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February 27, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs
1. Bomb blast rips through Barkhan market; four dead
• At least four people lost their lives and 16 others suffered injuries in a bomb blast at the main market of Rakhni town of Barkhan district in Balochistan, on February 26, 2023, officials said.
• Separately, an attack on a police vehicle left four policemen, including the station house officer, injured in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• The Rakhni blast rocked the small town, close to the border with Punjab.
• The Barkhan deputy commissioner and a senior police official told that an improvised explosive device was fitted to a motorcycle which was detonated remotely
2. PTI-backed Mohsin wins Rajanpur by-election
• Mohsin Leghari of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) won the by-election to NA-193 (Rajanpur) with a huge margin on February 26, 2023, unofficial result shows.
• According to the unofficial result, Mr Mohsin bagged 90,392 votes as compared to 55,218 and 20,074 votes secured by Ammar Awais Khan Leghari of the Pakistan Muslim League-N and Akhtar Hassan Khan Gorchani of Pakistan Peoples Party, respectively.
• While congratulating Mr Mohsin, PTI Chairman Imran Khan expressed the fear that the victory would `scare` the government and its `handlers`
3. Shehbaz constitutes austerity monitoring committee
• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on February 26, 2023 formally constituted a committee to monitor the implementation of `ambitious` austerity measures announced a few days ago.
• A notification regarding the constitution of the committee was issued at the directive of the prime minister.
• The seven-member committee included Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain, IT and Telecommunication Minister Syed Aminul Haque, Law and Justice Minister Azam Nazeer Tarrar, National Food Security and Research Minister Tariq Bashir Cheema, PM`s advisor on Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs Qamar Zaman Kaira and Minister of State for Power Hashim Notezai, said a press release issued by the PM Office
4. 345m people will be food insecure in 2023: WFP
• On the basis of estimates from countries where it has operational presence and available data, the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has indicated that 345.2 million people will be food insecure in 2023. This is an increase of almost 200m people since early 2020.
• In many countries, Covid-19 and ripple effects of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine exacerbated preexisting needs, pushing more people into food insecurity, according to the latest update of `WFP Global Operational Response Plan 2022` released on Friday.
• An estimated 43.3m people in 51 countries are in emergency or worse levels of acute food insecurity in 2023, including severely food insecure
5. `Embezzled` Lebanese cash in Swiss banks
• Banks in Switzerland are holding a substantial amount of millions of dollars Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh is accused of embezzling, Swiss media reported on February 26, 2023.
• Salameh, 72, faces investigations related to suspicions of money laundering and illicit enrichment in Lebanon and abroad after he amassed a fortune in the country mired in financial crisis.
• A Lebanese judge on Thursday filed new charges against Salameh, his brother Raja and his former assistant Marianne Hoayek for embezzlement of public funds and money laundering
