{"id":15741,"date":"2018-12-18T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=15741"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:54:44","slug":"todays-current-affair-17-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/todays-current-affair-17-december-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Current Affair 17 December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Turkish interior minister arrives in Islamabad, invites PM Khan to visit Turkey. Premier expresses satisfaction on the &#8220;upward trajectory&#8221; of bilateral relations between Pakistan and Turkey.<\/li><li>OIC strongly condemns &#8216;terrorist act&#8217; by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir. Indian forces enforce a security lockdown for a second straight day to stop anti-India protests.<\/li><li>Indian spy Hamid Nehal Ansari being released, repatriated to India upon completion of sentence: FO. The PHC on Dec 13 had directed the interior ministry to make arrangements for the deportation of the Indian national.<\/li><li>Nawaz Sharif chairs meeting to review PML-N&#8217;s reorganisation drive. &#8220;The process of party&#8217;s organisation across the country is speedily moving forward,&#8221; says Ahsan Iqbal.<\/li><li>Tax filers number has increased to 1.4m, says minister. Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar says government has launched operation against some 3,500 non-filers.<\/li><li>Indian politician gets life over 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Sajjan Kumar has been found guilty of instigating mobs during mass killing of Sikhs triggered by Indira Gandhi&#8217;s murder.<\/li><li>Pakistan welcomes fresh talks with Afghan Taliban: Foreign Office. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says &#8220;another meeting&#8221; to be held today, this time in the UAE.<\/li><li>Saudi Arabia slams US Senate vote as &#8216;interference&#8217;. The largely symbolic vote dealt a fresh warning to President Donald Trump, a staunch supporter of the Saudi regime.<\/li><li>US praises Pakistan for promoting Afghan talks. Acknowledgement comes a day after PM Khan announced Pakistan has arranged talks between US and Taliban officials.<\/li><li>UN calls for \u2018credible\u2019 probe into Khashoggi murder. The UN chief says he had no information on the case except what had been reported in the media.<\/li><li>Trump working on extraditing Gulen, claims Turkey. Turkey has long sought the extradition of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed US exile for nearly two decades.<\/li><li>Macron\u2019s ratings fall further after month of protests. Around 66,000 protesters turned out again on Saturday in the fifth round of anti-government demonstrations.<\/li><li>Georgia\u2019s first female president sworn in. Opposition parties have refused to recognise Zurabishvili\u2019s election.<\/li><li>Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque. Mosul\u2019s Al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret were taken down in 2014.<\/li><li>Qatar to invest $20bn in US energy sector. Qatar Petroleum owns 70pc of the project, with ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips splitting the rest.<\/li><li>Belgium edge out Netherlands 3-2 to lift maiden hockey World Cup title. In sudden death Belgium&#8217;s Florent van Aubel \u2014 shooting first \u2014 scored what turned out to be the winning shot.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish interior minister arrives in Islamabad, invites PM Khan to visit Turkey. Premier expresses satisfaction on the &#8220;upward trajectory&#8221; of bilateral relations between Pakistan and Turkey. OIC strongly condemns &#8216;terrorist act&#8217; by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir. Indian forces enforce a security lockdown for a second straight day to stop anti-India protests. Indian spy Hamid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}