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March 05, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Talks begin tomorrow to hammer out IMF deal

• The government will resume virtual talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on March 4, 2023 to finalise revenue and expenditure figures for the next four months, a senior government official told Dawn on Saturday.
• The IMF team, led by its Pakistan mission chief Nathan Porter, held talks with finance ministry officials for a couple of days, followed by a last meeting with tax officials on Friday to review the impact of prior actions in terms of revenue generation and their impact on bridging fiscal gaps.
• The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been tasked with collecting an additional Rs170bn in revenue to fill the gap, while the remaining amount will be abridged through other measures, such as removing subsidies and increasing gas and electricity prices

2. US, Pakistan anti-terrorism talks begin tomorrow

• A US delegation will arrive in Islamabad on Sunday (March 5, 2023) for counterterrorism talks, days after an official US report warned that terrorist groups were once again regrouping in the Pakistan Afghanistan region.
• `Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Christopher Landberg will lead an interagency delegation to Pakistan [from] March 6-7 to participate in the Pakistan-US Counterterrorism Dialogue,` the US State Department announced.
• `The United States and Pakistan will discuss the shared terrorist threats facing our two countries and develop policy-oriented strategies regarding cooperation in critical areas such as border security and countering the financing of terrorism,` the statement added

3. Pakistan-India pact missed bus, but draft is ready

• An India-Pakistan peace pact was ready to be signed by past leaders before they lost power, but it remains alive after the Modi government vetted it, according to a book quoted in a review by Karan Thapar on March 4, 2023.
• `By the end of the second term of the UPA government and of Dr Manmohan Singh`s tenyear term, the draft agreement had been approved and was ready for signature,` former ambassador to Pakistan Satinder Lambah says in his book Pursuit of Peace, quoted in The Hindustan Times. It has been published posthumously as the diplomat died in June last year.
• `There were 36 meetings of the backchannel from May 2003 to March 2014,` a period spanning two leaders from each side. Gen Pervez Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif supported the backchannel from Pakistan, while Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh pressed on with it for India. Most of the agreement was concluded during Gen Musharraf`s time, the book says. Nothing much happened after he lost power, but then prime minister Nawaz Sharif `injected new momentum and urgency into the process`. Unfortunately, by then, `attention in India turned to the 2014 general elections`

4. Haj quota cut for locals, doubled for overseas pilgrims

• As it grapples with the US dollar shortage, the government decided in principle to increase the special Haj quota for overseas Pakistani nationals from 25 per cent to 50pc, as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar vowed that Haj operations of 2023 will not be affected by low forex reserves in the country.
• Though Mr Dar claimed that the pilgrimage will not be impacted despite the economic meltdown, there has been a 25pc reduction in Haj quota for citizens living in the country.
• The formal decisions to this effect was taken in a meeting of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar with Religious Affair Minister Abdul Shakoor.
• As per decisions, the overseas Pakistani will avail the 50pc quota in the government Haj scheme 2023 by doing payment in US dollars, in a bid to minimise out flows of dollars and minimise pressure on the already dwindling forex reserves of the country

5. GB govt demands increase in CSS quota

• The government of Gilgit-Baltistan, through a letter proposed the federal government to increase Central Superior Services (CSS) quota seats for candidates from GB.
• In 2020, CSS quota of GB has been reduced to 1 percent from the combined GB-Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) quota of 4pc.
• GB Chief Secretary Mohyuddin Ahmed Wani sent a letter in this regard to Zahoor Ahmed, the secretary (Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Islamabad). A copy of the letter was also sent to Dr Syed Taugir Shah, secretary to the prime minister of Pakistan, PM Secretariat Islamabad.
• The letter said that GB has a comparatively small public sector in which job opportunities are very few and far between

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6. UN chief censures `predatory` lending by rich states

• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on March 4, 2023 slammed the world`s rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with `predatory` interest rates and crippling fuel prices.
• Speaking in the Qatari capital, Doha, Guterres told leaders of more than 40 of the most deprived states that wealthy nations should provide $500 billion a year to help others `trapped in vicious cycles` that block efforts to boost economies and vital services.
• The summit of Least Developed Countries (LDC) is normally held every 10 years but has twice been delayed since 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Afghanistan and Myanmar, two of the poorest countries, are not present at the Doha meeting of 46 LDC members because their governments are not recognised by UN members

7. `Extremely tense` situation as Russian and Ukrainian forces fight in Bakhmut streets

• Russia`s defence minister has inspected the front line in eastern Ukraine, the defence ministry said on March 4, 2023, with the battle for Bakhmut raging and the US offering to pump more money into Kyiv`s survival.
• Sergei Shoigu had `inspected a command post on the front` in the direction of the southern Donetsk region, the defence ministry said, without specifying exactly where or when. It put out a video of Shoigu travelling in a helicopter and talking to a soldier in front of damaged buildings.
• Ukrainian troops have held out for months in Bakhmut, fighting brutal trench warfare and artillery battles that have flattened large portions of the city, and President Volodymyr Zelensky this week said the fighting was `only increasing`

8. Iran to reconnect nuclear surveillance cameras, says UN nuclear watchdog

• Iran has agreed to reconnect surveillance cameras at several nuclear sites and increase the pace of inspections, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on March 4, 2023.
• UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi earlier said he had held `constructive` talks with Iranian officials in Tehran after the discovery of uranium particles enriched to near weapons-grade level.
• On his return to Vienna, Grossi recalled there had been `a reduction in monitoring activities related to cameras and monitoring systems` and said that `we have agreed that those will be operating again` `This is very, very important` in terms of continuity of knowledge, `in particular in the context of the possibility of the revival of JCPOA`, he said

9. China`s economy, govt revamp in focus as parliament opens today

• China opens its annual parliamentary session on March 4, 2023, with the National People`s Congress (NPC) set to implement the biggest government shakeup in a decade as Beijing confronts a host of challenges and looks to revive its Covid-battered economy.
• Premier Li Keqiang will open the session at 9am (6am Pakistan time), reading out a government work report that is expected to include an economic growth target that could range as high as 6pc in a bid to boost confidence and build on a promising post pandemic recovery, sources involved in policy discussions said.

10. BBC raids show India`s shrinking media freedom under Modi

• At around 11am on Feb 14, some 20 Indian tax officials and police burst into the BBC`s offices in New Delhi, shouting at staff to step away from their computers and hand over their mobile phones, according to two people present.
• At the company`s bureau in India`s financial capital, Mumbai, tax officials launched a second raid.
• The government said the BBC had failed to respond to repeated requests to clarify its tax affairs related to the profits and remittances from its Indian operations

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