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February 03, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Terror surge provides govt opportunity to negotiate with arch-rivals

• In a move that is being seen as a significant development amid rising political temperatures in the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on January 2, 2023 convened a multiparty conference (MPC) to discuss `important challenges` being faced by Pakistan.
• According to an announcement by Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, the MPC will be held in Islamabad on Feb 7, for which an invitation has also been extended to PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan.
• The invitation to the PTI was formally delivered to party leaders Pervez Khattak and Asad Qaiser by former speaker and federal minister, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq

2. Shehzad Ata Elahi to be new AGP

• After a four-month hiatus, the federal government finally on January 2, 2023 appointed Barrister Shehzad Ata Elahi, a young lawyer from Lahore, as the 37th Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP).
• After the resignation of former AGP Ashtar Ausaf Ali in October and the disinterest shown by Mansoor Usman Awan, the name of Shehzad Elahi had been making the rounds for quite some time for appointment as the country`s top law officer.
• Barrister Elahi is a grandson of former president Fazal Elahi Chaudhry, who served as the country`s head of state from 1973 to 1978. He confirmed to Dawn on Thursday that he had been appointed to the top office

3. Caretaker cabinet members allotted portfolios

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker government has assigned portfolios to 14 member of the cabinet.
• A notification issued by the cabinet wing of the administration department stated that under the sub-rule 4 of the KP Rules of Business 1985, the caretaker chief minister has assigned cabinet berths to the ministers.
• It said that Syed Masood Shah has been allotted portfolios of establishment and administration and inter-provincial coordination departments. Similarly, Abdul Haleem Qusriya has also been given two charges of the agriculture and livestock, fisheries and cooperative departments

4. Federal govt servants must disclose assets to open bank accounts

• Acceding to another demand of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government has finally allowed banks access to asset declarations of civil servants of BS17-22 as a prior condition for the opening of bank accounts as part of good governance and anti-corruption measures.
• Banks will access the asset data of federal employees in the first phase at the time of opening bank accounts, a senior tax official told Dawn on Thursday. The conditionality is expected to extend to provincial employees as well in the next phase.
• The official further said that access to assets has no revenue implications. This is a due diligence measure under the anti-money laundering act 2010.
• However, the banks will keep the information confidential from the public and will not release it at any cost to the general public

5. Chinese nationals asked to hire private firms for security

• After an increase in terrorism incidents in the country, the Punjab Home Department has directed the Chinese nationals living in the province or working with private companies to hire private security companies of ‘A’ category for their security.
• The home department and police held a meeting on Thursday to review the security of the Chinese nationals working on government and private projects in the province.
• In 2014, the Punjab government had established the Special Protection Unit (SPU) as a dedicated unit for the security of foreigners working at different projects of national importance. As many as 3,336 security constables, 187 drivers, 20 wireless operators, 244 former army personnel in the rank of senior security constable to chief security officer and seven former army officers in the rank of additional director & deputy director were recruited in the SPU

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February 03, 2022: International Current Affairs MCQs

6. Russia keeps up pressure ahead of EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv

• President Vladimir Putin evoked the spirit of the Soviet army that defeated Nazi German forces at Stalingrad 80 years ago to declare on Thursday that Russia would defeat a Ukraine supposedly in the grip of a new incarnation of Nazism.
• While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was building up its troops to take `revenge` on the West nearly a year into Moscow`s invasion.
• He levelled the warning in Kyiv alongside EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, who said the 27-member bloc was looking to finalise another pacl(age of sanctions against Russia by February 24, exactly one year since Russia invaded

7. Philippines expands US access to four bases

• The United States and the Philippines announced a deal on January 2, 2023 to give US troops access to another four bases in the Southeast Asian nation, as the longtime allies seek to counter China`s military rise.
• The agreement to expand cooperation in `strategic areas of the country` was made during a visit by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. The development came as the countries seek to repair ties that were fractured in recent years.
• Previous Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte favoured China over his country`s former colonial master, but the new administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been keen to reverse that

8. Australia to remove British monarch from currency notes

• Australia will remove the British monarch from its currrency notes, replacing the late Queen Elizabeth II`s image on its $5 note with a design honouring Indigenous culture, the central bank said on Thursday.
• The decision to leave her successor King Charles III off the $5 note means no monarch would remain on Australia`s paper currency.
• The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said it would consult Indigenous people on a new design that `honours the culture and history of the First Australians`

9. Israel, Sudan to work for `peace accord`

• Israel and Sudan agreed to work for a peace agreement during a visit by the Jewish state`s foreign minister to Khartoum on January 2, 2023.
• It was the first visit by an Israeli official formally acknowledged by Sudan, although there have been a series of exchanges between officials from the two countries in recent years.
• Sudan agreed to take steps to normalise ties with Israel in a 2020 deal brokered by former US president Donald Trump`s administration, alongside normalisation agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, known as the `Abraham Accords`

10. Muslim-majority Chad opens embassy in Israel

• Chadian President Mahamat Deby, in Israel to open an embassy on January 2, 2023, heard his hosts` concern about what they described as the clout of their arch-foes Iran and Hezbollah in Africa`s Sahel region.
• Israel only confirmed Deby`s visit on Wednesday, a day after he arrived. The trip included a rare stop at the Mossad intelligence headquarters a sign that bilateral ties re-established five years ago have national security importance.
• Chad`s embassy is in Ramat Gan, a town abutting Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s office said. `This is a great day, an historic day for Chad and for Israel, too,` Deby said in a videotape of the inauguration

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