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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 02, 2022) for CSS, PMS

September 2, 2022
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6. Duty-free imports of onions, tomatoes okayed

• The government on September 1, 2022 exempted sales tax and withholding tax on the import of tomatoes and onions for a period of four months, especially from Afghanistan and Iran, to arrest the skyrocketing prices of the vegetables in the domestic market in the aftermath of heavy rains and floods.
• Tomatoes and onions are currently cleared at Torkham, Chaman, and Taftan customs border stations for a fee of 17 per cent sales tax, 3pc additional sales tax, and 1pc withholding tax. All these duties and taxes are exempt until Dec 31.
• Pakistan is already importing vegetables from Afghanistan and Iran to bridge the shortfall in domestic production and cater to the rising demand. However, the government will have to look for other options to import, including India, because localcrop destruction and delay in sowing cannot alone be catered to by imports from these two countries

7. IAEA team visits Ukraine N-plant, to `stay` for now

• UN inspectors will be `staying` at a Russian-held nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, its head said on September 1, 2022 after their first visit to the facility following a risky journey across the frontline despite early-morning shelling of the area.
• Wearing bright blue flak jackets and helmets, the 14-strong team crossed into Russian-held territory, reaching the facility around 1200 GMT with the International Atomic Energy Agency chief describing it as a productive first visit.
• `Today we were able, in these few hours, to gather a lot of information,` Rafael Grossi told reporters outside the plant

8. UN says China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang

• China`s `arbitrary and discriminatory detention` of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report.
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who has faced criticism from some diplomats and rights groups for being too soft on China, released the report just minutes before her four-year term ended.
• She visited China in May.
• China has vigorously denied any abuses in Xinjiang and issued a 131page response to the 48-page UN report. The UN Human Rights Office said in the report that serious human rights violations have been committed` in Xinjiang `in the context of the government`s application of counter-terrorism and counter `extremism` strategies`

9. First Native elected to Congress as former governor Palin loses

• Mary Peltola, a Democratic former state lawmaker, won a special election to fill Alaska`s sole US House of Representatives seat, becoming the first Alaska Native to represent the state in Congress, the Alaska Division of Elections announced.
• She defeated Republican former Governor Sarah Palin by 51.47pc to 48.53pc.
• Palin is widely known for her unsuccessful vice presidential run with John McCain in 2008.
• Peltola will finish the remainder of the term of Republican Representative Don Young, who died earlier this year, and will face re-election on Nov 8

10. Poland asks Germany for war reparations of 1.3tr euros

• Poland on September 1, 2022 estimated the financial cost of World War II losses to be 1.3 trillion euros (dollars) and said it would `ask Germany to negotiate these reparations`.
• `It is a major sum of 6.2 trillion` Polish zloty, said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling Law and Justice party and widely considered to be Poland`s de facto leader.
• Most of this sum `is compensation for the deaths of more than 5.2 million Polish citizens,` he stressed.
• Kaczynski said that receiving reparations would be a `long and difficult` process.
• `It is a decision we will implement, he said, speaking on the anniversary of Nazi Germany`s invasion of Poland on Sept 1, 1939

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