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May 17, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Kharadar blast claims woman`s life, leaves 12 injured

• In a third blast in as many weeks, a woman died and at least 12 people sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a motorbike went off near Boutlan Market in Kharadar late on May 16, 2022 night, officials and witnesses said.
• A police van passing through the famed Kaghzi Bazaar near Boulton Market was apparently the target of the blast that claimed the life of a young woman travelling in a rickshaw and left a dozen others, including a police officer and an eight year-old boy, wounded.
• The police vehicle and a few other vehicles, including two-wheelers and a three wheeler, were damaged in the blast that also triggered a fire, showed video clips aired by some TV channels soon after the IED blast that took place at 9.50pm

2. Pakistan, US resume efforts to rebuild ties

• Pakistan and the United States resume their efforts to rebuild bilateral ties with a series of meetings between their foreign policy chiefs in New York this week.
• Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari reaches New York on Tuesday (May 16, 2022) to attend a US-initiated UN meeting on food security and for a bilateral meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
• Mr Blinken had invited Mr Bhutto-Zardari for the ministerial meeting on `Global Food Security Call to Action` that is being held on May 18

3. National polio drive announced after detection of three cases

• As three cases of polio have been reported after a gap of 15 months, the national polio programme has decided to launch a campaign across the country to boost the immunity level of 43.3 million children up to the age of five years.
• Moreover, considering a massive movement across the Afghan border, it has been decided to synchronise the campaign with Afghanistan. Earlier, the campaign had to be held at sub-national level or in selected union councils but after detection of the recent cases it has been decided to conduct it across the country.
• Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Abdul Qadir Patel on May 16, 2022 said the government was committed to eradicating the virus and will take all possible steps to achieve the target

4. OIC slams Delhi over bids to redraw poll boundaries in IHK

• The general secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed deep concern over India`s attempts to redraw the electoral boundaries of India-held Kashmir (IHK) altering the demographic structure of the territory and violating the rights of the Kashmiri people.
• The delimitation exercises are in direct contravention of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and international law, including the 4th Geneva Convention.
• It urged the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, to take immediate cognisance of the grave implications of such delimitation exercises

5. Macron names first French woman PM in over 30 years

• President Emmanuel Macron on May 16, 2022 named Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as his new prime minister, the first woman to head the French government in over 30 years, the Elysee said in a statement.
• Outgoing French Prime Minister Jean Castex earlier handed his resignation to the president, part of a widely expected reshuffle to make way for a new government in the wake of Macron`s re-election in April.
• The departure of Castex, who was a surprise choice for the role in 2020, enables Macron to reshape the cabinet ahead of crucial parliamentary polls in June

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6. Putin warns Finland, Sweden of `response` over Nato bid

• Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Finland and Sweden on May 16, 2022 to expect a `response` for applying to join Nato as Ukraine braced for a new push by Moscow`s forces in its eastern Donbas region.
• Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on May 16, 2022 confirmed her country would apply to join the military alliance, the day after Finland which shares a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia said the same.
• The two Nordic countries are poised to give up decades of military non-alignment over fears they could be next in line following Moscow`s invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24

7. Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol

• Sri Lanka`s new prime minister said on May 16, 2022 the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country`s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.
• Ranil Wickreme singhe, appointed prime minister on Thursday, said in an address to the nation the country urgently needed $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports.
• `At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day. The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives,` he said

8. Indian court prohibits large prayer gatherings at mosque

• A court in north India on May 16, 2022 ordered authorities to limit large Muslim prayer gatherings in the historic Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi after a survey team found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there, lawyers involved in the case said.
• Earlier this month, the court in Varanasi set up a team to survey the premises after five women sought permission to perform Hindu rituals in one of its quarters saying that a Hindu temple once stood at the present mosque site.
• The Gyanvapi mosque, located in the political constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is one of the three large mosques in Uttar Pradesh. Prominent groups believe it was built after demolishing a historic temple

9. First commercial flight in six years leaves rebel-held Yemen capital

• The first commercial flight in nearly six years took off from Yemen`s rebel-held capital on May 16, 2022, a major step forward in a peace process that has provided rare relief from conflict.
• The Yemenia plane carrying 126passengers, including hospital patients needing treatment abroad and their relatives, took off from Sanaa for the Jordanian capital Amman just after 9am (0600 GMT).
• Before take-off, the plane with red and-blue tail livery taxied through an honour guard of two fire trucks spraying jets of water. It landed in Amman before 0900 GMT.

10. Abdul Joshi, Shehroze Kashif conquer two highest peaks

• Two Pakistani climbers separately summited the world`s highest peak, Mount Everest, and fourth highest, Lhotse, in Nepal on May 16, 2022 morning.
• Abdul Joshi from the Shimshal valley of Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan, who scaled the 8,849-metre Mount Everest, is part of a 13-member expedition team, led by Nepalese mountaineer Mingma Gyalje Sherpa (Mingma G). While 20-year-old Shehroze Kashif set the record for becoming the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit four highest peaks after scaling the 8,516m Lhotse.

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