{"id":64,"date":"2018-08-18T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","slug":"todays-important-current-affairs-18th-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/todays-important-current-affairs-18th-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Important Current Affairs 18th August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>One Liner<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Arif Alvi nominated by PTI for president&#8217;s post<\/li>\n<li>Former UN chief Kofi Annan passes away at 80. UN chief Antonio Guterres offers condolences, calls Annan a &#8220;guiding force for good&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Zardari secures protective bail in fake accounts case. Islamabad High Court orders Zardari to submit Rs500,000 in surety bonds.<\/li>\n<li>FO rejects accusation Pakistan provided medical support to militants involved in Ghazni attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Imran Khan takes oath as Pakistan PM<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on 18th August, 2018 took oath as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>The oath-taking ceremony was administered by Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain.<\/li>\n<li>In the July 25, 2018 general elections, the PTI had emerged as the single largest party with 116 seats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Murad Ali Shah takes oath as 33rd chief minister of Sindh<\/strong><br \/>\nShah was administered the oath by acting Governor Agha Siraj Durrani in a ceremony held at the Governor House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balochistan Assembly: Jam Kamal voted in as 16th chief minister<\/strong><br \/>\nJam Mir Kamal Khan Alyani secures 39 votes, beating Mir Younus Aziz Zehri who polled 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Ibrahim re-elected as president of Mali<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected as President of Mali\u00a0after beating opposition candidate.<\/li>\n<li>Keita will serve his second five-year term as Malian leader.<\/li>\n<li>Keita will take office on September 4, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Mali is a landlocked nation home to at least 20 ethnic groups where the majority of people live on less than $2 a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>U.S. imposes sanctions on Myanmar military<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States imposed sanctions on four Myanmar military and police commanders and two army units.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctions were imposed\u00a0for their involvement in human rights abuses against the country\u2019s Rohingya Muslims.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctions marked the toughest US action so far in response to Myanmar\u2019s crackdown on the Rohingya minority which started in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Liner Dr Arif Alvi nominated by PTI for president&#8217;s post Former UN chief Kofi Annan passes away at 80. UN chief Antonio Guterres offers condolences, calls Annan a &#8220;guiding force for good&#8221;. Zardari secures protective bail in fake accounts case. Islamabad High Court orders Zardari to submit Rs500,000 in surety bonds. FO rejects accusation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-affairs","7":"tag-pakistan-affairs","8":"tag-pakistan-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}