watching closely after a Pentagon report in November said the Chinese navy was likely in the next few years to build a new attack submarine with vertical launch tubes for cruise missiles.

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