Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 31, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 31, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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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

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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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