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September 07, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News
1. Four martyred as army pushes militants back into Afghanistan
At least four security men embraced martyrdom while more than 16 fighters were killed on Wednesday as militants` attempts to enter Pakistan from Afghanistan were foiled by troops deployed along the border with Afghanistan.
In Lower Chitral, militants attacked two security check posts in the southern part of the district in the early hours of Wednesday. The predawn attack targeted check posts in Astui Pass and Jinjiret Koh situated in the south of Lower Chitral, bordering the Afghan province of Nuristan.
Astui Pass is located in the Bumburet Valley, one of the three valleys in southern Chitral where the Kalash community resides
2. Poliovirus found in Karachi and Peshawar sewage
As many as four environmental samples, collected from Karachi and Peshawar, have tested positive for the poliovirus.
According to sources at Pakistan`s National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the lab has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in four environmental (sewage) samples from Karachi and Peshawar.
`As many as three samples were collected from Peshawar, and one sample was collected from District Karachi in the Keamari area,` an official said, requesting not to be named
3. Interior secretary Abdullah Sumbal passes away
Federal Interior Secretary Abdullah Khan Sumbal died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday after suffering from fever for a few days due to food poisoning. He was taken to the CMH Hospital, Lahore, but could not survive. He was 53.
His funeral prayers will be held at Habib Masjid, Tufail Road, Lahore Cantt, after Asr prayers on Thursday. He is survived by his wife and a son
4. Pakistan suggests ways to keep UNSC resolutions alive
Pakistan has suggested setting up a standing committee to ensure the implementation of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, such as those on the Kashmir dispute.
At a debate on the council`s working on Tuesday, Pakistan also warned the UNSC that `one state` (a veiled reference to India) appeared determined to destroy a long-running global process for making the 15-member body more representative
5. KP cabinet increases minimum wage to Rs32,000
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker cabinet on Wednesday approved the monthly minimum wage for unskilled workers in the provincefromRs25,000toRs32,000.
The Rs7,000 wage hike was announced by the government last June while authorising expenditure for July-Oct 202324.
The approval came in the 10th meeting of the caretaker cabinet here with caretaker Chief Minister Azam Khan in the chair, according to an official statement
