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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 20 2023) for CSS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 20 2023) for CSS
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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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6. US Treasury takes unusual steps to avoid looming default

• The US Treasury began taking measures on January 19, 2023 to prevent a default on government debt, as Congress heads towards a high-stakes clash between Democrats and Republicans over raising the borrowing limit.
• Such `extraordinary measures` can help reduce the amount of outstanding debt subject to the limit, currently set at $31.4 trillion, but the Treasury has warned that the tools would only help for a limited time likely not longer than six months.
• `I respectfully urge Congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States, said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a letter to Congressional leadership on Thursday. She added that there is `considerable uncertainty` on how long the measures can last before risking default

7. Arab-Israeli reunited with family

• An Arab-Israeli jailed for killing an Israeli soldier was released on January 19, 2023 after serving 40 years, officials said, with Israel warning it would not tolerate celebrations glorifying `terror` Maher Younis was released from Beersheba prison in southern Israel shortly after dawn, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said.
• Younis was convicted in 1983 of the 1980 murder of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg near Hadera in the north of Israel, on his way home from the occupied Golan Heights. His death sentence was commuted to a 40-year jail term.
• Hundreds gathered outside Younis` family home in the northern Israeli village of Arara as the 62-year-old returned home, with a young woman in tears as she placed a garland of flowers around Younis` neck

8. Iran slams EU parliament for urging terror label on Guards

• Iran condemned on January 19, 2023 a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, which would pave the way for sanctions against the powerful military force.
• Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian `strongly criticised the emotional approach of the European Parliament and labelled the move inappropriate and incorrect`, in a phone call with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
• Amir-Abdollahian called the resolution from Wednesday `harsh and unprofessional` and warned the EU must `think about the negative consequences of this emotional behaviour`

9. German parliament recognises Yazidi `genocide` in Iraq

• Germany`s lower house of parliament recognised on January 19, 2023 the 2014 massacre of Yazidis by the militant Islamic State group in Iraq as a `genocide` and called for measures to assist the besieged minority.
• In a move hailed by Yazidi community representatives, deputies in the Bundestag passed the motion by the three parliamentary groups in Germany`s ruling centre-left-led coalition and conservative MPs.
• The chamber `recognises the crimes against the Yazidi community as genocide, following the legal evaluations of investigators from the United Nations,` the resolution said, after similar moves by countries including Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands

10. Last Nizam of Hyderabad bows out

• Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the last Nizam of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, passed away in Istanbul on Saturday and was laid to rest on Wednesday in the city from where his paternal ancestors had ruled a fabulously rich realm.
• While the late Nizam was the heir to his paternal grandfather, Mir Osman Ali Khan, what is lesser known is that Mukarram Jah was also designated as the successor of his maternal grandfather Sultan Abdulmajid II, the last Ottoman Caliph, combining in his persona heirship to India`s grandest princely state, as well as the storied Ottoman Caliphate.
• According to TR T World,Mukarram Jah was 89, while as per the Press Trust of India the last Nizam was laid to rest next to his father Azam Jah after Asr prayers with state honours.

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