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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 15, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 15, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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October 15, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. NSC vows firm response to resurging terrorism

• The National Security Committee (NSC) on October 14, 2022 vowed to respond firmly to resurgent terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and agreed on a plan for revitalising the counterterrorism apparatus.
• The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and attended by ministers, services chiefs, and heads of intelligence agencies, was convened in the backdrop of large-scale protests in Swat against growing insecurity in the scenic valley. It was, therefore, a first acknowledgment of sorts at the highest level of the deteriorating situation.
• The NSC`s resolve coincided with defence minister Khawaja Asif`s remarks who, separately, said that recent talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had remained inconclusive and `bore no concrete outcomes`, but added that armed forces were fully capable of containing any threat to national security

2. Three killed, six injured in Mastung bomb attack

• Three people were killed and six others injured in a bomb attack targeting two vehicles in the mountainous area of Qabu in Mastung district on October 14, 2022.
• Levies officials said the vehicles were carrying the people who were returning after burying a man kille d by unknown armed men in the Dasht area. A tribal elder, Mir Shahnawaz Bangulzai, was also in one of the vehicles, but he escaped unhurt in the attack.
• Sources said an improvised explosive device (IED) planted at a roadside went off when the vehicles were passing through the area.
• Three people died on the spot. The bodies and the injured were taken to Mastung district hospital

3. UK to give additional £10m aid for flood-affected areas

• Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the United Kingdom`s minister of state for South Asia, on October 14, 2022 announced an additional £10 million in aid for flood relief efforts in Pakistan.
• The minister met with key government counterparts, community leaders and aid agencies to discuss the response to the humanitarian crisis and longterm recovery for the country after he arrived in Islamabad on Friday.
• The UK is providing further humanitarian support to Pakistan following devastating Hoods that killed over1,000 people and affected more than 33 million, Lord Tariq Ahmad told Dawn

4. Ex-BHC CJ gunned down in Kharan mosque attack

• Former Federal Shariat Court and Balochistan High Court chief justice Mohammad Noor Meskanzai was assassinated while offering prayer at a mosque in Kharan town, some 220 kilometres from Khuzdar through Basima-Kharan (N30) highway, on October 14, 2022 evening.
• His brother-in-law, Haji Mumtaz Ahmed, was also critically wounded when gunmen targeted them from outside the mosque, located at Purana Ghazi Road near Justice Meskanzai`s residence.
• In a late-night development, the Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
• Kharan District Police Officer (DPO) Asif Haleem earlier told Dawn that Justice Meskanzai, 66, was offering Isha prayer when he was shot at.

5. CM changes Hashim Dogar`s portfolio

• Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on October 14, 2022 did not accept the resignation of former home and prisons minister retired Col Hashim Dogar as provincial minister and changed his portfolio as irrigation minister.
• Mr Dogar had tendered his resignation as home and prisons minister on Oct 11, citing personal and health reasons.
• He told this reporter that party chairman Imran Khan had also told him that he would get his portfolio changed

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6. Rape used in Ukraine as a Russian `military strategy`, says UN

• Rape and sexual assault attributed to Moscow`s forces in Ukraine are part of a Russian `military strategy` and a `deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims`, UN envoy Pramila Patten said in an interview.
• `All the indications are there,` the UN special representative on sexual violence said on Thursday, when asked if rape was being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine.
• `When women are held for days and raped, when you start to rape little boys and men, when you see a series of genital mutilations, when you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it`s clearly a military strategy,` she said

7. Israeli forces kill two more Palestinians

• Israeli forces killed two Palestinians during an operation in the city of Jenin on October 14, 2022, Palestinian officials said, as months of clashes in the occupied West Bank continued.
• An Israeli military statement said troops came under heavy fire during the operation, in which an armed operative of the militant Hamas group and two other people were arrested. It said troops returned fire and `hits were identified`.
• The Jenin Brigade, an umbrella group of different armed factions, said one of its members had been killed.
• Atta Abu Rumeileh, a leader for the Fatah group in Jenin, told Reuters that the other man killed was a health official and Fatah member who participated in the fighting

8. Hamas signs reconciliation deal with Fatah in Algiers

• Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal in Algiers, vowing to hold elections by next October in their latest attempt to end a rift that has now lasted more than 15 years.
• The deal was signed by a leading figure from the Fatah party of President Mahmud Abbas and by the chief of Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza.
• The two rival groups have been at odds for more than a decade.
• While Fatah dominates the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority (PA), which is based in the West Bank, Hamas is in control in the Gaza Strip

9. Five killed in yet another mass shooting in US

• The gunman believed to have killed five people in North Carolina in America`s latest mass shooting is a 15-year-old boy, in critical condition after being shot by police, officials said on October 14, 2022.
• Two more people were wounded in the Thursday night shooting, the motive of which remains under investigation, Raleigh police chief Estella Patterson told a news conference in the state capital.
• She said the fatalities included a 29-year-old off-duty police officer who was on his way to work. The four other victims were a 16-year-old boy and three women aged 35, 49 and 52.
• A 59-year-old woman also remained hospitalised in critical condition

10. Nawaz stars again as Pakistan send World Cup warning with tri-series win

• All-rounder Mohammad Nawaz struck an unbeaten 38 from 22 balls to lift Pakistan to a five-wicket victory over New Zealand on October 14, 2022 to win the tri-series Twenty20 final in Christchurch with three balls to spare.
• It was a good sign for Pakistan going into the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, with an opener against arch-rivals India on October 23.
• After the hosts finished on 163-7 at Hagley Oval, spinner Michael Bracewell checked Pakistan`s early momentum in the tourists` reply, before Nawaz provided the final impetus for the win

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