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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 07, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 07, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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September 07, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Indus Highway flooded by water from Manchhar

• Although water levels in the Manchhar Lake and its connected waterways dropped slightly, water gushing out of the latest cuts made in the freshwater lake inundated the Indus Highway on September 6, 2022.
• A bridge near the Sehwan toll plaza was damaged by the torrents, while a 30km stretch of the highway has been closed for traffic, officials said.
• Motorway Police official Saqib Ahmer told that barriers had been installed on the road and commuters have been advised not to use this route
• Word of a fresh breach in the Main Nara Valley Drain (MNVD)at RD-10 on Tuesday may have come as `good news` for the people of Dadu and Jamshoro, who could now look forward to a decline in water levels as the amount of discharge from the Manchhar Lake was starting to show signs of reduction.

2. Turkiye sends another train for flood relief

• Türkiye (formerly Turkey) on September 6, 2022 dispatched its third flood relief goods train from Ankara for Pakistan.
• The country had earlier sent its first relief goods train to Pakistan on Aug 30, followed by the second on Sept 1.
• `Turkiye has sent the third train carrying relief goods for the flood-hit people. Now all three trains are on their way to Zahedan (Iran) where Pakistan Railways (PR) authorities will receive them one by one and shift the goods to Taftan and then Dalbandin after transshipment of the goods. The first train has already entered Iran`s territory and is likely to reach Zahedan on Sept 9 and Taftan/Dalbandin on Sept 12,` an official source told Dawn on Tuesday

3. PDMA to work in concert with NGOs in Balochistan

• The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of Balochistan will coordinate with the non-governmental organisations engaged in flood relief so that they could reach the regions where their assistance was needed the most, the chief minister`s adviser on Home and Tribal Affairs said after a meeting with the NGO heads on September 6, 2022.
• The representatives of NGOs briefed Mir Ziaullah Langove, the adviser, about their work in different districts.
• Mir Langove later told a press conference that rains and floods had robbed the poor of their livelihood and displaced over 1.5 million people.
• `Since Pakistan is not a developed country, it cannot cope with this emergency alone. Balochistan badly needs assistance from NGOs because it`s the least developed province in the country,` Mir Langove said.

4. Balochistan govt appoints female deputy commissioner

• The Balochistan government on September 6, 2022 appointed a female officer to serve as deputy commissioner of Nasirabad district with an immediate effect replacing the outgoing deputy commissioner Mohammad Hussain.
• Enaineer Ayesha Zehri assumed her new responsibilities, after a notification was issued by the Services and General Administration regarding her appointment.
• It was the first time in the administrative history of Balochistan that a female officer was appointed as deputy commissioner of any district in the province

5. GB govt offers soft loans to students

• The Gilgit-Baltistan government has approved schemes under its entrepreneurship programme for students.
• Announcing the schemes, GB chief secretary Mohiyuddin Ahmed Wani said Rs25 million had been approved to provide soft loans to the budding students, entrepreneurs and freelancers to buy laptops and start their small businesses. He said the IT sector was the future of Pakistan and the GB government`s dream was to provide freelancing workforce to the world from GB.
• Meanwhile, the Jutial Sports Complex was formally inaugurated in Gilgit on September 6, 2022

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6. Blindness, vision problems on the decline, survey shows

• The prevalence of bundness and vision impairment among people aged 50 and above in Pakistan has reduced remarkably, from seven per cent to around two per cent, a survey by federal Ministry of Health shows.
• The results of `Third National Survey of Blindness` conducted between 20192021, were announced in a ceremony on September 6, 2022.
• According to the survey, 9,028,073 people in the country have vision impairment ranging from mild impairment to permanent blindness. Out of them, 484,027 are blind, down from 1.5 million in 2004, when the survey was last conducted.
• The prevalence of blindness was found to be higher in females with 2.07pc as compared to 1.98pc in males, revealed Prof Asad Aslam Khan who is the National Coordinator of Prevention of Blindness Programme in Pakistan.
• The overall number was 2.02pc

7. Toxic air kills over 128,000 Pakistanis every year

• At least 128,000 deaths are reported in Pakistan every year as a result of air pollution and related sicknesses, said Fair Finance Pakistan, a non-government body working to mitigate the impacts of climate change, on the eve of World Clean Air Day.
• Pakistan, alongside China and India, accounts for the highest deaths owing to air pollution as millions across the country are forced to breathe air that contains high levels of hazardous pollutants and particulate matter. The NGO also launched an online campaign to raise public awareness and facilitate actions to improve air quality in the country.
• Asim Jaffry, country programme lead, said: `There is a need to change the business model in Pakistan and elsewhere to ensure that business operations exercise responsibility especially the financial sector to ensure net zero carbon footprints, protect human life and the planet`s ecology

8. Truss takes over as Britain`s prime minister, Johnson bows out

• Liz Truss took over as British prime minister on September 6, 2022, facing one of the most daunting set of challenges for an incoming leader in post-War history led by soaring energy bills, a looming recession and industrial strife.
• Truss, the fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, flew to the royal family`s Scottish home to be asked by Queen Elizabeth to form a government.
• She replaces Boris Johnson who was forced out after three tumultuous years in power.`Ms Truss accepted Her Majesty`s offer and kissed hands upon her appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury,` Buckingham Palace said

9. 27 killed as Al Qaeda launches attack on Yemen separatists

• Twenty-one separatist fighters and six members of Al Qaeda`s Yemen branch were killed on September 6, 2022 as an attack by the jihadists punctured months of relative peace in the war-torn country, government and security sources said.
• Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) attacked positions held by the UAE-trained Security Belt group in Abyan province in Yemen`s south, the sources said.
• The violence came just days after the jihadist group released a video of a United Nations worker whom it abducted in the same province more than six months ago

10. UN urges Lanka to check `drift towards militarisation`

• Sri Lanka must immediately reverse its `drift towards militarisation` and prosecute those responsible for leading the country to its unprecedented economic crisis, the United Nations said on September 6, 2022.
• The South Asian island nation has suffered acute food and fuel shortages, lengthy blackouts and spiralling inflation this year after running out of foreign currency to import essentials.
• The crisis sparked months of protests against the government over economic mismanagement, culminating in a huge crowd storming the residence of the then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and chasing him from the country

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