6. Govt lifts ban on import of raw materials
• The government has lifted a ban on the import of raw materials, intermediate goods and machinery for the industrial sector.
• A senior official in the commerce ministry told Dawn that a broader decision was taken and the ministry will soon work out the list of items that inadvertently fall in customs codes attracting ban under SRO598 issued on May 19.
• `We have received several complaints from industries, the official said.
• This is the second decision of the government when the first clarification was issued on May 25 in which the government lifted the ban on animal feeds and energy savers
7. Biden refuses to equip Ukraine with rockets that can reach Russia
• The United States will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach into Russia, President Joe Biden said on May 30, 2022, as Ukraine pushes for longer-range weapons system to help in its fight.
• Ukrainian officials have been asking allies for longer-range systems including the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS, that can fire a barrage of rockets hundreds of miles away.
• `We`re not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia,` Biden told reporters after arriving back at the White House after a weekend in Delaware.
8. IAEA accuses Iran of enriching uranium over `deal limit`
• The UN nuclear watchdog said on May 30, 2022 that it estimated Iran`s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in Tehran`s 2015 deal with world powers.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency said in its latest report on Iran`s nuclear programme that it `estimated that, as of May 15, 2022, Iran`s total enriched stockpile was 3,809.3 kilograms.` The limit in the 2015 deal was set at 300 kg (660 pounds) of a specific compound, the equivalent of 202.8 kg of uranium.
• The report also says that Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium to levels higher than the 3.67 percent limit in the deal
9. Russians enter outskirts of Ukraine city
• Russian troops have entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, according to the regional governor, who described fierce fighting on May 30, 2022 over the ruins of a city that has become the focus of Moscow`s offensive.
• The European Union has sought to make Moscow pay a heavy price for invading Ukraine, but leaders arriving for a summit acknowledged they were unlikely to pass a new round of sanctions yet, having failed to agree to ban imports of Russian oil.
• Russia has concentrated its firepower on the last major population centre still held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern Luhansk province, in a push to achieve one of President Vladimir Putin`s stated objectives after three months of war.
10. Ex-MNA Adnan Aurangzeb dies in road accident
• Former MNA Prince Miangul Adnan Aurangzeb alias Adnan Bacha died in a Haripur road accident on May 30, 2022.
• The deceased, 61, who was also the grandson of last ruler of the Swat state, was on way to Islamabad from Abbottabad when his car met the fatal accident. He died on the spot.
• Born in 1961, Mr Aurangzeb had an engineering degree in electronics. He got elected to the National Assembly from Swat on a Muslim League ticket in the 1997 elections.
• Mr Aurangzeb was the son of former governor of then NWFP and Balochistan Mian Mangal Aurangzeb; brother of dean surgeon of University of Peshawar Dr Mahmood Aurangzeb and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of Islamabad High Court
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