Today’s Important Current Affairs 16th August 2018

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• Imran, Shahbaz file nomination papers for PM’s slot
• Ch Nisar included MI, ISI men in JIT against Sharifs: CJP
• NAB closes Kiki video case against PIA
• Punjab Assembly members take oath
• Pakistan’s debt, liabilities touch Rs29.861 trillion
• PTI MPA submits motion for south Punjab soon after oath-taking
• Gen Bajwa sanctions death sentences for 15 ‘hardcore terrorists’. The condemned militants have been found guilty of terrorism offences, including attacks on civilians and armed forces.
• Former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee passes away at 93. Indian president, prime minister tweet condolences; FO remembers the deceased as a “renowned statesman”.

PTI MPA dies of cardiac arrest
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf MPA-elect from PP-222, Malik Ghulam Abbas Khakhi died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday night.

Pakistan born Mehreen becomes Australia’s first female Muslim senator
Pakistan born Mehreen Faruqi became Australia’s first Muslim woman senator after being appointed to fill a vacant seat on Wednesday.
The Greens Party MP for New South Wales will be sworn into office next week. Her family had migrated to Australia in 1992. Before entering politics she had a distinguished career as an academic and has a doctorate in environmental engineering.

1,000 children abused in Pennsylvania by priests: jury
Internal documents from six Catholic dioceses show over 1,000 children abused by some 300 “predator priests”.