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January 20, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs
1. NAB tweaks do not `abridge` fundamentals of Constitution, SC told
• The changes to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) have not `abridged` the fundamentals of the Constitution or eroded the `concept of public trust and accountability`, said Makhdoom Ali Khan, counsel representing the federal government in a petition against NAB amendments.
• The counsel was arguing before a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial that had taken up challenges to the Aug 2022 amendments to the NAB law by former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
• Makhdoom Ali Khan emphasised that when the parliament legislates a law to be applied with retrospective effect then it also reserves the right to repeal the same law.
• He added right from the Ehtesab (Amendment) Ordinance of 1998 to NAO of 1999, all of these laws have been applied with retrospective effect
2. Govt ready to meet all IMF demands to revive loan programme
• Conveying its willingness to accept all the four major conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government on January 19, 2023 requested the lender to send its mission to Pakistan at the earliest, preferably next week, to conclude a long-awaited agreement to revive the loan programme.
• `We have completed our workings on all four areas on the basis of our interactions on the sidelines of the Geneva conference,` a senior member of the government told Dawn after weeklong consultations, including at least two sessions presided over by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif through a video link from Lahore.
• `We are ready to move ahead with reforms committed under the programme and we plan to implement all decisions during the course of talks with the proposed IMF mission,` the official said
3. Terrorist attack on police post leaves three dead in Khyber
• Three persons including two policemen and a cook were killed when terrorists attacked a checkpost in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber tribal district on January 19, 2023 evening.
• Khyber DPO Mohammad Imran told journalists that terrorists conducted a three pronged coordinated attack at Takhtabeg check post on the main Peshawar-Torkham Highway at around 7:30pm.
• He said that the attackers, including a suicide bomber, initially hurled hand grenades at the police post alongside resort-ing to indiscriminate firing which resulted in the killing of a policeman on the spot while critically injuring two others including a cook
4. Cabinet gets its 77th member amid cost-cutting
• As the government scrambles to save every penny and introduce cost-cutting measures, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added another special assistant to his cabinet.
• The already hefty cabinet has now swelled to 77 with the induction of Fahd Haroon who was appointed special assistant to the prime minister.
• `The Prime Minister has been pleased to appoint Mr. Fahd Haroon, as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister with the status of Minister of State, with immediate effect,` reads a notification issued by the cabinet division
5. ECP notifies Imran`s victory on seven NA seats
• The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on January 19, 2023 notified the victory of PTI Chairman Imran Khan from seven National Assembly constituencies in by-polls held in October, taking a lenient view of his delay in submitting election expense details.
• The notification earlier withheld after Mr Khan failed to submit the details of by-poll expenses within the stipulated time was issued hours after the commission announced a reserved verdict condoning the delay.
• The decision comes at a time when the PTI chief is planning to break his own record by contesting by-polls on all 33 National Assembly seats that fell vacant after Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf accepted long-pending resignations of party lawmakers, apparently to derail PTPs return to the house
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