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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 18, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 18, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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September 18, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. 3 militants killed in Khyber operation, claims CTD

• At least three suspected terrorists were killed by the personnel of Counter Terrorism Department during an intelligence-based operation in the Sur Kamar area of Jamrud in Khyber tribal district late on September 17, 2022 evening.
• A brief statement issued by the CTD on Saturday said the operation was conducted upon information about the presence of an armed group that was busy planning terrorist attacks in the country.
• Three armed men were killed after an exchange of intense gunfire, while another two or three managed to escape taking advantage of the darkness.
• The CTD statement said that some arms and ammunitions were seized during the operation

2. Russia offered wheat, gas supplies to Pakistan

• Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on September 17, 2022 said that Russia has offered wheat to Pakistan to deal with the impending food shortages as a result of crops damages caused by recent floods.
• Addressing a press conference, Mr Asif detailed the prime minister`s interaction with world leaders at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan.
• `There have been discussions on oil, gas and wheat supplies from Russia,` he said, adding that Russia has proposed that its gas pipelines infrastructure which was in place till Central Asian states could be extended to Pakistan through Afghanistan.
• Mr Asif also said Russian President Vladimir Putin appreciated Pakistan`s position on the Russia-Ukraine War

3. PM appoints three judges to GB chief court

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as chairman of the Gilgit-Baltistan Council, has appointed three judges to the region`s chief court and extended the tenure of another three for a year.
• A Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan notification said on September 17, 2022 the premier, acting on the advice of GB`s governor, who is also the council`s vice chairman, appointed district and sessions judge Mushtaq Muhammad and advocates Jahanzeb Khan and Javed Ahmed as chief court judges for a year under Article 84(10) of the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order, 2018.
• Another notification said the prime minister extended the tenure of Justice Malik Inayat ur Rehman, Justice Johar Ali Khan and Justice Raja Shakeel Ahmed for a year with effect from Sept 16.
• The three posts filled on Saturday had been lying vacant for many years while the tenure of judges who got extensions had also expired

4. Abdullah Sumbal made acting CS

• Planning and Development (P&D) Board Chairman Abdullah Khan Sumbal on September 17, 2022 assumed look-after charge of Punjab chief secretary`s office, since the incumbent officer Kamran Ali Afzal has proceeded on a two-week leave.
• Mr Afzal had repeatedly requested the federal government to withdraw his services from Punjab for not being comfortable with the present provincial government.
• Mr Sumbal belongs to 23rd Common of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) and has a vast experience in the fields of finance and public administration. He has served on various important positions, including additional chief secretary (ACS), secretary of finance, higher education and information departments, as well as commissioner of Lahore and Sahiwal divisions

5. No dollars for food imports from Iran, Afghanistan

• The food importers, especially vegetables, from Afghanistan and Iran have been relying on the grey market to make payments since they are not allowed to buy dollars from banks or exchange companies.
• The country has been facing an acute shortage of tomatoes, onions, potatoes, etc after floods destroyed crops pushing up prices to unprecedented levels across the country.
• This situation has forced the government to immediately allow imports of these foodstuffs from neighbouring countries to bridge the supply and demand gap but it has not made any arrangements for the provision of greenbacks to make payments against these imports.
• Quite interestingly, the importers were asked to enter into barter deals with their Afghan and Iranian counterparts by exporting food items available in Pakistan

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6. Pakistan major beneficiary of ADB`s food import plan

• Pakistan immensely benefited through the Trade and Supply Chain Finance Programme (TSCFP) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for food and agriculture-related imports during the past 18 months.
• TSCFP supported more than 1,900 food and agriculture-related imports valued at $2.3 billion to 10 countries in developing Asia, with most assistance going to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam, according to information released by ADB.
• ADB says it has boosted its support to ease worsening food shortages in Asia and the Pacific by expanding assistance through its `Trade and Supply Chain Finance Programme to clear bottlenecks in the import of food and agriculture products

7. Democratic Party officials call out Hindutva groups, seek FBI, CIA probe

• A Democratic Party unit in a New Jersey town has passed a resolution calling out the US-based Hindutva outfits as `domestic branches` of `foreign hate groups` The resolution named several right-wing Hindu groups such as the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), SEWA International, Infinity Foundation and Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation among the outfits that practise Hindu supremacism in the United States.
• Passed by the Teaneck Democratic Municipal Committee (TDMC) this week, the resolution urged US senators and congressmen from New Jersey, and Governor Phil Murphy, to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to `step up` research on these `foreign hate groups that enjoy `tax-exempt status` in the United States.
• `Hindu nationalist organisations have in filtrated all levels of politics and were highly effective in blocking US House Resolution 417 which was a congressional attempt to warn against the Hindu nationalist movement,` TDMC said.

8. US warns Russia against using N-weapons

• Amid a counter-offensive by Moscow with fresh strikes in several regions of Ukraine after Vladimir Putin`s claim that the plan is not subject to adjustment, US President Joe Biden has warned his Russian counterpart against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the wake of serious losses.
• `Don`t. Don`t. Don`t,` Biden said, in an excerpt from an interview with CBS` `60 Minutes` aired Friday evening. `You would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II,` he said.
• `They will become more of a pariah in the world, more than they have ever been,` the US leader added.
• Moscow is facing fresh outrage from the West after the discovery of a mass grave outside the formerly Russian-occupied city of Izyum

9. US court rejects big tech`s right to regulate speech on social media platforms

• A US appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on `viewpoint,` a setback for technology industry groups that say the measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content.
• The 3-0 ruling by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, sets up the potential for the Supreme Court to rule on the law, which conservatives and right-wing commentators have said is necessary to prevent `Big Tech` from suppressing their views.
• `Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,` Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.
• The Texas law was passed by the state`s Republican-led legislature and signed by its Republican governor

10. Panama charges two former presidents with corruption

• Panamanian prosecutors have charged former presidents Ricardo Martinelli and Juan Carlos Varela with laundering money from construction giant Odebrecht, after the company admitted paying bribes in the country.
• The two men, who collectively led Panama between 2009 and 2019, were not present at a court hearing on Friday. Prosecutors accused the pair of using front companies and foreign bank accounts to receive funds from Odebrecht between 2008 and 2014.
• About 50 other people are implicated in the charges, including several former ministers, prosecutors said.

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