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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 21, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 21, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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September 21, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Minister admits `limits to govt writ` in missing persons cases

• Describing those involved in `enforced disappearances` of political workers, human rights activists and other individuals as violators of the Constitution, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on September 20, 2022 claimed to have taken up the matter in line with the premier`s directives, which included a comprehensive plan to address the issue that, he said, was `more painful than death`.
• However, talking to reporters after meeting coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) at the party`s temporary headquarters in Bahadurabad, the interior minister apparently conceded the government had limited writ in this regard.
• When asked that some enforced disappearance cases dated back to the previous governments of the PML-N and PPP in the centre, he said: `There`s no denying and we all know that how much writ successive governments have had and [the current one] still has in this regard and what are its other aspects

2. One soldier martyred in cross-border attack from Afghanistan

• A Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom in an exchange of fire with the terrorists in Dwatoi area of North Waziristan, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
• The attackers opened fire on the security forces from inside Afghanistan on Monday, the ISPR has claimed.
• The security forces responded in a befitting manner and as per credible intelligence reports, terrorists suffered heavy casualties, the statement added.
• The martyred sepoy has been identified as Nazar Muhammad, 34, hailing from Balochistan`s Jafferabad area

3. World leaders join Pakistan for SOS on flood and debt

• `Pakistan is drowning, not only in floodwater but in debt` too, said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif urged the international community on September 20, 2022 to stay engaged with the country as it deals with this huge humanitarian crisis.
• Pakistan and France, meanwhile, agreed to identify ways and means to support efforts to tackle the challenge caused by the floods and Paris offered to host an international conference before the end of the year to help Islamabad rebuild in a climate-resilient manner.
• `I recently saw it with my own eyes in Pakistan where one-third of the country is submerged by a `monsoon on steroids`,` said the UN chief during a forceful address to world leaders gathered for the opening day of the General Assembly`s high-level debate

4. UNICEF regrets $39m appeal `less than a third funded`

• The United Nations` children`s fund (UNICEF) has regretted that its funding appeal of $39 million for Pakistan`s flood-hit children is still less than a third funded and that needs of the children will only continue to grow.
• `The world needs to come together and help the children in Pakistan. Together we can save lives by delivering life-saving health, nutrition and education services to every child in Pakistan who needs it the most,` it said.
• UNICEF Pakistan chief field officer in Balochistan, Gerida Birukila, told newsmen in Geneva on Tuesday that next week marked a month since catastrophic floods uprooted more than 3.4 million children from their homes in Pakistan.
• `The rains and floods have already claimed the lives of more than 550 children

5. `0.5 million die of wrong medication every year`

• On average 18.3 per cent of adverse events in hospitals occur due to medication errors, while approximately 3pc of hospital deaths are caused by these incidents, and in Pakistan, around 0.5 million people die each year due to such errors.
• These observations were made by health experts while speaking at a webinar titled `Medication without harm` held here on Tuesday.
• Punjab Healthcare Commission Chief Executive Officer Dr Muhammad Saqib Aziz chaired the event. Some other senior officials of the commission also attended the event

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6. Centre `abruptly` recalls Lahore CCPO

• In what appeared to be a surprise move, the federal government has withdrawn the services of Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar and directed him to report to the Establishment Division for further order.
• However, Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi has stopped the CCPO from relinquishing the charge, saying that the federal government can neither remove the CCPO nor transfer him.
• The government withdrew his posting from Punjab a day after Lahore police booked two PML-N ministers, as well as two senior officials of state-run PTV on terrorism charges for allegedly `fanning religious hatred` against former premier Imran Khan and `endangering his life`

7. One person dying of hunger every four seconds: NGOs

• One person is estimated to be dying of hunger every four seconds, over 200 NGOs warned on September 20, 2022, urging decisive international action to `end the spiralling global hunger crisis`.
• In an open letter addressing world leaders gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, 238 organisations from 75 countries, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Plan International expressed outrage at sky rocketing hunger levels.
• `A staggering 345 million people are now experiencing acute hunger, a number that has more than doubled since 2019,` they said in a statement.
• `Despite promises from world leaders to never allow f amine again in the 21st century, f amine is once more imminent in Somalia. Around the world, 50 million people are on the brink of starvation in 45 countries,` they said

8. Erdogan calls for `dignified way out` of Ukraine quagmire

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 20, 2022 called for a `dignified way out` of the seven-month crisis sparked by Russia`s invasion of Ukraine.
• Erdogan has been using his good working relations with both Moscow and Kyiv to try and find a diplomatic solution to the war.
• He spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone moments before addressing the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly with an urgent appeal for peace.
• `Together, we need to find a reasonably practical diplomatic solution that will give both sides a dignified way out of the crisis,` Erdogan told the United Nations. He said a lasting peace must be based on protecting Ukraine`s territorial integrity

9. Hales, Brook lead England past Pakistan in opening T20

• Midway through their pursuit of 159 in their first match in Pakistan since 2005, England`s Alex Hales made his first mistake.
• The explosive opener, playing his first international match after three years, played a flat shot off Pakistan spinner Usman Qadir straight into the hands of Shan Masood at mid-wicket but got an instant reprieve as the debutant spilled it.
• England did lose Ben Duckett two balls later, but the arriving Harry Brook carried his team across the finish line with four balls and six wickets to spare in the first of the seven Twenty20 Internationals here at the National Stadium on September 20, 2022.

10. Sindh break KP`s dominance to lift National T20 Cup for first time

• Veteran Sohail Khan`s four wickets and Sharjeel Khan`s blistering half-century led Sindh to their maiden National T20 Cup crown after they thumped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by eight wickets in the final at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Monday night.
• This is the first time in four years that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa didn`t manage to win the title.
• In pursuit of a 141-run target, Sindh opening pair of Sharjeel (53) and Saim Ayub (36) took full advantage of the powerplay as both the batters stroked eight fours and six sixes combined and stitched a 70-run partnership in seven overs

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