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February 25, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Apex body links peace with political, economic stability

• The country`s top civil and military leadership have forged a consensus that terrorism, economic revival and political stability are interconnected and without political stability and economic progress, there can be no peace.
• A meeting of the Central Apex Committee was held on Friday, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
• The committee which comprises top civil and military leadership met against the backdrop of the Feb 17 attack on police headquarters in Karachi and the Jan 30 attack on Peshawar`s Police Lines mosque.
• The moot was attended by Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir, federal ministers, chief ministers of all four provinces and Gilgit Baltistan, the AJK prime minister and other senior officials

2. Pakistan abstains from voting on Ukraine resolution

• Pakistan is among the 32 countries that abstained from voting in the UN General Assembly on February 23, 2023 on a resolution that rejected the forcible acquisition of land, and called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
• More than 60 countries, including the United States and major European powers, moved the resolution in the General Assembly`s 11th emergency session on Thursday, a day before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• The resolution, which stressed that the Russian invasion violated the principles of the UN Charter, received 141 votes in favour, seven against, and was adopted by the assembly

3. LHC restores district status of Murree

• The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on February 24, 2023 restored district status of Murree by suspending the notification issued by the caretaker government of Punjab.
• The LHC single member bench comprising Justice Sultan Tanvir Ahmad issued the interim suspension order while hearing the petition of residents of Murree who were aggrieved of the notification of Feb 15 passed by the Board of Revenue, Punjab.
• The petitioners included Raja Shaukat Ali Abbasi, Abdul Jabbar Satti, Shakeel Abbasi and Akhlag Abbasi. Barrister Hamza Anwar Abbasi and Saima Anwar Abbasi represented the petitioners.
• The counsel argued that Murree has been designated as a district by the former Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi

4. $1bn deal signed with Uzbekistan to boost trade

• Pakistan and Uzbekistan have signed an agreement to increase bilateral trade by almost $1 billion, the finance ministry said on February 24, 2023.
• The trade agreement was inked at the conclusion of the 8th Session of Pakistan-Uzbekistan Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) on Trade Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation held in Tashkent.
• Finance Minister Ishaq Dar headed Pakistan`s delegation.
• An official announcement of the finance ministry said that the most important outcome of the IGC was the signing of the $1bn trade agreement, which will encourage the exchange of goods and services and will also ease the transit process

5. Local elections postponed in Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka`s election commission indefinitely postponed local polls on February 24, 2023 after the president installed by parliament last year after his predecessor fled refused to fund the vote.
• The March 9 polls would only have picked local councilors, but would be the first electoral test for Ranil Wickremesinghe since he took office in July after months of protests over the island`s worst-ever economic crisis.
• They were seen by many as a de facto referendum on unpopular austerity measures he has imposed as he seeks to secure an International Monetary Fund bailout

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6. North Korea claims it has nuclear attack capability after US, South hold N-drill

• North Korea said on February 24, 2023 it had fired cruise missiles and claimed that ramped-up US-South Korea military drills `can be regarded as a declaration of war`.
• It came after the two allies conducted a table top exercise at the Pentagon focused on responses to a nuclear attack by Pyongyang.
• North Korean forces held a `strategic cruise missile launching drill` in the early hours of Thursday, firing four Hwasal-2s, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on February 24, 2023.
• The exercise demonstrated North Korea`s `deadly nuclear counterattack capability against the hostile forces`, it said

7. First Western tanks arrive in Ukraine

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on February 24, 2023 to do everything to defeat Russia this year, as the first Western tanks arrived in Kyiv on the first anniversary of Europe`s largest conflict since World War Two.
• German-made Leopard tanks from Warsaw arrived in Ukraine as Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited Kyiv to send a `clear and measurable signal of further support`.
• More Polish tanks will be sent soon, Morawiecki said, also offering to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F16 jets, as Western allies underlined their unwavering support

8. India opposes mention of `war` in G20 statement

• Germany and France insisted on February 24, 2023 that any joint statement from the ongoing G20 finance ministers meeting must refer to the Ukraine `war`, following reports that host India wanted to avoid the word.
• Organising a raft of Group of 20 meetings during its presidency this year puts India in an awkward position, as it has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine by its biggest arms supplier Russia.
• Indian media reports said New Delhi wanted to keep the word `war` out of any final statement from the meeting of finance ministers and central bank heads that wraps up in Bengaluru on Saturday

9. US slaps more sanctions on Russia over war

• The United States marked the first anniversary of Russia`s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023 by pledging another $2 billion in weaponry for Kyiv that prepares for a spring offensive and announcing new sanctions against Russia and its allies, new export controls and tariffs aimed at undermining Moscow`s ability to wage war.
• Also, global anti-money laundering watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday said it has suspended Russia`s membership over Moscow`s invasion of Ukraine.
• The US aid does not include F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has requested

10. Pakistan Super League Incredible Azam blows away Gladiators

• The attendance in the stands was far too less for a Friday night Pakistan Super League encounter. But when Azam Khan swung his bat for Islamabad United, the sparse crowd chanted his name in unison. It was the roar of a jam-packed venue.
• Azam`s show of power-hitting was exhilarating, exciting and worth every penny of the ticket price. For Quetta Gladiators, it was catastrophic. After Sarfraz Ahmed`s bowlers had reduced United to 71-4 by the halfway stage, the bulky right-hander went on to prove he was one of the best power-hitters in Pakistan, plundering the Quetta bowlers for 97 off 42 balls an innings studded with nine fours and eight jaw-dropping sixes

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