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

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

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September 02, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. 110 districts hit by floods as locals race to save Dadu

• Sindh braced for yet more flooding on September 1, 2022 as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, leaving part s of Dadu district inundated.
• Meanwhile, Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman told a summit that `monster` monsoon floods had washed away 45 per cent of country`s cropland, mainly in Sindh and caused around $10 billion in damages on the whole. In her estimation, around 70pc districts in the country are now underwater. Overall, a third of Pakistan or an area roughly the size of the UK is inundated.
• According to official data, the number of affected districts now stands at 110, including 34 in Balochistan,33 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 16 in Sindh and the rest in Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir

2. FPA exemption extended to 300 unit consumers

• Blaming the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government for what he called the `woes` the country was faced with, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on September 1, 2022 announced an exemption from Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) charges for electricity consumers utilising a maximum of 300 units in August.
• The prime minister also wished to rid thecountry of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) clutches and said the current agreement with the Fund should be the last programme availed by the government.
• `Earlier, we gave an FPA exemption to the consumers using less than 200 units and bore the burden of Rs21 billion that covered 48 to 52 per cent of power consumers. But I told my economic team that it was not enough… so today we have decided that the facility should be passed on to the consumers using a maximum of 300 units,` PM Sharif said while addressing a gathering of national and provincial lawmakers. `This (exemption of 300 units) will cover 75pc of the consumers across the country

3. Inflation refuses to cool down, hits 49-year high

• The headline inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) surged to a nearly 49-year high of 27.3pc in August from a year earlier, official data showed on September 1, 2022, mainly driven by rising food and energy prices.
• Price hikes in staples, including vegetables, wheat and cooking oil, led the high inflation, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said in a statement. In July, annual CPI inflation was 24.9pc, the highest in over 14 years.
• By contrast, August`s 27.3pc inflation was the highest on record since 1973-1974, PBS spokesman Ateequr Rehman told Dawn.com. Meanwhile, Arif Habib Corporation said the figure was the highest since November 1973.
• The CPI index has since mostly remained below 15pc, with a few exceptions in November 2008, when it was recorded at 24.3pc

4. UK, Denmark, France to send aid to Pakistan

• As floods continue to devastate the southern part of the country, Pakistan on September 1, 2022 received 15 million pounds (1 pound=$1.15) from the United Kingdom and 10 million Danish Krone (1 Krone=$0.13) from Denmark as the global community stepped up efforts to provide relief to over 30 million flood hit people.
• By Jamal Shahid and Amin Ahmed France also pledged an `extraordinary operation` to provide emergency relief to Pakistanis shattered by floods as Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari talked to his French counterpart regarding the humanitarian crisis brewing in the country.
• The latest funding by the UK came after London provided 1.5 million pounds to Pakistan for relief operations last week. The UK is providing further urgent life-saving support to Pakistan following devastating floods that have left a third of the country underwater, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced

5. Nadra biker service launched to facilitate applicants

• Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah on September 1, 2022 launched the Nadra biker service for carrying out processes of CNIC renewal and modification at the doorsteps of applicants.
• During his visit to the Nadra headquarters, the authority`s chairman Tariq Malik briefed the minister about its operations in Sindh, Balochistan and south Punjab which have been badly affected by devastating floods and heavy rains.
• The minister was informed that the monsoon rains and floods had caused heavy losses to most of the buildings of NRCs which were inundated by floodwater; however, the equipment has been saved and evacuated.
• Houses of 150 Nadra employees in those areas have been damaged

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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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