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Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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September 28, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PM breaks silence over audio leaks, forms body for probe

• Days after the controversial leaks of informal conversation in the Prime Minister House surfaced and stirred up a political firestorm, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif termed it a serious `security lapse` and said a high-powered inquiry committee would probe the fiasco.
• Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Sharif said that foreign dignitaries would be apprehensive and uncomfortable if official buildings were bugged.
• `This is not my issue alone, but it is a matter of the dignity of 22 million people of Pakistan.
• Clarifying his position on the previous leak about facilitating import of machinery from India for Maryam Nawaz`s son-in-law, the prime minister said Ms Nawaz had never asked for any favour for herself or her son-in-law

2. Dar takes oath amid opposition mayhem in Senate

• Pandemonium reigned in the Senate on September 27, 2022 as PML-N leader Ishaq Dar, a former finance minister who is set to take up the post again, took oath as a member of the upper house hours after a petition seeking his disqualification was withdrawn from the Election Commission of Pakistan.
• PTI lawmakers gathered around the podium of Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, chanting slogans against Mr Dar soon after he was invited by the chairman to take oath. Torn-up copies of the agenda flew around the chamber as Mr Dar was administered the oath and even afterwards, when the ruling coalition`s members queued up to congratulate him for becoming a senator.
• Mr Sanjrani kept asking PTI senators to return to their seats but to no avail. They finally took their seats when security personnel started moving towards them on his direction

3. ADB to approve $1.5bn next month

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will approve a $1.5 billion countercyclical loan for Pakistan next month as it announced plans to provide $14bn to the Asia and the Pacific nations to ease a worsening food crisis posed by the impacts of climate change.
• Speaking at a virtual news conference at the beginning of its 55th annual meeting from Manila, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa said the $1.5bn countercyclical loan for Pakistan was under process and would be approved in October. `The ADB would continue its support in mitigating the climate change-related crisis in Pakistan, he said while answering a question.
• `The ADB will provide $14bn in support from 2022 to 2025 to address food security, he said, adding this response to the Asia and the Pacific region will be comprehensive, bringing into focus both the immediate and long-term aspects of food security

4. US envoy sees ties with Pakistan at `inflection point`

• US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome on September 27, 2022 remarked that the Washing ton Islamabad relationship had seen many ups and downs over the years, but now the two sides were at an inflection point, looking at a new era of bilateral relationship.
• The ambassador shared these views during a reception hosted in his honour by the American Business Forum (ABF) at a local golf and country club.
• Mr Blome also shared his views on the immense potential for Pakistan and the US to enhance trade and business, adding bilateral trade ties provided an advancement opportunity for both the economies. He said he was proud that the US was one of the biggest investor s in Pakistan as well as its largest export market

5. Shehbaz again asks world to come to flood victims` aid

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated that Pakistan alone cannot deal with the disaster caused by floods and torrential rainfall and urged the global community to help the affected people in this hour of difficulty.
• He said this while speaking to the media during his visit to a tent city at Jakhro village in Khairpur Nathan Shah taluka of Dadu district on September 27, 2022.
• Accompanied by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and National Disaster Management Authority Chairman Lt Gen Akhtar Nawaz, the premier visited the tents and met with women and children.
• He assured complete medical facilities and promised the students to reconstruct damaged schools

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6. Prince Salman named Saudi PM

• Saudi Arabia`s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was named the country`s prime minister on September 27, 2022.
• King Salman also ordered a cabinet reshuffle, naming his son Khalid Bin Salman, the former deputy defence minister, as the new defence minister.
• Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman stays as energy minister under a new cabinet, to be headed by the crown prince, according to a royal decree.
• Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, Finance Minister Mohammed al Jadaanand and Investment Minister Khalid al Falih kept their positions in the new cabinet.
• Prince Mohammed, who turned 37 last month, has been first in line to succeed his father as king since 2017.

7. Meloni gets to work picking right-wing govt for Italy

• Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her allies began on September 27, 2022 what is likely to be a weeks-long process of forming a new government, with crises looming on several fronts.
• Meloni`s post-fascist Brothers of Italy party, which triumphed in Sunday`s elections, has no experience of power but must assemble a cross-party team to tackle sky-high inflation and energy prices, and relations with a wary Europe.
• The 45-year-old is hoping to be the first woman to lead Italy as prime minister, but needs her allies, Matteo Salvini`s far-right League party and former Silvio Berlusconi`s Forza Italia, for a majority in parliament

8. Blasts, leaks in Russian pipelines alarm Europe; foul play feared

• Explosions were recorded before mysterious leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines linking Russia and Europe, seismologists said on September 27, 2022, raising suspicions of sabotage amid tensions over Moscow`s war in Ukraine.
• Photos taken by the Danish military showed large masses of bubbles on the surface of the water emanating from the three leaks in Sweden and Denmark`s economic zones north of Poland, from 200 to 1,000 metres (656 feet to 0.62 miles) in diameter.
• Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that while the details of what happened were not yet known, `we see clearly that it`s an act of sabotage, one that probably marks the next step of escalation of the situation in Ukraine`

9. Catalonia seeks new independence referendum

• Catalonia will push the Spanish government for a new agreement on holding a binding referendum on the region`s potential independence that would be recognised both by Spain and the international community, its separatist leader said on September 27, 2022.
• The Spanish government, however, rejected the proposal. `They have those maximalist aspirations, which are absolutely not shared by the government,` spokesperson Isabel Rodriguez told reporters. But both governments would keep talking to `normalise` their relationship, she said.
• The so-called `clarity agreement` proposal comes shortly before the fifth anniversary of Catalonia`s unauthorised independence referendum and at a critical time for its separatist movement, which is marred by divisions between moderates and radicals that have threatened to fracture the coalition government

10. Spacecraft successfully `crashes` into asteroid

• Nasa`s DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed in the world`s first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.
• Humanity`s first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a Nasa webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, DC, 10 months after DART was launched.
• The livestream showed images taken by DART`s camera as the cube-shaped `impactor` vehicle, no bigger than a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium, some 11 million kilometres from Earth

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