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October 19, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News
1. Pakistan, China commit to broaden CPEC horizons
Pakistan and China on Wednesday agreed to expand the scope of the multibillion-dollar CPEC infrastructure project, which will now diversify to areas like industrial development, ICT, livelihood projects, mining and mineral exploration, and agriculture. Presently, the corridor is confined to road and rail connectivity and economic zones.
Both countries also signed an agreement on the strategic Main Line-1 (ML-1) rail project, the Ministry of Railways said
2. Polio virus found in samples taken from four more cities
Environmental samples collected from four more cities have been found positive for polio virus, a week after samples collected from Hub, Lahore and Peshawar had been found positive.
Sources in Pakistan`s National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH) said the lab has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in four environmental (sewage) samples collected from Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Chaman
3. Pakistan, US extend scientific cooperation agreement
Pakistan and the United States extended on Wednesday their agreement for cooperation in science and technology for another five years.
Pakistan`s US envoy Masood Khan and US State Department`s Director Office of Science and Technology Cooperation Jason Donovan witnessed the ceremony.
Mr Muhammad Saad Ahmed, on behalf of government of Pakistan, and Ms Michelle Sheckells from the US State Department, exchanged the documents
4. Govt given last chance to argue pleas against changes to LG law
Peshawar High Court on Wednesday gave last chance to the provincial government for arguing a set of petitions filed by mayors and chairmen of several tehsil councils, challenging amendments to local government law, especially the provisions related to their powers.
A bench consisting of Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Shakeel Ahmad fixed October 31 for next hearing of the matter, observing that the advocate general should appear for arguing it
5. Cotton production jumps 22pc to almost 6m bales
Cotton output increased by 22 per cent by Oct 15 compared to the total production of the crop the previous year, data by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association showed on Wednesday.
However, cotton production decreased by 16pc during this period in Punjab, while there was a record 84pc increase in Sindh.
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6. Biden backs Israel amid Arab rage over hospital tragedy
While Arab and Muslim nations on Wednesday squarely blamed Israel for the bombing of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza that left over 470 Palestinians dead and demanded Tel Aviv`s accountability for the massacre, US President Joe Biden chose to deliver full backing to Israel by promising more aid to the country at the end of his one-day visit.
President Biden, whose impromptu trip to the Middle East was curtailed by the explosion, supported Tel Aviv`s allegation that a rocket fired by the Islamic Jihad group had caused the hospital tragedy
7. Six killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine
Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine`s Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions killed at least six people on Wednesday morning, Ukrainian officials said.
Five were killed in a missile strike that hit a residential building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the local governor said, and one in a strike on a town just outside the city of Dnipro, Ukraine`s internal affairs minister Igor Klymenko said
8. Sisi rejects displacement of Palestinians into Sinai
Egypt`s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, adding it would set a precedent for `the displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan`.
The border between Egypt`s Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip is the site of the only crossing from the Palestinian territory that is not controlled by Israel. `What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refugee and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted,` Sisi told a joint news conference in Cairo with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
9. Xi rejects `bloc confrontation` as Belt & Road event ends
Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country rejected `economic coercion` and `bloc confrontation` on Wednesday, at the opening ceremony of a forum of international delegates to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which marked the 10th anniversary of the vast infrastructure project.
President Xi in his speech promised Beijing would not engage in `ideological confrontation, geopolitical games or bloc confrontation`, adding: `We oppose unilateral sanctions, economic coercion, decoupling and delinking
10. Clinical NZ rout Afghanistan to keep perfect record
New Zealand brought Afghanistan back down to earth with a 149-run victory on Wednesday to stretch their winning streak in the ICC World Cup.
Three days after stunning defending champions England, the plucky Afghans briefly kindled hopes of another upset when New Zealand`s top order suffered a mini-collapse.
The 2019 runners-up, however, went on to post 288-6 after skipper Tom Latham (68) and Glenn Phillips (71) smashed rapid half-centuries
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