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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 16, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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October 16, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. `Cohesive` reply greets Biden`s N-arsenal doubts

• In a stern response, Pakistan has categorically rejected US President Joe Biden`s remarks about the country`s nuclear weapons as `factually incorrect and misleading`, while the American ambassador in Islamabad was summoned to issue an official demarche.
• President Biden brought up Pakistan out of the blue at a fundraising event in California on Thursday, while discussing various global threats to US interests.
• He said he has spent more time with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping than `any person in any head of state in America,` he said.
• `This is a guy who understands what he wants but has an enormous, enormous array of problems. How do we handle that?` he asked.
• `How do we handle that relative to what`s going on in Russia?` And then, totally out of context, he moved on to Pakistan. `What I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world: Pakistan.` And then he explained why he thought Pakistan was dangerous: `Nuclear weapons without any cohesion

2. Reconstruction after floods to begin on 24th

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will formally announce government measures for the reconstruction and rehabilitation phase for the post flood recovery of affected districts on Oct 24, the Planning Commission said on October 15, 2022.
• The announcement came after the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment of the damages and losses in the wake of catastrophic floods that hit Pakistan in August has been completed by the planning and development division in collaboration with the World Bank, ADB, EU and UN.
• Addressing a roundtable on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF annual meetings on Friday, Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal shared some of the report`s key findings

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3. Pakistan suffered climate-induced losses worth $29bn: World Bank

• Weather and climate-related disasters have affected over 75 million Pakistanis in the past three decades, with estimated economic losses of over $29 billion, or roughly $1billion a year, latest World Bank report estimated.
• The projected temperature extremes will progressively amplify the negative impacts on human health, livelihoods, and ecosystems that Pakistan is already experiencing, said the report titled `From Swimming in Sand to High and Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap to Reduce Distortions in the Allocation of Resources and Talent in the Pakistani Economy`.
• The report explained Pakistan`s climate has been changing in recent decades and the country faced rates of warming that are considerably above the global average

4. Punjab gets four more districts

• The Board of Revenue has notified four new districts Wazirabad, Murree, Kot Addu and Talagang out of five approved by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, as the fifth Taunsa Sharif is likely to be notified next week soon after the realignment of Fort Munro tehsil that touches D.G. Khan district.
• Some politicians had approached the provincial government demanding that Fort Munro tehsil should be attached to Dera Ghazi Khan district, which is just 30km away, while the same tehsil is more than 100km from Taunsa Sharif, sources say.
• It would be relatively unfeasible for a large population to look towards Taunsa Sharif for the resolution of their issues, they had complained

5. Floods spike Pakistan poverty rate: WB

• The World Bank says the national poverty rate in Pakistan could increase by 2.5 to 4.0 percentage points as a direct consequence of the floods, with adverse human development effects in disaster-affected areas.
• The size and duration of shocks will vary across locations and households, depending on the intensity of the flooding as well as the quality of relief and reconstruction efforts, the World Bank says in its latest `Macro Poverty Outlook for Pakistan` released during the course of ongoing IMF World Bank annual meetings.
• According to the outlook made available on Saturday, the high inflation and devastating floods will have an adverse impact on poverty. While rising prices reduced the real purchasing power of all households, the floods primarily affected rural areas in Sindh and Balochistan where poverty rates are already high

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6. Sadrist camp refuses to join new govt in Iraq

• Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr`s movement on October 15, 2022 announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister designate Mohammad Shia al Sudani.
• The announcement came two days after lawmakers elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq`s new president, and he swiftly named Sudani as prime minister in a bid to end a year of political gridlock since October 2021 elections.
• `We stress our firm and clear refusal for any of our affiliates to participate… in this government formation,` Mohammed Saleh al-Iraqi, a close associate of Sadr, said in a statement posted on Twitter

7. Norway detains second drone-carrying Russian

• Norway said on October 15, 2022 it arrested a Russian national carrying a drone and camera equipment after he was seen taking photos of an airport in the far north, the second such arrest in a week.
• Norway is on high alert following reports of mysterious drone sightings close to offshore oil and gas drilling platforms run by the major energy producer.
• Last month`s Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts in the Baltic Sea are widely assumed to be the result of sabotage. The 51 year-old Russian man, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of flying a drone in Norway, to which he confessed

8. One killed, two wounded by Israeli fire in West Bank

• A young Palestinian was killed and two others were critically wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on October 15, 2022.
• The Palestinian health ministry identified the deceased as 23-year-old Qais Shajaeyah.
• Also, two Palestinians were critically wounded in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, amid heightened tensions in the occupied territory.
• One Palestinian was hit by `live bullets to the chest` during clashes with Israeli troops in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, southwest of Nablus, the ministry said, adding that another was also critically wounded

9. Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career

• A former Wall Street Journal reporter is accusing a major US law firm of having used mercenary hackers to oust him from his job and ruin his reputation.
• In a lawsuit filed late on Friday, Jay Solomon, the Journals former chief foreign correspondent, said Philadelphia-based Dechert LLP worked with hackers from India to steal emails between him and one of his key sources, Iranian American aviation executive Farhad Azima.
• Solomon said the messages, which showed Azima floating the idea of the two of them going into business together, were put into a dossier and circulated in a successful effort to get him fired

10. Terrorist` attack at Russian military camp kills 11

• At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a Russian military training ground on October 15, 2022 when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers who wished to fight in Ukraine, RIA news agency said.
• A `terrorist` attack by two citizens from former Soviet states opened fire during a training on a military site in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, and `both were killed in retaliatory fire, Russian news agencies said Saturday, citing the defence ministry.During a firearms training session, the terrorists opened fire with small arms on the personnel of the unit, RIA cited a defence ministry statement as saying.

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