World Current Affairs

Option: B
Explanation :According to an official, the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) has blacklisted 12 foreign recruiters since January for not providing promised jobs and agreed salaries to the emigrants. They were also allegedly issuing bogus visas to the Pakistani workers. After the ban, the firms will no longer be allowed to hire anyone from Pakistan.
The official said that six of the blacklisted agencies belonged to Azerbaijan and three each were from Iraq and Oman.
Here is the complete list of blacklisted agencies: 1. Shah International F/S LLC 2. Nazar Motors LLC 3. Lardak LLC 4.ACV LLC 5. Arkuita LLC 6. Citizen Munawwar Latifi 7. Shirka Ardh Al-Muheet 8. Shirka Amwaj Ul-Bahar 9. Shirka Seeufue Ul-Badar 10. Catalyst Contract Trading Company 11. Fourth Union Reconstruction LLC 12. Dar Ul Riyan International LLC

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Option: D
Explanation : A year after the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) became part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the first-ever police station has been established in Wana.
Wana is the largest district of the South Waziristan Agency and was previously controlled by the Frontier Corps.
The region has now been officially handed over to the police which officially took charge on Saturday(15-06-2019).
“The Frontier Corps has handed over the Wana fort to the police department to set up a police station,” the state-run radio reported.

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Option: B
Explanation :A consortium of 40 tech companies Set New Benchmarks for AI is MLPerf Inference v0.5. June-2019 A consortium of 40 tech companies, including Facebook and Google, has released a set of universal benchmarks for evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence tools, aiming to help businesses navigate the fast-growing field.
These benchmarks, named MLPerf Inference v0.5, are centered around three common machine learning tasks: image recognition, object detection, and voice translation.

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Option: D
Explanation :Country Ranks at the Bottom in Gender Disparity for Unpaid Work in 2019 is Pakistan. Pakistani women suffer the most in terms of unpaid care and work, a recent United Nations report has revealed.
According to the report – ‘Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020’ – the gender disparity in Pakistan is also on its peak when it comes to unpaid work. The data published in the report revealed that every Pakistani woman spends 11 hours on unpaid domestic care and work in contrast to just one hour for men.
The ratio is higher than in any country in the world. Even the countries in West Asia and North Africa had a better median figure than Pakistan.
The disparity appeared to be narrowest in European countries and Belgium was on the top of the list. On average, Belgian women spend only 30 minutes more on unpaid work against every hour of spent by men there.

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Option: B
Explanation :if Huawei abandons Android Google will lose 700-800 million users. On 26-06-2019 In an interview with CNBC, Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei claimed that Google will lose 700-800 million users if Huawei abandons Android. He said that Huawei and Google will always be on the same line of interest, and if we don’t load Google’s system, Google will lose 700-800 million users in the future.
He added that the company does not want to replace Google’s system at all because it will slow down the growth but if they get to that point, Huawei has its own system to replace and will return to growth. HongMeng OS or Oak OS is all set to release by the end of September or October and will initially focus on the mid-range devices, as per the reports.

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Option: C
Explanation : Pakistan’s top-order batsman Babar Azam has become the 2nd fastest player to reach the milestone of 3,000 runs against New Zealand on Wednesday-25-06-2019.
The 24-year-old has remained a vital figure in Pakistan’s batting lineup and has surpassed likes of Sir Viv Richard, Joe Root and Shikar Dhawan to reach the milestone.

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Option: A
Explanation : June 13, 2019 The World Bank approved a package of $518 million for two projects in support of Pakistan’s ambitious efforts to raise revenue and reduce compliance cost with a goal of providing better services to the people.
$400 million will go to ‘Pakistan Raises Revenue Project’, which is meant to support the FBR effort to increase its tax revenue. The remaining $118 million will go to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Mobilization and Public Resource Management Project, which will support the provincial government to increase its capacity to collect revenue and strengthen its Public Financial Management system, the WB said.
The International Development Association (IDA), the concessional financing arm of the World Bank, is financing both projects. The $400 million part of the loan needs to be paid back in 30 years with a grace period of five years.

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Option: D
Explanation : June 13, 2019 – The World Bank approved a package of $518 million for two projects in support of Pakistan’s ambitious efforts to raise revenue and reduce compliance cost with a goal of providing better services to the people.
$400 million will go to ‘Pakistan Raises Revenue Project’, which is meant to support the FBR effort to increase its tax revenue. The remaining $118 million will go to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Mobilization and Public Resource Management Project, which will support the provincial government to increase its capacity to collect revenue and strengthen its Public Financial Management system, the WB said.
The International Development Association (IDA), the concessional financing arm of the World Bank, is financing both projects. The $400 million part of the loan needs to be paid back in 30 years with a grace period of five years.

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Option: C
Explanation :Pakistan army team has been the winner for consecutive second year. Last year, Pakistan army participated for the first time in the event,” said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
On 13-06-2019 Pakistan Army won an international military drill competition 2019 known as Pace Sticking Competition held today at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst UK. A team from the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul represented the Pakistan Army in the contest, participated by military teams from Canada, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman. The country’s team performed well and bagged the honor despite rain and bad weather.

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Option: A
Explanation :On 13-06-2019 Pakistan Army won an international military drill competition 2019 known as Pace Sticking Competition held today at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst UK. A team from the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul represented the Pakistan Army in the contest, participated by military teams from Canada, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman. The country’s team performed well and bagged the honor despite rain and bad weather.
“Pakistan army team has been the winner for consecutive second year. Last year, Pakistan army participated for the first time in the event,” said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

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