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July 13, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

1. Premier promises timely elections, sans exact date

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif`s categorical statement that he would leave the government on completion of the five-year term of the National Assembly in August has made clear, to some extent, the intentions of the rulers regarding elections in the country this year, but there is still a question mark on the timing of the polls.
• Speaking at the launching ceremony of the Pakistan Endowment Fund for Education on Wednesday, the prime minister declared that the term of his government would end next month.
• He, however, did not clear the confusion about whether the coalition partners would go for the normal dissolution of the National Assembly on completion of its term on August 12, or he would advise the president for an early dissolution

2. IMF board green-lights long-awaited $3bn loan

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on July 12, 2023 that its executive board had approved a $3 billion loan agreement for Pakistan, unlocking crucial fundingfor the troubled economy.
• In a statement, the IMF said its executive board green-lit the nine-month standby arrangement (SBA) in order `to support the authorities` economic stabilisation programme`.
• This follows a staff-level agreement between the Fund and Pakistan announced last month, and the latest approval allows an immediate disbursement of around $1.2bn

3. 12 soldiers martyred in Zhob, Sui attacks

• As many as 12 soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom in separate military operations in the Zhob and Sui areas of Balochistan, while seven `heavily armed` militants who reportedly attacked the security forces were also killed, the military`s media wing said in multiple statements on Wednesday.
• This was the military`s highest single-day death toll from terrorist attacks reported this year. Before this, 10 personnel were martyred in a `fire raid` in Balochistan`s Kech district in February 2022

4. After Saudi inflow, UAE deposits $1bn with SBP

• Pakistan received a much-needed inflow of $1 billion from the United Arab Emirates on July 12, 2023, hours before the formal approval of the $3 billion nine-month Stand-By Arrangement by the executive board of the International Monetary Fund.
• The UAE, our brotherly country and friend has deposited $1bn into the State Bank of Pakistan`s account,` Finance Minister Ishq Dar announced in a video message saying that the funds would boost the country`s declining foreign exchange reserves.
• `The Federal Reserve Bank has confirmed that this significant amount has been credited to the account of the SBP,` Mr Dar further said

5. Multi-pronged approach needed to better waste-picking children`s lives: ILO

• The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that Pakistan requires a multipronged approach to improve lives of children involved in waste-picking and to end the worst form of child labour.
• The Rapid Assessment of Child Labour in Waste-Picking in Pakistan, carried out by the ILO and published on Wednesday, recommended that all stakeholders must be involved from government decision-makers and law enforcement, to civil society, the private sector and development partners to ensure that policies and practices are sustainable

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July 14, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

6. Jazeera Airways first flight arrives from Kuwait

• Jazeera Airways` first flight arrived at Islamabad International Airport from Kuwait on July 12, 2023, commencing a new chapter in the airline`s operations.
• A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said the Kuwaiti airline`s flight J9-511 had 163 passengers onboard when it landed at IIAP around 4.30am.
• Jazeera Airways will operate two weekly flights one on Wednesday and the other on Saturday

7. Hunger has stopped rising, but remains elevated: UN

• World hunger stopped rising in 2022 after growing for seven years but remains above prepandemic levels and far off track to be eradicated by 2030, UN agencies said on July 12, 2023.
• Between 691 million and 783m people faced hunger last year, with a midrange of 735m, the five agencies said in a report.
• The proportion of people facing chronic hunger rose from 7.9 per cent of the world population in 2019 before the pandemic to 9.2pc in 2022

8. North Korea fires ballistic missile

• North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) off its east coast on July 12, 2023, prompting condemnations from leaders of South Korea and Japan who met on the sidelines of a NATO summit.
• The launch came after heated complaints from North Korea in recent days, accusing American spy planes of violating airspace in its economic zones, condemning a recent visit to South Korea by an American nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, and promising to take steps in reaction

9. West offers security assurances to frustrated Ukraine

• The United States and global allies unveiled new security assurances for Ukraine at a Nato summit on July 12, 2023, designed to bolster the country`s defences against Russia over the long haul while Kyiv strives for membership in the alliance.
• Members of the world`s most powerful military bloc offered the prospect of long term protection a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decried as `absurd` a refusal to offer an invitation or timetable for Ukraine`s entry into Nato

10. UN rights council condemns desecration of Holy Quran

• Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being who lived nearly five decades in Paris after emigrating in disillusionment from his Communist-ruled homeland, died on Tuesday. He was 94.
• The Moravian Library in the Czech city of Brno, which houses Kundera`s personal collection, said he died in his Paris apartment after a long illness.
• Kundera won global accolades for the way he depicted themes and characters that floated between the mundane reality of everyday life and the lofty world of ideas

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