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Option: D
Explanation :World Tourism Day is celebrated every year by the United Nations World Tourism Organization since 1980 on 27 September. This date was chosen to be so because, on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted.
Travelling has become a major source of revenue for several countries across the globe in the last several decades. The advent of social media has also paved a way for the exhibitionism of our lives.
The aim of the day is to raise awareness about the role of tourism and to focus on the fact that travelling has a major social, cultural, political and economic effect on all of our lives.
“That is why, in 2019, in line with United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s overarching focus on skills, education and jobs throughout the year, World Tourism Day will be a celebration on the topic ‘Tourism and Jobs: a better future for all,’ it added.

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Option: B
Explanation :Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that Pakistan, Turkey, and Malaysia will jointly start an English language channel dedicated to confronting Islamophobia. This was announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan in a tweet 26-sep-2019. The decision was announced after a trilateral meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad on the sidelines of the 74th UNGA session being held in New York.
Under the joint venture, series and films would be produced so that the Muslims and the world can be educated on Islamic history, he said. The channel aims to set the record straight about Islam. PM Khan called for effective measures to counter hate speech and Islamophobia, stressing upon the importance of addressing both the causes and consequences of these phenomena

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Option: B
Explanation :The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 was the most-watched ICC event ever, with a global cumulative average audience of 1.6 billion for live coverage, a 38% increase over the 2015 edition and a unique broadcast audience of 706 million viewers, demonstrating the phenomenal reach and power of live cricket around the world.
There were more fans watching the 2019 edition compared to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Pakistan with a 37% increase, Bangladesh saw 35% more fans watching and in Sri Lanka the figures were up 11% on 2015, reaching a unique audience of over 100 million.
The most-watched match in India was India against Pakistan which had a unique TV audience of 233 million from the 273 million unique viewers that had tuned in globally. The tournament reach within India was 545 million across TV and digital platforms.
A unique audience of 15.4 million witnessed the most exciting final in Cricket World Cup history via Sky Sports, Sky, Channel 4 and More 4, peaking with 8.92m unique viewers at 19:29 at the start of the historic Super Over. This is the highest ever peak for a cricket match on record for UK television audiences. The Final also received the highest viewing hours for a live cricket match on UK record with 36.6 million.

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Option: A
Explanation :Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands at the top of the most influential Muslims list, followed by Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein stands at third, while Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei is at fourth. King of Morocco His Majesty Amir al-Mu’minin is at fifth.
Among the top 50, ranked at 29 is PM Imran, whose crackdown on corruption and bringing “accountability” to the forefront has fast made him a global name.

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Option: C
Explanation :Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ranked at 29th place in the list of World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.
The premier has jumped from 450th in 2018 to 29th in 2019 for his humanitarian contributions, political struggles, efforts to curb corruption and money-laundering and achievements in the field of sports.
Sheikh Taqi Usmani is the highest-ranked Pakistani in the list. The Deobandi figurehead is listed as the 6th most prominent Muslim in the world.
Prominent religious scholar and preacher, Maulana Tariq Jameel, and Nobel Peace laureate, Malala Yousafzai have also been named among the most influential Muslims across the globe.

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Option: B
Explanation :Last there states to join NATO are Albania(2009),Croatia(2009) and Montenegro(2017). As of 2019, NATO officially recognizes four aspiring members: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia and Ukraine. North Macedonia signed an accession protocol to become a NATO member state in February 2019, which is undergoing ratification by the member states.
So Macedonia is undergoing ratification while Albania,Croatia joined NATO in 2009.

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Option: D
Explanation :As of 2019, NATO officially recognizes four aspiring members: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia and Ukraine. North Macedonia signed an accession protocol to become a NATO member state in February 2019, which is undergoing ratification by the member states. Future expansion is currently a topic of debate in several countries outside the alliance, and countries like Sweden, Finland, and Serbia have open political debate on the topic of membership, while in countries like Ukraine, support and opposition to membership is tied to ethnic and nationalist ideologies. The incorporation of countries formerly part of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union has been a cause of increased tension between NATO countries and Russia.

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Option: A
Explanation :The Federal Minister for Privatization, Muhammad Mian Soomro says that the commission has initiated a program to privatize 17 public sector entities and sell 32 real estate properties of state-owned entities (SOEs).
The privatization process is in line with the directions of Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCOP) chaired by Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Hafeez Shaikh. The government intends to generate revenue through privatization of state-owned entities (SOEs) to meet the large debt servicing obligations of the country, he added.

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Option: B
Explanation :The Supreme Court of Pakistan has struck down demands of increasing the school fee against the order of the apex court. Following the ruling, any illegal hike in fees would be considered null and void. Private school fees will now be reverted to January 2017’s rates.
A three-judge bench while hearing petitions regarding exuberant fee increase by private schools passed this judgment on Friday. The bench comprised of Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Faisal Arab.
In a 65-page verdict, the top court said that private schools had “excessively increased fee since 2017 in violation of the law” and that the additional amount should be “struck down.”

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Option: C
Explanation :The resolution says that in this competitive world, the students have so much pressure to deal with that it often ends up overwhelming them. The resolution demands that the province’s schools charging Rs. 5000 or more in fees should appoint a permanent psychologist for students; whereas, schools charging less should at least arrange a weekly session.
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Ayesha Bano presented the resolution which was passed with majority approval on 05-09-2019.

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