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January 22, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Interim CM takes oath in KP, promises `fair polls`

• The caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azam Khan, on January 21, 2023 was administered oath by Governor Ghulam Ali in a solemn ceremony held at Governor House in Peshawar.
• Azam Khan, who has served as the KP chief secretary, was finalised as a joint candidate for the CM slot in a meeting between former CM Mahmood Khan and then opposition leader Al(ram Khan Durrani at the Speaker`s House on Friday night.
• In a media talk after the oath taking, CM Khan while vowing to cooperate with the Election Commission of Pakistan said the `free and fair` elections in the province would be his top priority as the caretaker chief executive

2. ECP to select caretaker CM for Punjab today

• After a bi-partisan parliamentary committee formed by the Punjab Assembly speaker failed to reach a consensus in the stipulated time, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will meet in the evening to pick the caretaker chief minister for Punjab.
• The meeting chaired by ECP Chief Sikandar Sultan Raja will be preceded by informal deliberations between the CEC and members of the commission to pave way for a consensus on the decision regarding the matter.
• The election watchdog has only Sunday to decide on the nominee for the caretaker CM slot as the two-day time given to the commission under Article 224-A of the Constitution will be expiring today. A senior official of the ECP explained that the commission could not meet a day earlier as it officially received the names of four nominees from PA Speaker Sibtain Khan on January 21, 2023.

3. Isolating women isolates Kabul, UN tells Taliban

• In a clear message to Kabul`s de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis, it cannot afford to do so.
• The high-level UN delegation that visited Afghanistan this week, also urged the international community to support Afghan women.
• UN legal experts, in another statement, described the `collapse of the rule of law and judicial independence` in Afghanistan as `a human rights catastrophe`

January 21, 2022: International Current Affairs MCQs

4. Covid outbreak infected 80pc of population, says China

• The possibility of a big Covid-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80 per cent of people have been infected, a prominent government scientist said on January 21, 2023.
• The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in some areas, but a second Covid wave is unlikely in the near term, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the Weibo social media platform.
• Hundreds of millions of Chinese are travelling across the country for holiday reunions that had been suspended under recently eased Covid curbs, raising fears of fresh outbreaks in rural areas less equipped to manage large outbreaks

5. Peru closes tourist site Machu Picchu due to protests

• Peru has closed its famed tourist site Machu Picchu amid anti-government protests, its Ministry of Culture said on January 21, 2023, with hundreds of tourists having been left stranded near the Inca citadel amid deadly unrest.
• Demonstrations demanding the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte have been ongoing since early December, leaving 46 people dead and prompting the government to impose a state of emergency in violence-hit areas

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6. Iranian currency falls to record low amid isolation and sanctions

• Iran`s troubled currency fell to a record low against the US dollar on January 21, 2023 amid the country`s increasing isolation and possible European Union sanctions against Tehran`s Revolutionary Guards or some of its members.
• Ties between the EU and Tehran have deteriorated in recent months as efforts to revive nuclear talks have stalled. Iran has detained several European nationals and the bloc has become increasingly critical of the violent treatment of protesters and the use of executions.
• The EU is discussing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran and diplomatic sources have said members of the Revolutionary Guards will be added to the bloc`s sanctions list next week

7. `Pretty decisive` Hipkins set to become New Zealand`s PM

• After being chosen as his party`s only candidate to replace Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand`s incoming prime minister Chris Hipkins vowed on Saturday to `get things done` and win a looming October general elections.
• The 44-year-old red-headed politician emerged as the sole nominee to lead the ruling Labour Party in a meeting of fellow members of parliament, and now faces what is seen as the mere formality of a confirmation by his colleagues on Sunday.
• As leader of the party, he will take over as the country`s 41st prime minister following Ardern`s shock resignation on Thursday. Ardern said she would step down by February 7 but could do so earlier given that her successor was chosen in barely 48 hours

8. Berlin faces backlash over refusal to give Kyiv tanks

• Germany faced a strong backlash from allies on January 21, 2023 over its refusal to supply Ukraine with its vaunted Leopard tanks to bolster its fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with Russia.
• Some 50 nations on Friday agreed to provide Kyiv with billions of dollars` worth of military hardware including armoured vehicles and munitions needed to push back Russian forces.
• On the sidelines of an event at the US Ramstein Air Base, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters that despite heightened expectations, `we still cannot say when a decision will be taken, and what the decision will be, when it comes to the Leopard tank

9. Air India fined over mid-air urination scandal

• Air India has been fined $37,000 for its handling of an incident in which a drunk senior US bank executive was accused of urinating on a female passenger, Indian media reported.
• The man allegedly relieved himself on the 72-yearold woman seated in business class on a November 26 flight from New York to New Delhi, an incident dubbed `peegate` by the media.
• The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation also fined Air India`s director of in-flight services 300,000 rupees in addition to the carrier`s penalty of three million rupees ($37,000), reports on Friday and Saturday said

10. Israeli kills Palestinian after alleged stabbing attempt

• An Israeli civilian shot dead a Palestinian on January 21, 2022 at a settler farm in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing, the army said, the latest incident as violence surges in the territory.
• While confirming a civilian had shot dead a Palestinian, the Israeli military said a `terrorist was neutralised` during the `attempted stabbing attack` at Sde Efraim farm, northwest of Ramallah.
• The Palestinian health ministry said 42-year-old Tariq Maali was killed `after the occupation (Israeli forces) opened fire on him` near the Palestinian village of Kafr Nama

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