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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Nov 16 2022) for CSS

November 16, 2022
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6. Lahore`s top cop given charge of Wazirabad investigation

• Confusion appears to be the order of the day for the Punjab government after it reconstituted for a fourth time the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe into the assassination bid on former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Wazirabad.
• On November 15, 2022, the provincial government appointed Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar as the team`s head. Interestingly, the of ficer is currently in the midst of a tussle between Punjab and the Centre, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had suspended him on Nov 5 for allegedly not complying with transfer orders issued by the Establishment Division, Islamabad, while Mr Dogar refuses to relinquish the charge of his office.
• Since a first information report (FIR) of the Wazirabad incident was registered, members of the investigation team have been repeatedly replaced, purportedly owing to a lack of consensus between the PML-Q and PTI the ruling allies in Punjab.
• Police experts call these frequent changes a violation of Article 18(6) of the Police Order 2002, saying the rules clearly define the procedure for changing an investigation team and the government`s actions could be challenged in court

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7. LHC declares unadjustable, advance income tax `unlawful`

• The Lahore High Court has ruled that the collection of an `unadjustable, advance` income tax from a person not liable to pay income tax or file income tax returns i s unconstitutional.
• However, Justice Shahid Jamil Khan while exercising judicial restraint referred the matter to the attorney general of Pakistan and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for suitable amendments in the law within 90 days.
• The judge passed the ruling allowing dozens of petitions assailing the amendment in Section 236D of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 brought through the Finance Act, 2018, whereby minimum slab for collection of the advance tax was fixed at Rs20,000, which was to be collected from a person receiving services of or holding/arranging function in a marriage hall, irrespective of the fact, whether the person was liable to file income tax returns

8. European Union supports COP27 call to phase down all fossil fuels

• The European Union supports a call by India to phase down fossil fuel use as part of a COP27 deal, the bloc`s climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said on November 15, 2022, provided it does not weaken previous agreements on reducing the use of coal.
• India wants countries to agree to phase down all fossil fuels at the UN climate summit in Egypt, rather than a narrower deal to phase down coal that was agreed at COP26 last year.
• `We are in support of any call to phase down all fossil fuels, Timmermans told a news conference.
• `But we also have to make sure that this call does not diminish the earlier agreements we had on phasing down coal, so if it comes on top of what we already agreed in Glasgow, then the EU will support in this proposal. India was among the countries resistant to efforts to eliminate coal at last year`s climate talks in Glasgow when the final deal at the last minute dropped wording calling for a phase out of coal fired power, replacing it with phase down

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9. Bid to condemn Russian invasion divides G20

• Disagreement emerged at a Group of 20 (G20) summit on November 15, 2022 as the United States and its allies backed a resolution condemning Russia`s invasionof Ukraine, which Russia`s foreign minister dismissed as unwarranted politicisation.
• The summit on the Indonesian island of Bali is the first G20 leaders` meeting since Russia sent its troops into Ukraine in February.
• The war, which Russia has described as a `special military operation`, has overshadowed the meeting despite calls from host Indonesia for unity and a focus on action to resolve global economic problems like inflation, and food and energy security.
• `Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy,` a 16-page draft declaration said, according to a copy

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10. Veteran journalist Irshad Rao passes away

• Senior journalist Irshad Rao, a vocal voice against Ziaul Haq`s dictatorship, passed away in Islamabad after a short illness. He was 76.
• He was laid to rest in the H-11 graveyard. Mr Rao was a renowned journalist with decades of experience spanning in local and international media.
• He was the editor of Al-Fatah, a revolutionary publication that defined the democracy narrative.
• According to his daughter Maliha Safiullah, Al-Fatah was banned nine times during Gen Zia`s regime but every time, it was out in the market with a new name, until Mr Rao was arrested and tortured in a military cell

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