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February 12, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Mob storms police station, lynches `blasphemy` accused

• A middle-aged man was lynched outside a police station in Nankana Sahib by a violent mob on February 11, 2023 over allegations of blasphemy, prompting the police chief to order an inquiry and suspend the Nankana DSP and relevant SHO.
• Muhammad Waris, 45, of Nankana`s Qazi Town area, was first detained by locals over alleged desecration of the Holy Quran early in the morning, as per the police. Locals were planning to `hang the suspect` when police officials arrived on the scene and moved him to the local police station.
• However, the mob, which continued to swell in number, followed the party to the police station and tried to take hold of the suspect. Officials locked Mr Waris inside the police station but the mob gathered outside the building and continued demanding custody of the accused.

2. Three security men martyred in N. Waziristan terror attack

• Three security personnel embraced martyrdom and 22 others, including civilians, sustained wounds when a convoy of security forces came under attack in Mir Ali sub-division of the North Waziristan district on February 11, 2023.
• The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Local officials said a convoy of security forces and employees of the Marri Petroleum Company was on its way from North Waziristan to Bannu when a rickshaw struck the forces` vehicle in Khajori area of the sub-division

3. AJK cabinet approves elementary and secondary education policy

• The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet has accorded approval in principle to a proposed elementary and secondary education policy (2023-2040), whereby it would be mandatory for each child to acquire education.
• The cabinet meeting, which was presided over by Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, decided to launch an awareness campaign on the importance of education under the slogan of `model schools, model society` targeting in particular the out-of-school children.
• Under the proposed policy, the academic year would begin from March. Among other features, the primary students would be provided books free of cost and a teachers` training academy would be established to raise the professional capacity of teachers and subsequently the educational standard of the state

4. Pakistan to share action plan on business, human rights with Nepal

• The Ministry of Human Rights has hosted officials from Nepal to share its experience in developing and implementing a policy that seeks to protect human rights in all forms of business activity.
• Pakistan, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched its first National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP) in December 2021, becoming the first country in South Asia to have this policy.
• Pakistan is now helping other countries to learn from its experience. In this regard, the human rights ministry held a session earlier this week for government officials from Nepal, which is currently drafting its own NAP

5. Govt implements revenue measures from 15th to secure $1.2bn tranche early

• In light of an unexpected relief in tax measures from the International Monetary Fund, the government has decided to take a proactive approach and implement tax and non-tax measures from Feb 15 instead of March 1 the purported deadline proposed by the global lender to secure quick release of $1.2 billion tranche.
• Ahead of the start of much-delayed talks, the government was expecting that the IMF would ask for approximately Rs400 billion in tax and nontax measures, but as policy-level talks came to a close both sides agreed on Rs170bn collection from tax and nontax measures in the next four and a half months.
• Official sources privy to talks told Dawn that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has already drafted two ordinances to impose Rs100 billion in new taxes and Rs100bn in flood levy on imports. `We were expecting more demands from the Fund in the areas of taxes`, the sources said, adding things have changed in the last two days of policy level negotiations

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February 11, 2022: International Current Affairs MCQs

6. Belgian lawmaker charged in EU graft probe

• Prosecutors on February 11, 2023 charged a Belgian lawmaker in the European parliament with corruption after searching his bank safe as part of a probe into a bribery scandal linked to Qatar that has rocked the EU.
• The Socialist deputy Marc Tarabella, 59, was detained by police on Friday after Belgium`s federal prosecutors said raids were carried out targeting his safe in the city of Liege and offices in the town hall of Anthisnes, where he is mayor.
• Eric van der Sijpt, spokesman for the prosecutor`s office, said Tarabella had been indicted on charges of corruption, money laundering and for `participating in a criminal organisation`, as part of the Belgian investigation into suspected bribery linked to Qatar and Morocco

7. Bangladesh withdraws school books after protests

• Bangladesh said on February 11, 2023 it had withdrawn two new school textbooks after protests from some groups incensed by a curriculum overhaul to recognise transgender identities, same-sex relationships and secular science.
• Thousands have demonstrated in the capital Dhaka since last month demanding that the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) scrap the changes to the books, published for students aged 11 to 13.
• One section of the new history and social science book narrates the story of a child called Sharif who transitions, takes the female name Sharifa and goes to live with other transgender people.
• The state-run NCTB said it took the decision to withdraw the books `due to some criticisms and to reduce reading load on students`

8. Biden, Lula vow to defend democracy in Americas

• President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday at the White House that the two biggest countries in the Americas have successfully seen off attacks on their democracies and will now work together on fighting the climate crisis.
• `Both our nations` strong democracies have been tested,` Biden told Lula, and `both in the United States and Brazil, democracy prevailed.` Meeting in the Oval Office, Biden and Lula expressed solidarity over their similar paths.
• Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020, but two months later, a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress believing his conspiracy theory that he`d been the real election winner

9. Ukraine says Russia launched new wave of aerial attacks

• Ukraine has said that Russia had launched a major new wave of aerial attacks, as President Joe Biden announced he would mark one year since the invasion by visiting Kyiv`s neighbour Poland.
• Strikes were reported from the eastern region of Kharkiv to the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk, a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Brussels to lobby EU leaders for long-range weapons and fighter jets.
• Zelensky said on Friday Russian missiles had crossed over ex-Soviet Moldova and Nato member Romania while heading to Ukraine, though Bucharest denied the claim

10. Popular S. African rapper AKA shot dead

• One of South Africa`s hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said on February 11, 2023.
• The 35-year-old won multiple South African awards, was nominated several times for a Black Entertainment Television (BE T) Award in the United States, and was once nominated for an MTV Europe Music Award.
• `It is with extreme sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our beloved son, `his parents Tony and Lynn Forbes said in a statement posted on AKA`s Twitter account

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