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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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May 28, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Rs28bn relief package for country`s poorest

• Just a day after hiking fuel prices to meet the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a relief package worth Rs28 billion for the poorest segments of society, in a televised address to the nation on May 27, 2022.
• In his first address since assuming office, he said the government was taking tough decisions in view of national interest, and accused the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government of putting Pakistan`s economic and diplomatic standing on the line, simply to further their personal, political interests.
• Saying that global oil prices were through the roof and that the fuel crisis was affecting everyone from oil producing countries to the developed nations of the West, he claimed the previous government had announced a fuel and power subsidy for the sake of its own survival, the burden of which the national exchequer could not take

2. NAB, election reforms passed by Senate amid PTI protestations

• Pandemonium broke out in the upper house of parliament on May 27, 2022 when the Senate passed two crucial bills Elections (Amendment) Bill 2022 and National Accountability (Second Amendment) Bill amid strong opposition from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), a day after they sailed through the National Assembly.
• Torn-up copies of the agenda flew in the house as PTI lawmakers gathered near the Senate chairman`s podium when the first bill was moved. Chanting slogans against what they called `imported` government, they warned the move would deprive overseas Pakistanis of the voting right facility.
• However, Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, who is also leader of the house in Senate, made it clear that the overseas Pakistanis were not being deprived of their right to vote, rather the bill sought to empower the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ensure voting rights without compromising secrecy.

3. First woman to head Lahore police operations

• In a first, Punjab inspector general of police has appointed a woman police officer as senior superintendent (SSP) of Lahore`s operations wing, besides reshuffling six other officers.
• Dr Anoosh Masood Chaudhry has been appointed head of the Lahore operations police vice Mustansar Feroz, who has been directed to report to the Central Police Office (CPO) for further order.
• Dr Anoosh is the first woman police officer posted as SSP Operations Lahore. She has served in Lahore as SP in Cantonment and Model Town police divisions, besides serving as an assistant superintendent (ASP)

4. Balochistan set to hold LG polls tomorrow

• After a lapse of almost three-and-a-half years from their scheduled time, the local government elections are going to be held in 32 out of 34 districts of Balochistan on Sunday (May 29, 2022).
• The provincial election commission has finalised all arrangements in this regard and 16,195 male and female candidates are set to take part in the elections.
• For the first time in the province, as many as 132 female candidates are contesting directly on general seats where they are facing male candidates. Most female candidates belong to the Sibi district

5. Pakistan reports two more polio cases

• The country reported two more cases of polio, taking the total to six this year. All cases have been reported from the North Waziristan tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid fears that more cases may come as viral circulation is expected to be higher from May to September.
• The two victims paralysed for the rest of their lives are an 18-month-old boy and a girl of the same age. Both cases were detected in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
• An expert said that as Pakistan focused on Covid19 during the last two years, it held few polio campaigns and ignored pockets of refusal, which allowed the poliovirus to bounce back

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6. G7 wants Opec to play role in easing energy supplies

• Ministers from the Group of Seven countries on Friday called on Opec to act responsibly to ease a global energy crunch brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as they announced a breakthrough commitment to phase out coal-fuelled power.
• The call, made at the end of three-day talks in Berlin focused on climate change, underscored that the world`s major economies were grappling with how to contain inflation and higher energy prices while sticking to environmental goals.
• OPEC and its allies, a group known as Opec+, has so far rebuffed Western calls for a faster increase in oil production to lower surging prices

7. UNSC split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on North Korea

• A decision by China and Russia to veto new United Nations sanctions on North Korea pushed by the United States shattered any veneer of global cooperation, straining efforts to pressure Pyongyang as it prepares to conduct a new nuclear test.
• The two countries on Thursday vetoed a US-led push to impose more UN sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches, publicly splitting the UN Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyangin2006.
• US officials slammed it as a `sharp departure from the Council`s track record of collective action on this issue`

8. Russian forces close in on key Ukraine city in east

• Russian troops were moving in on the strategic city of Severodonetsk on May 27, 2022 in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine`s eastern Donbas region, bombing residential areas and claiming the capture of a key town.
• At least nine people were killed a day earlier in shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine`s second-largest city, raising fears that Russia had not lost interest in the northeastern hub even after Ukraine managed to take back control.
• Around 10 people were also killed in Russian strikes on a military facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, well away f rom the frontline of the of fensive, the regional head of the national guard said.

9. G7 nations vow to stop fossil-fuel financing abroad by end of year

• Japan for the first time has joined fellow members of the Group of Seven industrialised nations in pledging to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of the year to help combat global warming.
• `We commit to end new direct public support for the international unabated fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022,` G7 energy and climate ministers said in a joint statement following talks in Berlin on Friday.
• The term `unabated` refers to projects that do not employ techniques to offset some of the pollution caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

10. Mountaineering community mourns demise of `humble master`

• Legendary mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara passed away on May 27, 2022 morning at a hospital where he was under treatment for the critical injuries he had sustained over 10 days ago. He was 56.
• His funeral prayers were offered in the Olding village of the city here and attended by a large number of people from all walks of life. He was buried in his native graveyard in Skardu. Fellow climbers, politicians, the army chief and the civil society expressed condolences with his family and called Sadoara`s passine `ag reat loss for Pakistan`.
• On May 17, the veteran mountaineer had suffered serious injuries when he slipped off a cliff and fell into a ditch

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