Category: Pakistan Current Affairs April 2022

Correct Answer: D. April 30, 2022

Murree Tourism Police was on April 30, 2022, launched to facilitate and protect tourists in the resort station on the instructions of the inspector general of police (IGP), Punjab. Regional Police Officer (RPO) Rawalpindi Ashfaq Ahmad Khan and City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Omar Saeed Malik inaugurated the tourism police at Lower Topa. The tourism police initially included 150 officers and personnel, a special tourist van, three specially prepared vehicles, 25 motorcycles, and a horse riding squad. Police officials said the tourism police was launched after the Murree tragedy of January 8, 2022.

Correct Answer: D. 86

At least 86 cases of attacks and violations against media and its practitioners, including journalists, took place in Pakistan over the course of one year between May 2021 and April 2022. While the overall number of documented violations in the preceding year has gone down several notches, there is a continuing trend of targeting journalists working for digital media, according to the research and analysis report by Freedom Network, an award-winning Pakistan-based media rights watchdog that tracks violations against journalists and attacks on freedom of expression on an ongoing basis.

Correct Answer: C. 23rd 

Correct Answer: B. April 27, 2022 

Shahzada Mohiuddin retired from active political life after completing his term in 2013. He had dominated politics in the district for well over a quarter of a century. His son Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin contested the general elections in 2013 and won the National Assembly seat in Chitral. Shahzada Mohiuddin died on April 27, 2022, at the age of 83.

Correct Answer: B. April 28, 2022

The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) on April 28, 2022, asked the government to eliminate Riba (interest) from Pakistan by Dec 31, 2027, after declaring its prohibition in all forms and manifestations to be Islamic and in accordance with the holy Quran and Sunnah. The court specified Dec 31, 2027, as the date for the decision to take effect by way of the complete elimination of Riba, adding the five years till then are reason enough to convert Pakistan`s economy into one that is equitable, asset-based, risk-sharing, and interest-free. Announced by a three-judge bench comprising FSC Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai, Justice Dr. Syed Muhammad Anwer, and Justice Khadim Hussain M Shaikh.

Correct Answer: A. President Arif Alvi

President Dr. Arif Alvi on 27 April 2022 administered the oath of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as the federal minister for foreign affairs. The PPP chief took oath following the approval of the party’s top decision-making body a day earlier. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif witnessed the oath-taking ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.

Correct Answer: A. Baloch Liberation Army

A burqa-clad Baloch woman suicide bomber struck a van inside Pakistan’s prestigious University of Karachi, killing three Chinese nationals and their local driver, in the latest targeted attack against Chinese citizens in the country’s financial capital. The banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) linked Majeed Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack on the teachers that took place near China-built Confucius Institute – a non-profit institute teaching Chinese language to local pupils – in the university. It said the attack was carried out by a woman suicide bomber.

Correct Answer: B. Three

The death of three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver on Tuesday 26 April at the hands of a woman suicide bomber at the entrance to the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi in Pakistan has raised concerns that China-Pakistan academic collaboration is becoming a target for separatist resistance. The tutors who were killed have been identified as Huang Guiping, the founding director of the Confucius Institute (who was also the deputy director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office of Sichuan Normal University), Ding Mufang, and Chen Sai. Another Chinese teacher, Wang Yuqing, was injured along with three local residents who were taken to a hospital in Karachi.

Correct Answer: C. 26 April 2022

In a brazen attack on campus, a female suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying faculty members of Karachi University`s Confucius Institute, killing three Chinese nationals and their local driver on April 26, 2022 afternoon.

Correct Answer: C. Shari Baloch

The bomber was identified as Shari Baloch, a 30-year old female and secondary school science teacher from Kech District in Balochistan. She held bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from the Allama Iqbal Open University and had also obtained a master’s degree in zoology from the University of Balochistan. She had reportedly enrolled in another postgraduate degree at the University of Karachi months before the attack but was not reported to be a student there at the time. In 2019, Shari Baloch landed a job in the Balochistan Education Department and was employed at a government secondary school in Kalatak, near Turbat, where she taught science to female students.