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August 11, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

1. Delimitation to have little impact on NA seats

Although three districts should see the number of their National Assembly seats rise, it is unlikely that the fresh delimitation exercise would make any significant changes to the number of National Assembly seats in most districts throughout the country, a thorough examination of the official results of the firstever digital census reveals.
Since it was not possible to amend articles 51 and 106 of the Constitution to allocate more seats in the national and provincial legislatures,the yet-to-begin delimitation exercise is expected to be confined to intra-provincial changes, according to those privy to developments

2. KP caretaker ministers `asked to resign`

At least 19 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa`s caretaker cabinet on Thursday tendered their resignations to interim chief minister Azam Khan, which were prompted by their purported involvement in politics.
Sources told Dawn that the caretaker CM received the resignations from caretaker ministers over a cup of tea. `Not that the caretaker members resigned but the resignations were demanded by the caretaker chief minister as [at least] two members of the caretaker cabinet resisted by saying they were not involved in politics neither did they hold any political gathering,` they added

3. Tarbela attains maximum water storage level

The country`s mega reservoir Tarbela Dam has almost touched its maximum water storage level as it is just one foot from its maximum conservation level of 1,550 feet.
According to a report, shared by the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), the Tarbela Dam`s minimum operating level is 1,402 feet whereas its present level, recorded on Thursday morning, was 1,549 feet just one foot less than the maximum conservation level of 1,550 feet. The live storage was recorded as 5.752 MAF (millions acre feet).

4. PIA gets permanent CEO after 15 months

Former air vice marshal Muhammad Amir Hayat has been appointed as the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) chief executive officer, the national carrier`s spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.
Mr Hayat has been appointed for one year, according to Abdullah Hafeez Khan, however, the official notification in this regard is yet to be issued.
He had been serving as acting CEO since April 2022, after the retirement of the former CEO retired air marshal Arshad Malik

5. KP approves rules to make juvenile justice system operational

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved the much-awaited Juvenile Justice System Rules 2023 to make the 2018 juvenile law fully operational for benefitting child offenders.
The rules, prepared by the provincial home and tribal affairs department, include detail provisions about different important aspects of the Juvenile Justice System Act, 2018.
An official said that the provincial caretaker cabinet gave approvalto the rules in its meeting on Wednesday night. The rules would be notified after minutes of the meeting were released

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6. Rising poverty, food insecurity, inflation continue to haunt Pakistanis, says MoF

Pakistan continues to face five major and persistent economic challenges, resulting in rising poverty and social vulnerabilities, said the Ministry of Finance a day after the national assembly and the federal cabinet were dissolved.
In its first quarterly performance report to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on $1.5bn Building Resilience with Active Country-cyclical Expenditures(BRACE)released on Thursday, the Ministry of Finance said the financial progress remained satisfactory on Countrycyclical Development Expenditure Programme (CDEP) in the quarter ending Dec 31, 2022 as 41.5pc of the budget for the fiscal, under social proteetion, was utilise d.It said the current expenditures increased by 30pc to Rs6.061 trillion in JulyDecember FY23 against Rs4.676tr in the comparable period of the last year. The bulk of this rise stemmed from a sharp rise in mark-up payments which grew by 77pc driven by higher servicing on domestic and foreign debt due to a higher level of interest rates. Public Sector Development Programme (federal and provincial) grew by just 4.5pc during the first half of the current fiscal year

7. West African bloc activates force for possible Niger intervention

The West African bloc ECOWAS on Thursday ordered the activation of a standby force for possible use against the junta that took power in Niger in July, saying it wanted a peaceful restoration of democracy but all options including force were on the table.
After a summit of its heads of state in the Nigerian capital Abuja, the bloc pledged to enforce sanctions, travel bans and asset freezes on those preventing the return to power of democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
`No option is taken off the table, including the use of force as a last resort,` said Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, the ECOWAS chair

8. Iran, US to free prisoners under swap deal

Iran agreed to release four American-Iranian dual nationals from Tehran`s Evin prison under a prisoner exchange deal between Tehran and Washington, its mission to the United Nations said on Thursday.
`Under the deal mediated by a third country, five Iranians jailed in the United States will be released and Iran`s frozen funds in South Korea will be unblocked and transferred to Qatar,` it said, according to state news agency IRNA

9. Presidential candidate assassinated in Ecuador

Ecuador was under a state of emergency on Thursday after the assassination of a popular presidential candidate just days before an election dominated by concerns over the once-peaceful country`s descent into brutal violence linked to drug trafficking.
Fernando Villavicencio, a 59-year-old journalist and anti-corruption crusader, was killed in a hail of machine gun fire as he left a campaign rally in the capital Quito

10. Modi staves off no-trust vote

The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defeated a no-confidence motion in parliament on Thursday after a fiery speech by the premier at the climax of a three-day debate.
Opposition lawmakers who had brought the motion over months of ethnic violence in Manipur state walked out of the chamber, prompting a furious rebuke from the premier, with the government then winning the vote.

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