{"id":88601,"date":"2021-12-18T00:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=88601"},"modified":"2021-12-18T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:21:33","slug":"current-affairs-17th-december-2021-top-pakistan-current-affairs-for-ppsc-test-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/current-affairs-17th-december-2021-top-pakistan-current-affairs-for-ppsc-test-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"[Current Affairs] 17th December, 2021 Top Pakistan Current Affairs for PPSC Test Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today\u2019s top Pakistan current affairs 17th December 2021 with download link available in pdf. These are the latest breaking news about Pakistan which will be helpful for aspirants in test preparation of current affairs, Pakistan affairs, General knowledge for NTS, PPSC, CSS, FPSC, <\/strong><strong>KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, OTS, PTS, and other Govt Jobs, exams &amp; MDCAT, ECAT Entry test preparation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>One Liner<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Countries\u2019 poverty not due to lack of resources but leaders\u2019 corruption:<\/span> PM ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday while calling corruption a reason to destroy a country, said the factor behind the countries\u2019 poverty was not the lack of resources but the corruption of their leadership.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">ECC approves Rs106.1 Ehsaas Rashan Raya. <\/span>The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Friday approved the summary of Poverty Alleviation &amp; Social Safety (PASS) Division for the launching of the Ehsaas Targeted Commodity Subsidy Programme (ETCSP), allowing 8% Ehsaas Rashan commission for Kiryana retailers.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Saudi delegation arrives in Pakistan to attend OIC summit on Afghanistan <\/span>ISLAMABAD: Saudi delegates reached Islamabad on Friday to attend an extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, scheduled to take place on December 19, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Human rights conundrum. <\/span>In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted \u2018Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Rights embodied in the UDHR forms most democracies globally and countries recognize them, at least principally.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">OIC diplomats arrive as Afghans face a humanitarian catastrophe. <\/span>Pakistan is all set to host the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Islamabad on Sunday with a one-point agenda to avert humanitarian catastrophe and economic collapse of Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">PTV archives OIC 1974 summit\u2019s coverage in HD quality <\/span>ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (APP): The Pakistan Television (PTV) has for the first time archived the coverage of the second summit of Organization of Islamic Conference 1974 in HD quality hosted by Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Egypt acquires 23 German IRIS-T SL GBAD. <\/span>The old federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel approved two sensitive arms exports to Egypt shortly before the change of government.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Gold Rate In Pakistan Today<\/span>, 17th December 2021. Gold Rate in Pakistan today on 17th December 2021 is being sold for Rs. 100,570 per 10 grams, and the price of Gold is Rs. 117,300 per tola in Pakistan today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotlight by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsrun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The NewsRun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>24-hour recap:\u00a0<\/strong>Pakistan reported<strong>\u00a0370 cases<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a04 deaths<\/strong>\u00a0in 24 hours. Pakistan also conducted\u00a0<strong>44,609\u00a0tests<\/strong>\u00a0in the span of 24 hours (P.S. this data was last updated on December 15\u00a0at 7:26 am).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_1824830213398787515size-18\" lang=\"x-size-18\"><strong>2. Allegations about PTI leaders paying the Prime Minister\u2019s household expenses<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s going on?\u00a0<\/strong>Former member of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party,\u00a0retired\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justice_r_wajih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/newsletter.thenewsrun.com\/t\/j-l-zjdlild-ihtjuhiihj-t\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639711460598000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1WJWHDgLsMJEot262YVgzb\">Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed<\/a>, claimed that PTI leader,\u00a0Jahangir Khan Tareen, used to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1663788\/jahangir-tareen-used-to-pay-up-to-rs5-million-to-run-imran-khans-house-claims-wajihuddin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/newsletter.thenewsrun.com\/t\/j-l-zjdlild-ihtjuhiihj-i\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639711460598000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1O8xYmkjiR8kVWAiRtc80p\">provide funds<\/a>\u00a0of up to Rs. 3 million a month for Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s household expenses. While making these claims on\u00a0<em>Bol News<\/em>, Ahmed reportedly did not provide proof to back up his allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Something to know:\u00a0<\/strong>Ahmed served as Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and as a senior justice of the Supreme Court. When he was head of PTI\u2019s election tribunal, he led an investigation into irregularities in PTI\u2019s intra-party elections. Dawn stated that Ahmed \u201cdeveloped differences\u201d with the party\u2019s leadership while trying to implement the election tribunal\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[dkpdf-button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s top Pakistan current affairs 17th December 2021 with download link available in pdf. These are the latest breaking news about Pakistan which will be helpful for aspirants in test preparation of current affairs, Pakistan affairs, General knowledge for NTS, PPSC, CSS, FPSC, KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, OTS, PTS, and other Govt Jobs, exams &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88601","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}