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May 31, 2022: National / International Current Affairs
1. Alvi concedes, Baligh becomes Punjab governor
• After a 24-day tussle and an exchange of many a summary between the president and prime minister, Dr Arif Alvi finally relented and signed off on the appointment of PML-N loyalist Balighur Rehman as the governor of Punjab, also paving the way for the formation of a provincial cabinet that was on hold for around a month since the embattled chief minister took oath of office.
• In a late-night development, eight lawmakers also took oath as members of the Punjab cabinet.
• Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has been running the provincial government all by himself for the last one month and his focus during the period was postings and transfers of civil and police bureaucracy rather than governance. In his short stint in office, Hamza has posted over 300 bureaucrats who have shown an inclination towards the party of the Sharifs, allegedly in consultation with his father Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
2. Indus water talks begin in Delhi
• India and Pakistan began their mandatory talks over the 1960 Indus Water Treaty here on May 30, 2022. The talks began as propitious news came in of the monsoons arriving in Kerala ahead of time. Pakistan side is led by its Indus Water Commissioner Mehr Ali Shah. India is being represented by its Water Commissioner AK Pal.
• The Pakistani delegation had crossed over from Wagah-Attari border on Sunday.
• Speaking to WION TV, Mr Shah described the visit as a routine one.
• `The talks are a part of treaty obligation that we have to fulfill under the Indus Water Treaty. It is a continuous process. So, it should continue, but in a meaningful manner. In this way, we can resolve issues bilaterally. It also depends on the Indian side on how they respond
3. Punjab AGP Ahmad Awais resigns
• Advocate General of Punjab (AGP) Ahmad Awais on May 30, 2022 tendered his resignation after the president of Pakistan approved the appointment of Balighur Rehman as new governor of Punjab.
• Sources in the government said the name of senior lawyer Shahzad Shaukat had been finalised for the new principal law officer of the government.
• Mr Awais had refused to quit the office and also approached the Lahore High Court against the provincial government for stopping him from working.
• The AGP had taken a plea that the office of advocate general was a constitutional post and he was supposed to hold office during the pleasure of the governor
4. Senate condemns Israeli action amid demand for ban on NGO
• The Senate on May 30, 2022 condemned the Israeli forces action against innocent Palestinians in Al-Aqsa mosque compound and Pakistan Television (PTV) terminated the services of an anchorperson who recently visited Israel.
• The controversy about the recent visit to Isreal was raised in the upper house of parliament by Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed who demanded that the nationality of those expatriates of Pakistani origin who travelled to Israel be cancelled and the NGO that facilitated their visit be banned.
• He said the visit of Ahmed Qureshi, working for state-run TV as part of the delegation, raised many questions and sought to know under which authority and on which travel documents he undertook the visit.
5. Leaders at Geneva moot urge urgent action to eradicate polio
• Global public health leaders, who gathered at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, have called for urgent action to eradicate polio once and for all.
• Delegates at the recently-held World Health Assembly concluded that right now a `window of opportunity` existed for taking an effective action against the poliovirus but cautioned that this opportunity will not remain open indefinitely. Their call came after experts pointed to recent concerning developments such as new cases confirmed in Pakistan, the first cases reported in fifteen months in southeast Africa and polio re-emergence in Ukraine and Israel.
• A press release issued by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on Monday says that recent efforts have had a clear impact on the global epidemiology of poliovirus, with endemic wild poliovirus transmission at extremely low levels, with just Pakistan and Afghanistan remaining endemic, and efforts to curb circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) bearing fruit
