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July 05, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

1. Govt announces `Quran Sanctity Day` on 7th

• The government has designated July 7 (Friday) as Yaum-i-Tagaddus-i-Quran (day for the protection of the Holy Quran`s sanctity) to express outrage over the desecration incident in Sweden last week.
• In addition, parliament will hold a joint session on July 6 (Thursday) to convey the nation`s shock and grief through its highest representative forum and will also adopt a resolution to condemn the desecration.
• The decisions were announced after a meeting of the federal cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, to discuss the issue on Tuesday. It was decided that rallies would be held across the country on Friday to condemn the incident that occurred in Stockholm, the Swedish capital

2. PM calls out `state-backed terror` at SCO moot

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on July 4, 2023 tactfully assailed India over state sponsored terrorism, as he advocated for peace and stability in the region as a collective responsibility of members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
• In his remarks during the SCO Council of Heads of State Meeting, hosted by India in virtual format, the premier stressed that regional peace and stability were prerequisites for economic development.
• He added the `hydra-headed monster` of terrorism and extremism, whether carried out by individuals, or societies and states must be fought with `our full might`

3. GB high court disqualifies CM in fake degree case

• The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court disqualified Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid on July 4, 2023 on a charge of obtaining a licence from the region`s bar council based on a fake degree.
• The order was passed by a threejudge bench comprising Justice Malik Inayatur Rehman, Justice Johar Ali and Justice Mushtaq Muhammad on a petition seeking the disqualification of Mr Khurshid, who is also PTI`s regional president.
• Ghulam Shahzad Agha, a member of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly from PPP, earlier challenged Mr Khurshid`s law degree and sought his disqualification under articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution

4. Rupee jumps 3.8pc on IMF optimism

• The rupee sharply appreciated by 3.8 per cent, or Rs10.55, against the US dollar in the interbank market on July 4, 2023, reflecting the positive impact of the new deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• Currency dealers said the dollar initially lost about Rs15 but eventually settled at Rs275.44, resulting in a loss of Rs10.55.
• It was expected, according to currency experts, following Pakistan`s successful deal with the IMF for $3 billion over the next nine months. However, there was a feeling in the financial circle that the current deal with the IMF would be short-lived due to the country`s huge debt servicing requirement of $25bn in FY24

5. New note marks 75 years of SBP`s founding

• State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Jameel Ahmad unveiled on July 4, 2023 a commemorative banknote of Rs75 to mark the 75 years of the central bank`s founding.
• The banknote is predominantly blue, which has been chosen to impart a sense of stability associated with a central bank A distinctive feature of this new bank note is the inclusion of a stylised sketch of the SBP building by renowned calligrapher and artist Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi. The sketch shares space with the traditional portrait of the Quaid-i-Azam on the front of the banknote

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July 03, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs

6. Taliban order women`s beauty parlours to shut

• Afghanistan`s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed on July 4, 2023, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life.
• The order will force the closure of thousands of businesses run by women often the only source of income for households and outlaw one of the few remaining opportunities for them to socialise away from home.
• `I think it would have been good if women did not exist at all in this society,` said the manager of a Kabul parlour who asked not to be identified. `I am saying this now: I wish I did not exist. I wish we were not born in Afghanistan, or were not from Afghanistan.` Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public

7. Nato extends Stoltenberg`s term

• Nato decided on July 4, 2023 to extend Secretary General Jens Stoltenbergs contract by a further year, opting to stick with an experienced leader as war rages on the alliances doorstep rather than try to agree on a successor.
• Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, has been the transatlantic security alliances leader since 2014 and his tenure had already been extended three previous times.
• The decision means continuity at the top of Nato as its 31 members grapple with the challenge of supporting Ukraine in repelling Moscows invasion while avoiding a direct conflict between Nato and Russian forces

8. Israel winds down brutal operation in Jenin refugee camp

• Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Palestinian city of Jenin on July 4, 2023 after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years.
• Two witnesses said they saw convoys of Israeli military vehicles leaving Jenin in what appeared to signal an end to an Israeli operation that began there early on Monday.
• On Tuesday, Pakistan condemned the raids and airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin in the strongest possible terms

9. Egypt, Turkiye appoint envoys after a decade to upgrade ties

• Egypt and Turkiye said on July 4, 2023 they had appointed ambassadors to each other`s countries for the first time in a decade, in the latest sign of warming ties.
• Cairo and Anl(ara both issued statements announcing `the upgrading of diplomatic relations between them to the level of ambassadors`. The two foreign ministries said the move `aims at the renormalisation of relations between the two countries and reflects the mutual will to develop bilateral relations`.
• Egypt named Amr Elhamamy as its new ambassador in Ankara, while Turkiye named Salih Mutlu Sen as its ambassador in Cairo

10. Barrister Zahoorul Haq passes away

• Prominent lawyer and former senator Barrister Zahoorul Haq expired here in the wee hours here on July 4, 2023. He was 94.
• His funeral was held here at the University Town which was attended by people in large number including present and former judges of the superior courts, lawyers, government servants and others.
• Prominent among them were former chief justice of Pakistan, Justice (retired) Nasirul Mulk, former chief justices of Peshawar High Court Justice (retired) Mian Fasihul Mulk and Justice (retired) Qaiser Rashid, sitting judges Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Syed Mohammad Attique Shah, former federal minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and law officers

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