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February 18, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Police compound cleared as terror revisits Karachi

• Security forces cleared a five-storey police compound on the port city`s main thoroughfare in an hours-long operation during which three militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed while two policemen, one Rangers official and a citizen embraced martyrdom on February 17, 2023 evening.
• At least 19 men, mostly police and Rangers officials, sustained injuries in the exchange of fire with militants who stormed the heavily guarded Karachi Police Office after lobbing a hand grenade at its main entrance, police and hospital officials said.
• The outlawed TTP on the social media claimed responsibility for the latest ambush, which came as a grim reminder of attacks on Bannu CTD complex and Peshawar Police Lines mosque in recent months

2. PM vows maximum help to Turkish quake victims

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited earthquake-hit areas and victims on his second day of visit to Turkiye and vowed to continue providing maximum assistance to Ankara in its rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.
• The prime minister expressed these views as he handed over relief goods, mainly winterised and fireproof tents, to Turkish officials during his visit to the south-eastern Turkish city of Adiyaman.
• Later, Mr Sharif left for Pakistan after completing the two-day visit aimed at conveying condolences to the Turkish people

3. TTP commander killed in clash with CTD

• A key commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed in an armed clash with the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) at Kalabagh area of Mianwali city late on Thursday night.
• It was the second major attack by the TTP this month in Mianwali which shares the border with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the security forces were confronting with the same banned militant organisation.
• Earlier, in the first week of this month, the Mianwali police had averted a massive attack by TTP men on a police station

4. Covid-19 pandemic created 1.6m idle youth in Pakistan, says WB report

• A new World Bank report on the impact of Covid-19 on South Asia`s youth says the pandemic has created 1.6 million additional idle youth in Pakistan. The report says pre-school enrollment at the end of 2021 was down by more than 15 percentage points in Pakistan.
• Enrollment among Pakistani children between the ages of six and 14 dropped by six percentage points once schools reopened, and 7.6 million children in the country alone have dropped out of school.
• The new report, `Collapse and Recovery: How Covid Eroded Human Capital and What to Do About It` released on Thursday, presents the first comprehensive analysis of global data on the pandemic`s impact on young people at key developmental stages: early childhood (0-5 years), school age (6-14 years), and youth (1524 years). It finds that in South Asia, today`s students could lose up to 14.4 per cent of their future earnings due to Covid-19-induced education loss

5. Agreement for e-parking regime

• To enhance security and overcome corruption and vehicle parking issues, the Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) and the Lahore Parking Company signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a digitized parking project, the first of its kind in Lahore city.
• PSCA Chief Technology Officer Tariq Malik and Lahore Parking Company CEO Faisal Wasim signed the agreement at the Authority office here on Friday.
• The PSCA has developed a parking application for the Lahore Parking Company, a spokesperson for the authority said

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6. 53 killed in Syria attack blamed on IS

• At least 53 civilians were killed in an attack in Syria`s central desert province of Homs, state media reported on Friday, blaming the militant Islamic State group.
• US Central Command earlier said an IS leader was killed and four US troops were wounded in a US helicopter raid in northeast Syria. It said a raid the previous day targeted and killed a `senior leader` named as Hamza al-Homsi who oversaw the group`s network in eastern Syria.
• The bodies of all victims taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency SANA cited the hospital`s chief as saying

7. US envoy apologises for `inappropriate` tweets about Afghan women

• The top US diplomat to Afghanistan apologised on Thursday for tweets that suggested struggling Afghan women might find inspiration in African American history and culture, particularly the #BlackGirlMagic social media movement.
• US envoy Karen Decker tweeted that several of her posts earlier in the week went `awry` despite her `best intentions` when she suggested Afghan women could learn from examples such as pop culture icons Beyonce and Lizzo.
• Her comments sparked online indignation from users who objected to the seemingly tone deaf comments about the plight of Afghan women, who have seen their rights severely curtailed since the Taliban swept back to power in 2021

8. Interfaith centre houses UAE`s first synagogue

• The United Arab Emirates has opened a centre housing a mosque, church and the country`s first official synagogue with the aim of promoting interfaith coexistence in the Muslim nation.
• The oil-rich Gulf federation, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, is home to a small but active Jewish community that usually prays in private.
• With three houses of worship in the same place, the Abrahamic Family House, inaugurated on Thursday in the capital Abu Dhabi, is the first of its kind. `The centre will be a platform for learning and dialogue, a model of coexistence,` said its president, Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak

9. US wooing India away from Russia with display of bombers

• The United States brought its most advanced fighter jet, the F-35, to India for the first time this week alongside F-16s, Super Hornets and B-1B bombers as Washington looks to woo New Delhi away from its traditional military supplier, Russia.
• India, desperate to modernise its largely Sovietera fighter jet fleet to boost its air power, is concerned about Russian supply delays due to the Ukraine war and faces pressure from the West to distance itself from Moscow.
• The American delegation to the week-long Aero India show in Bengaluru, which ends on Friday, is the biggest in the 27-year history of the show and underlines the growing strategic relationship between the United States and India

10. LHC ex-judge Malik Qayyum passes away

• Former judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Malik Muhammad Qayyum passed away on February 17, 2023. He was 78.
• His funeral prayers were offered at Jamia Ashrafia after Friday prayers. He was laid to rest in the Miani Sahib graveyard. Members of the legal and political fraternity attended his funeral.
• Justice Qayyum was born on Dec 18, 1944, to Muhammad Akram, who was also a judge of the LHC and the Supreme Court.
• Justice Akram was a member of a five-judge bench of the LHC that handed down death penalty to former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

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