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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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October 05, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. `Coalition of willing` asked to step up for flood aid

• Pakistan is out of money to spend on recovery from recent devastating floods, Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman stressed on October 4, 2022, urging immediate international help at the UN launch of an aid appeal as the country`s funding needs were revised up by more than five times.
• The United Nations increased its aid appeal from $160 million to $816m as rising waterborne diseases and fear of growing hunger pose new risks after weeks of unprecedented nooding blamed on climate change.
• `We have no space to give our economy any stimulus, Ms Rehman, who led the Pakistan delegation, told the conference in Geneva aimed at seeking aid for Pakistan

2. Seven terrorists killed in KP operations: ISPR

• Over half a dozen terrorists were gunned down in a single day in two districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on October 4, 2022.
• Four terrorists were killed in Tank district and three others on the outskirts of capital Peshawar, where two soldiers embraced martyrdom during operations on Monday night.
• The military`s public relations wing, Inter-Services Public Relations, said two security personnel were martyred and three terrorists were killed in a clash between security forces and terrorists in Hassan Khel area, on the outskirts of Peshawar.
• The ISPR said the clash had started after the terrorists attacked a military convoy in Hassan Khel area, located on the southern fringes of the provincial capital

3. US cannot walk away from Pakistan: report

• The United States and Pakistan need to rebuild a modest but pragmatic relationship, based on mutual respect for each other`s interests, and not on exaggerated expectations, says a report released on October 4, 2022.
• The report, prepared by a dozen American scholars of South Asian affairs associated with the Pakistan Study Group (PSG), Washington, has been released a day before Pakistan`s Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa is expected to meet US scholars and think tank experts at the Pakistan Embassy.
• The paper warns American policy makers that they cannot afford to walk away from a country that involves three key regions South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East and has borders with China and Iran and is close to Russia

4. President to address joint sitting tomorrow

• President Arif Alvi has summoned joint session of the parliament on October 6 (tomorrow) to address both houses Senate and National Assembly.
• According to a notification issued by the President House, the session has been called in line with articles 54(1) and 56(3) of the Constitution.
• The president has summoned the session on the recommendation of the federal government, it adde d.
• The mandatory address of the president to the joint sitting of the parliament became due since the start of the National Assembly`s parliamentary year on August 14

5. PIA`s newly inducted aircraft makes maiden flight

• The newly inducted Airbus A320 aircraft in Pakistan International Airlines` (PIA) fleet has become operational after it made its inaugural flight from Islamabad to Karachi on Tuesday.
• PK-369 with 166 passengers onboard departed at 4pm from Islamabad International Airport.
• PIA`s spokesperson said the aircraft, with registration number AP-BMV, was equipped with new seats and a modern cabin. He added that the aircraft had been acquired on dry lease for six years as the PIA aimed to provide comfortable travel and best facilities to its passengers. With this addition, the PIA now has 32 aircraft in its fleet, including 13 Airbus planes

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6. Iran shuts Gabd-Rimdan border after deadly clashes

• The Iranian government has closed the Gabd Rimdan border on Tuesday, officials said.
• Official sources said Iran had closed the crossing point af ter armed clashes between its security forces and Iranian Baloch people in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, in which `hundreds of people were killed several others injured`.
• Iranian forces also suffered casualties, including two senior intelligence commanders.
• The border crossing point, inaugurated earlier this year, is located between Gabd in Balochistan and Rimdan in Iran`s Sistan province.
• `The Gabd crossing gate was closed for an indefinite period for pilgrims and trade,` officials said

7. Prison chief murdered in held Kashmir

• The chief of the prison service in held Kashmir has been murdered, police said on Tuesday, as the powerful interior minister visited the occupied valley.
• The body of Hemant Kumar Lohia, 57, the region`s director general of prisons, was found at his home on Monday night in the Jammu region, police said.
• Police said a household helper was the main suspect but an Islamist militant group said it had targeted and killed Lohia. Senior police officer Mukesh Singh said Lohia`s throat had been cut and his body bore burns. The initial investigation suggested it was not a `terror act` but police were investigating, he said

8. Angela Merkel wins UN refugee prize

• Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday won the United Nations refugee agency`s prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.
• Pointing to the more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, at the height of migrant crisis sparked especially by the war in Syria, the UNHCR selection committee hailed Merkel`s `leadership, courage and compassion.
• At the time, the woman who lead the German government for 16 years said the situation `put our European values to the test as seldom before. It was no more and no less than a humanitarian imperative.` The UN refugee agency highlighted how she had called on her fellow Germans to reject divisive nationalism, urging them instead to be `compassionate and open-minded`

9. N. Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan

• North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter.
• The latest launch which the US branded `reckless and dangerous` comes in a record year of sanctions-busting weapons tests by North Korea, which recently revised its laws to declare itself an `irreversible` nuclear power.
• US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida both condemned the test firing, the White House said after a call between the two.
• Biden also reiterated the US` `ironclad commitment to Japan`s defence,` the statement said

10. Trio wins physics Nobel for experiments in `spooky` quantum science

• A trio of physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication.
• Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Austria`s Anton Zeilinger were honoured for `groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated`, the committee said.
• `It has become increasingly clear that a new kind of quantum technology is emerging,` said Anders Irback, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics

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