Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 14, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Record $3.1bn remittances sent in April

• For the first time, remittances crossed the figure of $3 billion in a month, which gave hope that the country would achieve its annual remittance target of $30bn.
• The State Bank of Pakistan reported on May 13, 2022 that the country received $3.1bn remittances for April, registering an increase of 12pc compared to the $2.79bn received in the same month of FY21.
• The country is currently facing a serious shortage of dollars as the outflows for debt servicing and trade deficit have shattered the country`s reserves. Since August 2021, the State Bank`s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by half

7. Multiple passport holders get seven-month amnesty

• The government has approved yet another amnesty scheme for holders of multiple passports which allows them to get their additional passports canceled and avoid a jail term under the law.
• Informed sources told Dawn that under the seventh amnesty scheme, the holders of more than one passport have been given a little over seven months to either set things right or be ready to face the music.
• Information Minister Marriyum Aurengzeb confirmed that a summary to this effect had been approved by the federal cabinet on May 10. She said the scheme would remain in force till December 31

8. Israeli police attack slain journalist`s pallbearers

• Israeli police officers on May 13, 2022 beat mourners, friends and family members carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, before a sea of thousands led her casket through Jerusalem`s old quarter in an outpouring of grief and anger over her killing.
• Packed around Abu Akleh`s coffin, Palestinians, some waving the nation`s flags and chanting `with our soul and blood we will redeem you Shireen` began walking toward the gates of St Joseph`s Hospital.
• Israeli police, in an apparent bid to stop them proceeding by foot rather than taking the coffin by car, burst through the courtyard gates and charged at the crowd, some beating pallbearers with batons and kicking them

9. Erdogan opposes Finland, Sweden`s entry into Nato

• President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was not possible for Nato-member Turkey to support plans by Sweden and Finland to join the pact given that the Nordic countries were `home to many terrorist organisations` Though Turkey has officially supported Nato enlargement since it joined the US-led alliance 70 years ago, its opposition could pose a problem for Sweden and Finland given new members need unanimous agreement.
• Turkey has repeatedly slammed Sweden and other Western European countries for its handling of organisations deemed terrorist by Ankara, including the Kurdish militant groups PKK and YPG, and the followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. Ankara says Gulenists carried out a coup attempt in 2016. Gulen and his supporters deny the accusation

10. President Sheikh Khalifa a private figure in booming UAE

• President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who died on May 13, 2022, was a reserved figure who saw the United Arab Emirates skyrocket on the global scene but rarely appeared in public himself.
• Sheilch Khalifa, who died at the age of 73, succeeded his father, the late UAE founding president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, as ruler of Abu Dhabi, the largest and wealthiest of the seven-member UAE.
• According to APP, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while describing the demise of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa as `a tremendous loss`, said Pakistan has lost a true friend and trusted partner.
• Pakistan has decided to observe a three-day national mourning (from May 13 to May 15) on the sad demise of President Sheikh Khalifa, according to a notification issued by Cabinet Division