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February 24, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs
1. Alvi signs fresh finance bill into law
• President Arif Alvi on February 23, 2023 gave accent to the Finance (Supplementary) bill, 2023, generally known as the mini-budget, paving the way for revival of the IMF loan programme.
• The president gave the approval to the bill in accordance with Article 75 of the Constitution, the media wing of the President House said. The National Assembly had passed the bill on Monday.
• The bill envisages additional taxes and duties worth Rs170 billion to meet the conditions of the International Monetary Fund for the revival of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) stalled for months
2. SC judges air divergent views in poll date suo motu
• The nine-member Supreme Court bench conducting suo motu proceedings regarding delay in the announcement of a date for provincial elections, appeared at odds on February 23, 2023, as it issued notices to the stakeholders and asked them to come up with `skeleton arguments` on February 24, 2023 (today).
• Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Shehzad Ata Elahi, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), government through the cabinet secretary, chief secretaries of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), all the advocate generals of the provinces, and the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) were also issued notices
3. Pakistan concerned over Ukraine war
• Pakistan on February 23, 2023 expressed concern over the continuing Ukraine war that is entering its second year and urged the parties to the conflict to seek its resolution through dialogue.
• `We have always advocated for peaceful settlement of disputes and believe that peace and dialogue are important in resolution of this conflict as well,` Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on the eve of the first anniversary of invasion of Ukraine by Russia on Feb 24.
• She said the continuation of the conflict was a `reflection of the failure of diplomacy`
4. Eight militants killed after troops foil ambush bid
• Security forces foiled an attempt to ambush a convoy of security forces in Balochistan`s Kech district and later killed eight militants in a follow-up operation, the military`s media wing said on February 23, 2023.
• According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the militants attempted to ambush a convoy of security forces on Wednesday evening, but the `alert and combat ready troops foiled the cowardly attempt without any loss of life`.
• The security forces later conducted a follow-up operation to hunt down the assailants using `ground and aviation assets`, the ISPR said
5. `A woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy, childbirth`
• Every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest estimates released in a report by United Nations agencies, which emphasised that the world must significantly accelerate progress to meet global targets for reducing maternal deaths, or else risk the lives of over one million more women by 2030.
• The report, `Trends in Maternal Mortality`, released on Thursday by WHO, Unicef, UNFPA, the World Bank and UN Population Division, reveals alarming setbacks for women`s health over recent years, as maternal deaths either increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world.
• `It is unacceptable that so many women continue to die needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth. Over 280,000 fatalities in a single year are unconscionable,` said UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem
