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July 20, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

1. After 18-year delay, GB LG polls likely this year

• The GilgitBaltistan cabinet at its first meeting on Wednesday decided to hold the local bodies elections in the region, bringing an end to a legal battle over the issue.
• Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan, who was in the chair, issued instructions to GB Chief Election Commissioner Raja Shahbaz Khan to make arrangements for the long-delayed vote.
• The cabinet meeting, held at the CM Office in Gilgit, was also attended by Chief Secretary Mohyuddin Ahmed Wani and Inspector General of Police Afzal Mahmood Butt, according to a press release

2. Pakistan`s N-security ranking upgraded

• The Nuclear Security Index 2023, which ranks the security of nuclear materials worldwide, has upgraded Pakistan`s status.
• According to the report, the majority of improvements were in the security of materials and controls.
• The forum ranked Pakistan above India, Iran and North Korea in terms of its handling of hazardous material, showing that the country had gained more points since the last assessment and was number 19 on the list of 22 states.In security of facilities, Pakistan is ranked 32; tied with Russia and Israel, and above India, Iran, Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, North Korea and a few others.
• Pakistan`s score is 61 as it gained four points, whereas India could only score 52 points

3. Pakistani passport ranked fourth worst in world

• For the third consecutive year, the Pakistani passport has been ranked the `fourth worst` by this year`s Henley Passport Index, a ranking of the world`s 199 passports according to the number of destinations their owners can access without a prior visa.
• In the latest ranking, Pakistan`s travel document is only ranked higher than those of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Pakistan`s passport permits visa-free access to 33 states, Syria`s gives access to 30 destinations, Iraq`s allows travel to 29 and Afghanistan`s travel document only affords the bearer access to 29 destinations. The top spot belongs to Singapore, as its passport provides citizens visa-free access to 192 destinations

4. 25,000 Afghans returned home in three months: IOM

• A total of 24,822 undocumented Afghan nationals `spontaneously` returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan between April and June 2023, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a report.
• Key findings of the organisation`s Quarterly Flow Monitoring of Undocumented Afghan Returnees from Pakistan, released on Wednesday, showed that 11,397 Afghan nationals returned through the Torkham border point and 13,425 through the West Chaman border

5. Ukrainian FM due today

• Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba will arrive here on a two-day official visit to Pakistan on July 20 (today).
• According to the Foreign Office, the Ukrainian minister will hold meetings with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
• The FO said in a statement that Pakistan and Ukraine enjoyed close and cordial relations, particularly in the fields of trade, investment, agriculture and higher education

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6. KP governor approves summary to remove ANP caretaker minister

• Khyber Paktunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali has approved a summary for removal of the caretaker minister for industry, commerce and revenue, Adnan Jalil, from the cabinet.
• Governor`s House confirmed that the summary for removal of the caretaker minister, affiliated with Awami National Party, was approved.
• However, the notification of his removal from the caretaker cabinet was not yet issued. Jalil, however, is unaware of the rea-sons for his removal

July 20, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

7. Putin says Russia will return to grain deal if demands met

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 19, 2023 that Moscow would `consider` returning to the Ukraine grain deal if its demands were `fully` met, saying the agreement had `lost all meaning.
• It was the first time the Russian leader commented since Moscow this week exited the landmark deal, which allowed the safe passage of cargo ships from Black Sea ports.
• `The continuation of the grain deal in its current form has lost all meaning,` Putin said at a government meeting

8. Three Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strikes

• Israeli air strikes on July 19 near Syria`s capital Damascus killed three fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad`s regime and wounded four others, a war monitor said.
• Syrian state news agency SANA earlier reported two soldiers had been wounded in the strikes overnight Tuesday-Wednesday. It quoted a military source as saying the bombing targeted `certain positions in the vicinity of Damascus`.
• The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets included warehouses used by Lebanon`s Iranbacked Hezbollah group

9. Putin to skip BRICS summit in S. Africa after arrest threat

• Vladimir Putin, who is under an international arrest warrant, will not attend a BRICS nations summit in South Africa next month, the country`s presidency said on Wednesday, ending months of speculation over whether the Russian President would show up.
• Putin`s potential visit has been a thorny diplomatic issue for Pretoria.
• The Russian leader is the target of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant a provision that South Africa as an ICC member would be expected to implement were he to set foot in the country

10. US needs `Kissinger-style wisdom` in its China policies, says Wang

• The United States needs `Kissinger-style diplomatic wisdom` in its China policies, top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the former US state secretary in Beijing on Wednesday, as both countries struggle to repair relations.
• Henry Kissinger served as US state secretary and national security advisor in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and played a key diplomatic role in normalising ties between Washington and Beijing in the1970s

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