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January 10, 2018 (Day by Day Current Affairs)

Uncertainty grips Balochistan as Zehri bows out
- Political uncertainty loomed over Balochistan after Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri chose to resign from office instead of contesting a no-trust motion on January 09, 2018.
- Mr Zehri`s resignation came before the muchhyped session of the Balochistan Assembly in which the joint opposition were set to table the no-trust motion against the CM
- With the acceptance of his resignation by Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai, the provincial cabinet stood dissolved and all advisers and special assistants removed from office
Government appointed first revenue minister
- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan has been elevated to the status of federal minister for revenue on January 09, 2017
- This is the first time in the country`s history that a federal minister for revenue has been appointed
Bashir Virk appointed federal law minister
- MNA Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir Virk was appointed federal law minister by the government on January 09, 2017
- President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of office of federal minister at a special ceremony in the Presidency
- Hailing from Gujranwala, Mr Virk is a seasoned politician of the ruling party PMLN
- The slot of law minister fell vacant after Zahid Hamid resigned last November
FIA`s Sindh launches cybercrime complaint portal
- The Sindh chapter of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on January 09, 2017 launched its web portal for registration of complaints related to cybercrime, becoming the first province to take the initiative with a promise to protect user identity
- `In 2017, 76% of the total complaints relating to social media were registered by our cybercrime wing,` he said, adding that 150 million people in the country were using mobile phones of which 50m were broadband subscribers
Chaudhry Sultan Haider Ali wins Chakwal by-election
- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz won Chakwal`s by-election by a heavy margin on January 09, 2017
- According to unofficial results of all 227 polling stations, PMLN`s candidate Chaudhry Sultan Haider Ali got more than 75,000 votes against PTIs Raja Tariq Mehmood Afzal`s 45,500
CJ suggests uniform education system across country
- The growing disparity and discrimination in the education system caught the attention of the Supreme Court when Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar questioned on January 09, 2017 why the concept of `one textbook, one school bag and one uniform` in our educational institutions cannot be launched
- `If we cannot enforce Article 25A of the Constitution in its true spirit then it`s a mere showpiece in the green book, regretted the chief justice while holding the Constitution in his lef t hand
- Article 25A of the Constitution obligates the state to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to 16 years
British PM`s cabinet reshuffle marred by resignation
- British Prime Minister Theresa May`s longawaited government reshuffle was branded ineffectual and shambolic after she promoted few fresh faces to her top team and a minister resigned rather than accept a new post
- Most of senior ministers also kept their jobs in the reshufne, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit minister David Davis and finance minister Philip Hammond
- May hoped the shakeup would help her reassert authority ahead of crunch Brexit negotiations this year, and following a torrid 2017 in which she lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election last summer
Israeli air strikes hit Syria; govt bombardment kills 24
- The Israeli army carried out air strikes and fired rockets at targets in Syria, causing damage near a military position
- Israel`s military has carried out several attacks on the Syrian army and its ally Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011
- Syrian air defences intercepted one rocket, but several more hit `near a military position, causing material damage`, it added.
North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South
- North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South, the rivals said on January 09, 2018 after their first formal talks in more than two years following high tensions over Pyongyang`s nuclear weapons programme
- The two sides also decided to hold military talks and to restore a military hotline closed since February 2016
- Seoul and Olympic organisers have been keen for Pyongyang which boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in the South Korean capital to take part in what they repeatedly proclaimed a `peace Olympics` in Pyeongchang next month
Swiss never verified $200b ‘stashed in Pakistanis accounts’
- The government on January 9, 2018 backtracked from its statement that Pakistani nationals had over $200 billion stashed in Swiss banks, by saying that the figure has not been verified by the Switzerland authorities
- Former finance minister Ishaq Dar informed the National Assembly in 2014 that at least $200 billion of “Pakistani money” was stashed away in Swiss banks
- However, Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs Rana Afzal Khan on January 09, 2018 informed Senate Standing Committee on Finance that the Swiss authorities had never verified that Pakistani nationals had over $200 billion stashed in their banks