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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 06, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 06, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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September 06, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Another `cut` in Manchhar as water threatens airport

• A day after a `relief cut“ was made to reduce the water level in Manchhar Lake, the irrigation department made a fresh cut on Monday night in a bid to save Dadu and Jamshoro.
• As water from the overflowing lake reached Sehwan airport and a nearby oil pumping facility, the cut was made at RD-52, in a bid to save the two cities, Jamshoro Deputy Commissioner Farid-uddin Mustafa told.
• Officials said that more cuts might be needed to manage increasing flows from Main Nara Valley Drain (MNVD) or Right Bank Outfall Drain-I.
• Reports from the area suggested that the runway at Sehwan`s Shahbaz Airport was under one foot of water while the Pak-Arab refinery located in the area was also inundated

2. Govt orders paperwork for oil sector deregulation

• Amid record prices, the government has decided in principle to go for deregulation of the oil sector and has asked the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to work out its modalities in consultation with oil refineries and marketing companies.
• A senior official told the government had asked Ogra to thrash out terms of reference for oil sector deregulation in order to promote competition and efficiency.
• Oil meets 31pc of the country`s energy requirements. Despite these lucrative numbers, no refinery has been set up for more than a decade.
• Similarly, upgrades of the existing refineries have not kept pace with the latest technology

3. KP govt to notify 13 districts as `calamity-hit`, PA told

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was told on September 5, 2022 that the provincial government would declare 13 districts `calamity-hit` in light of the widespread damage to infrastructure by the recent monsoon floods.
• On an adjournment motion in the assembly, labour minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai said initial estimates put the damage from the flooding at over more than Rs 125 billion and that included destruction of 1,400 kilometers roads, bridges and 1,458 schools.
• He added that those said initial estimates as survey of damage was under way in affected districts.
• `The government is declaring 13 districts calamity hit,` he said.
• The minister said 87,000 houses were destroyed or damaged, while around 600,000 people were displaced by the monsoon disaster

4. Officer among five army men martyred in NW

• A young army officer and four soldiers were martyred in an exchange of fire with terrorists that took place when security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Boyya area of North Waziristan tribal district on September 5, 2022, the military said.
• During the conduct of the operation, an intense exchange of fire took place between the troops and the terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military`s media affairs wing, said. The troops effectively engaged the terrorists` location as a result of which four terrorists were killed. Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the killed terrorists.
• The killed terrorists remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent citizens, the ISPR said

5. Aslam Iqbal appointed as senior minister

• The Punjab government has designated provincial minister Mian Aslam Iqbal as senior minister of the provincial cabinet.
• Mr Iqbal is currently serving as minister for housing, urban development and public health engineering, besides heading industries, commerce, investment and skill development departments.
• Mr Iqbal has been notified senior minister on the direction of Chief Minister Parvez Elahi.
• Meanwhile, the Punjab government has denotified Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) vice-chairman Shaheen Khalid Butt and posted Syed Tariq Mehmoodul Hassan in his place

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6. Rs19.8bn disbursed among flood-hit people so far: BISP

• The Benazir Income Support Programme has said that the social safety network is providing Rs25000 to each family in flood-hit areas of the country, and so far the programme has disbursed more than Rs19.8 billion under the programme.
• As many as 793,701 affected families had received the humanitarian financial aid under the BISP`s Flood Relief Emergency Cash Assistance Programme.
• In Balochistan 90,396 families received Rs2.25bn; 466,045 families in Sindh received Rs11.6bn; 98,677 families of KP received Rs2.4bn; and 138,583 families in Punjab received Rs3.4bn.
• All payment centres have been kept open on holidays for disbursement of payments to affected families

7. Truss named as UK`s third woman prime minister

• Britain`s new Conservative leader Liz Truss on September 5, 2022 vowed `bold` action to confront a biting economic crisis as she was confirmed as successor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a gruelling party contest.
• The foreign secretary also resisted pressure for a politically perilous early election to confirm her new mandate, vowing to `deliver a great victory for the Conservative party in 2024`.
• Truss beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a summer-long contest decided by just over 170,000 Conservative members a tiny sliver of Britain`s electorate.
• Truss ignored the applauding Sunak as she marched up to the stage of the central London convention hall, calling it an `honour` to be elected after undergoing `one of the longest job interviews in history`

8. Two Russian embassy staff among six killed in Kabul attack

• A suicide bomber struck near the Russian embassy in Kabul, on September 5, 2022, killing two staff members from the diplomatic mission, along with four others.
• In the first attack targeting a foreign mission since the Taliban seized power in August last year, the bomber struck near the entrance of the embassy`s consular section. `Without any doubt, we are talking about a terrorist act, which is absolutely unacceptable,` Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow.
• Afghanistan`s foreign ministry confirmed the deaths of two embassy staff. The ministry said an investigation had been launched and authorities `will not allow the enemies to sabotage relations between both countries with such negative actions`

9. Moscow `pauses` vote in Ukraine amid fightback

• Russian-installed authorities in an occupied Ukrainian region on September 5, 2022 suggested plans for a referendum on joining Russia had been delayed as Moscow blamed Western sanctions for a halt in gas supplies across Europe.
• Since the first weeks of the February invasion, Kherson and the southern region of Zaporizhzhia have been largely under Russia`s control and are now being forcefully integrated into its economy.
• Moscow-backed authorities have been for several weeks talking of holding referendums to officially join occupied territories to Russia, as happened in the 2014 annexation of Crimea

10. Israel `admits` killing Al Jazeera journalist

• The Israeli army has conceded for the first time since May that it is likely Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli soldier who mistook her for a militant.
• `There is a high possibility that Ms Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF (Israel Defence Forces) gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen,` said the army`s final investigation report on Monday.
• `Our conclusion is that it`s not possible to determine unequivocally which gunfire killed her, but there`s a higher probability that she was hit by an errant shot of an IDF soldier who did not identify her as a journalist,` a senior Israeli military official said

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