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Day by Day Current Affairs (November 08 2019) | MCQs for CSS, PMS

November 8, 2019
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Day by Day Current Affairs (November 08 2019) | MCQs for CSS, PMS
Written by Shahzad F. Malik
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November 08, 2019: National Current Affairs

1. National Assembly passed 11 presidential ordinances within half an hour

• In a controversial move, the National Assembly on November 7, 2019 passed 11 presidential ordinances within half an hour amid ruckus by opposition members.
• The session of the lower house of parliament started after Prime Minister Imran Khan held a meeting of the parliamentary committee of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Parliament House, directing the party legislators to get all the bills passed, especially the one aimed at replacing the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) with the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC). The prime minister remained in his chamber in Parliament House till the session of the lower house was adjourned till 11am on Friday.
• Interestingly, Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri got the 11 ordinances passed in such haste that no time was given to legislators to hold a proper debate on them. He turned a deaf ear to the opposition members belong-ing to all main opposition parties Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Jamiat Ulema-iIslam-Fazl (JUI-F) and others who tore up copies of the bills, threw them towards the deputy speaker and converged on the speaker`s dais

2. No relaxation, no waivers as IMF concludes review

• Concluding the first quarterly review on a successful note, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government to definitely achieve the revenue target, keep a cap on issuing new guarantees and put into effective implementation the circular debt reduction strategy.
• `The talks with the visiting mission have been highly successful,` the `government did not ask for a waiver, it was not required.
• IMF`s country representative in Islamabad Teresa Daban Sanchez declined to comment when approached.

3. FIA declares emergency over FATF-related cases

• The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has declared an emergency regarding cases related to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
• A meeting, headed by the director general at FIA headquarters, decided to investigate FATF-related cases on an emergency basis. The agency`s head reviewed legal procedure taken over the se cases and progress in the investigations so far, they said.
• According to sources, money laundering and terror unancing cases are related to the FATF. These involve the bank accounts of proscribed organisations, bank transactions by these organisations, fundraising activities and the resources of fundraising and donations.

4. Facebook to launch digital literacy programmes in Pakistan next year

• Although Pakistan is among countries where most content is restricted on Facebook, cases of harassment remain under-reported due to a lack of public awareness on reporting mechanisms.
• Speakers at an awareness talk held on November 7, 2019 said that the use of social media platforms was becoming increasingly restrictive for women and the challenge to ensure safety and protect the rights of social media community members was growing.
• The talk titled `Creating Safe Online Spaces: safety for women` was organised by Facebook to highlight its efforts to eradicate content targeting women and children.

5. UNHCR donates vaccine storage facility to govt

• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has donated a modern vaccine storage facility to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to cater to its needs.
• An official statement issued here said the facility, which had the capacity to store large amounts of vaccines, would benefit one million children and one million women of child-bearing age.
• The cold chain warehouse was inaugurated here on Thursday during a special ceremony, where UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations George Okoth-Obbo, Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions Shehryar Khan Afridi, provincial health minister Dr Hisham Inamullah Khan and relevant officials were in attendance.
• The UN refugee agency had signed a memorandum of understanding with the health department last year to strengthen immunisation services.

6. Congolese warlord gets longest-ever ICC sentence

• A Congolese rebel chief nicknamed the Terminator received a 30-year jail term from the International Criminal Court on November 7, 2019 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the longest ever sentence given out by the tribunal.
• Bosco Ntaganda was convicted in July of offences including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers in a mineral-rich region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the early 2000s.
• Most of the charges against Rwandan-born Ntaganda, 46, related to a series of gruesome massacres of villagers carried out by his fighters.
• `Murder was committed on a large scale,` presiding judge Robert Flemr said, adding that the Haguebased court had taken the `particular cruelty` of some of Ntaganda`s actions into account. `The overall sentence imposed on you shall therefore be 30 years of imprisonment.

7. Fear of encirclement shapes Pakistan`s policy: US report

• India`s growing influence in Afghanistan compounds Pakistan`s fear of encirclement and plays a key role in shaping its Afghan policy, says an official US report.
• `Pakistan`s security establishment, fearful of strategic encirclement by India, apparently continues to view the Afghan Taliban as a relatively friendly and reliably antiIndia element in Afghanistan,` the report adds.
• The report, prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and sent to American lawmakers this week, however, acknowledges that Pakistan remains the most important external player in Afghanistan

8. Escape tunnel underneath Berlin Wall opens to public

• AN escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on November 7, 2019 for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany`s border.
• The tunnel at Bernauer Strasse, near the city`s main Wall memorial, was opened by Mayor Michael Mueller. He thanked those who started digging the 100-metre tunnel in late 1970; nine years after East Germany sealed its border. `It`s great to see that the battle for freedom was also taken underground, Mueller said before he took a tour of the new exhibit. `One can authentically experience … the courage of the women and men who tried to take people to freedom and resisted the East German regime,` he added.
• The tunnel was built by a group of people who had escaped earlier to West Berlin. They wanted to help friends and family to flee to the West but, days before it was finished, somebody informed East German officials about it. East German authorities then found the tunnel by using ultrasound tracking and partially destroyed it. Built in 1961, the Wall stood at the front line of the Cold War.

9. Iran resumes uranium enrichment in new step back from nuclear deal

• Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground For dow plant south of Tehran on November 7, 2019 in a new step back from its commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, raising alarm from Western powers.
• Engineers began feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into the plant`s mothballed enrichment centrifuges in `the first minutes of Thursday`, the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said.
• The suspension of uranium enrichment at the long-secret plant was one of the restrictions on its nuclear programme Iran had agreed to in return for the lifting of sanctions.

10. Two ex-IPL players held in spot-fixing scandal

• Two former Indian Premier League (IPL) players have been arrested for spot-fixing in a scandal-ridden regional tournament, police said on November 7, 2019.
• Wicket-keeper/batsman C.M. Gautam and Abrar Kazi were arrested in Bangalore by a special unit investigating corruption and fixing in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL).
• Gautam, the 33-year-old former captain of Bellary Tuskers, and team-mate Kazi allegedly accepted $28,000 each for `slow batting` in this year`s tournament final against Hubli Tigers. The Tuskers lost the game by eight runs.

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