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August 06, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

1. Imran sent to jail for graft

• After a trial court in Islamabad sentenced him to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case on August 5, 2023, former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested from his Lahore residence and shifted to Attock jail in a swift police operation.
• The police, already on standby in anticipation of a verdict in the hearing, swung into action minutes after Additional District and Sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar announced the verdict, which also disqualified the PTI chairman from contesting general elections

2. Election delay `certain` as CCI ratifies latest census

• The Council of Common Interests (CCI) approved the results of the 2023 digital census on August 5, 2023, making it almost certain that general elections may not be held this year as a fresh delimitation, which may take months, has now become compulsory.
• Although some of the ruling allies, including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), earlier opposed holding the next general elections under the fresh census, its silence in the CCI meeting has raised questions

3. Population surpasses 240m, new census shows

• The country`s population has crossed 240 million and the growth rate stands at 2.55 per cent, according to the 2023 national census, whose results were approved by the Council of Common Interests (CCI) on Saturday.
• And as the government has reiterated that the general election, due to take place later this year will be held using the new census findings, it indicates polls could be delayed by several months.
• The latest census shows the country`s population has jumped to 241.49m in 2023, an increase of around 33.8 million people compared to 2017, when the last census was conducted, and over around 110m compared to the 1998 census

4. Imran becomes first former prime minister to be kept in Attock jail

• Former prime minister Imran Khan was taken to the district jail Attock on Saturday evening after his arrest from Zaman Park Lahore following his conviction in the Toshakhana case by a trial court in Islamabad.
• The PTl chief was taken to the jail by road amid strict security. All roads leading to the jail were cordoned off by heavily-guarded personnel of law-enforcement agencies. As soon as the directive to Attock police was received, heavy reinforcement of police and Elite Force was made around the jail

5. Torkham border closed after scuffle between guards

• A scuffle between the border guards of Pakistan and Afghanistan caused the temporary closure of Torkham crossing point on Saturday.
• Sources at the point told Dawn that Afghan guards exchanged hot words with their Pakistani counterparts and then scuffled with them when the former stopped and beat up a minor Afghan boy for taking sugar in a shopping bag across the border

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6. Takes two to tango, Pakistan tells India

• Pakistan has urged India to resume bilateral talks on Kashmir and other issues, reminding it that refusing to talk would have dangerous consequences for all.
• `There should be some resonance of reciprocity from New Delhi as well,` said Pakistan`s US ambassador, and a former president of Azad Kashmir, while addressing a meeting in Washington. `It takes two to tango. It can`t be a monologue. It needs to be a dialogue

7. Congo fever claims four lives since Eidul Azha

• With Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever infecting 14 people and killing four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last one and a half months, health experts have called for preventive measures against the tick-borne disease.
• The cases of Congo fever have been reported after Eidul Azha at the end of June, according to a health department report

8. Indian lunar mission enters Moon`s orbit

• India`s latest space mission entered the Moon`s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country`s second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights.
• The world`s most populous nation has a comparatively low-budget aerospace programme that is rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global space powers.
• Only Russia, the United States and China have previously achieved a controlled landing on the lunar surface

9. Saudi dives into Ukraine peace push with Jeddah talks

• Saudi Arabia is hosting talks on the Ukraine war on Saturday in the latest flexing of its diplomatic muscle, a session that Kyiv acknowledged would `not be easy` given the wide range of countries represented.
• The meeting, which Ukrainian organisers had said would include representatives from around 40 countries but not Russia, began on Saturday in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, participants said

10. Russian strikes kill three civilians in Syria

• Three family members, all civilians, were killed on Saturday when Russian warplanes struck the outskirts of the northwest Syrian city of Idlib, a war monitor said.
• Russia has over the years repeatedly struck Syria`s last main opposition bastion, but attacks killing civilians had been limited this year until an uptick in violence in late June.

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