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October 04, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News
1. Undocumented `aliens` given 28 days to leave
The government on Tuesday gave an ultimatum to all undocumented immigrants, including Afghan nationals, to leave Pakistan by October 31, or risk imprisonment and deportation to their respective countries.
The decision to expel undocumented foreigners was taken during a meeting of the apex committee of the National Action Plan, chaired by the caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar
2. Ten terrorists killed in Tank operation, says ISPR
Ten alleged terrorists were killed in an intelligence based operation (IBO) in the Pezu area of Tank district on Tuesday, said the military`s media wing.
Security forces received intelligence reports about the movements of terrorists in the border area between Lakki Marwat and Tank districts and conducted a raid on a suspected hideout in the highlands of Azamabad, ISPR and local officials added.
As per the ISPR statement, an intense fire exchange took place between troops and the alleged terrorists, 10 of whom were gunned down
3. Naveed Ashraf named new naval chief
President Arif Alvi has appointed Vice Admiral Naveed Ashraf as the new chief of naval staff.
He was promoted from the rank of vice admiral to admiral before his appointment as the 18th naval chief.
Presently, Vice Admiral Ashraf is serving as the chief of staff at Naval Headquarters
4. Fee slapped on Afghan transit trade
In a significant move to curb the illegal entry of goods into the country, the government announced on Tuesday a 10 per cent processing fee on items imported under the Afghan transit trade agreement.
The decision which aims to deter smuggling and ensure pro-per taxation comes at a time when the government has ordered all illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to leave the country or face expulsion. According to the Customs Department notification (SRO1381 of 2023), the fee, calculated as 10pc ad valorem based on the original value of goods, must be paid in advance during the declaration process for Afghan transit commercial goods entering Afghanistan via Pakistan
5. Kashmir is India`s `modern-day colonial project`, Pakistan tells UN
Pakistan raised the situation in Indian-held Tammu and Kashmir before the UN Decolonisation Committee, characterising India`s unilateral actions in the occupied territory as a modern day colonial project.
The UN body, which is also known as the `fourth committee`, began a general debate on freedom from foreign occupation at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.
Several member states participated in the debate, emphasising the need to resolve the questions of the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, more than six decades after the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
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6. Gandhara authority bill dismissed for `too many loopholes`
A parliamentary committee on Tuesday unanimously dismissed `The Promotion and Protection of Gandhara Culture Authority Bill 2023` due to `too many loopholes` in the proposed legislation.
The members of the Senate Standing Committee on National Heritage and Culture were in consensus that the draft law had already been rejected in a prior committee meeting
7. New BISP chairman
Dr Muhammad Amjad Saqib has been appointed chairman of the Benazir Income Support Programme.
The post was lying vacant since the exit of its previous chairperson Shazia Marri.
He has a vast experience in poverty alleviation, social development, governance, educational reforms and public management
8. Trio wins physics Nobel for illuminating electrons
France`s Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and Franco-Swede Anne L`Huillier won the Nobel prize in physics on Tuesday for research using ultra quick light flashes that enable the study of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
Their technique employs pulses measured in attoseconds, a unit so short that there are as many in one second as there have been seconds since the universe`s birth over 13 billion years ago, the jury said
9. Indian troops won`t be in Maldives anymore, says president-elect
The president elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation.
Muizzu, addressing his first public rally after winning Saturday`s runoff election, stopped short of naming India, the only foreign power with a military deployment in the archipelago.
He won an `India-out` campaign after New Delhi placed a small unit of security personnel to operate four reconnaissance aircraft gifted to the Maldives to patrol its vast maritime territory
10. US House ousts Speaker McCarthy in historic first
The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his job, as infighting among his fellow Republicans plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown.
The 216 to 210 vote marked the first time in history that the House removed its leader, driven by a relatively small group of right-wing Republicans. No clear successor has emerged
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