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Svante Paabo won the 2022 Noble Prize in Medicine for Sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal

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• Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his discoveries in human evolution. 
• The Sweden-based geneticist produced a full Neanderthal genome by extracting genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones
• research led to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19
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• Svante Pääbo ForMemRS is a Swedish geneticist who specializes in the field of evolutionary genetics.
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South Korea became the first country to join NATO`s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence as a contributor in May 2022

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance that consists of 30 member states from North America and Europe.

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Six Pakistanis were among 117 UN peacekeepers who were awarded UN medals of courage on May 26, 2022 for sacrificing their lives for the cause of peace.

 Five of the six Tahir Ikram, Tahir Mehmood, Mohammed Naeem, Adil Jan and Mohammed Shafiq were from the armed forces, while the sixth, Ibrar Syed, was a civilian.

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• The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) announced on 10 October 2022 that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be the vice-chairperson for the event.

• President of Egypt, Prime Minister of Norway & Prime Minister of Pakistan will jointly chair COP27 from November 6 to November 18, 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa was awarded the King Abdulaziz Medal of Excellent Class,

an order of merit named after Saudi Arabia's founder, on 26 June 2022 by Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman.

ALL IMPORTANT QUESTION RELATED TO "QAMAR JAVED BAJWA""

Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was Becomes the 10th COAS from 29 November 2016 to 29 November 2022.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa retires on November 29 after the completion of his six-year tenure

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a series of energy and infrastructure

projects, some of which connect China’s Xinjiang to Gwadar.

Initiated in mid-2013 and formally launched in April 2015.

CPEC is generally described as a $46 billion package of Chinese aid.

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There have been only 6 nationwide censuses.

1. First Census was held in Pakistan in 1951.
2. The second Census was held in Pakistan in 1961.
3. The third Census was held in Pakistan in 1972.
4. The fourth Census was held in Pakistan in 1981.
5. The fifth Census was held in Pakistan in 1998.
6. The Sixth Census was held in Pakistan in 2017.
7. The seventh census was held in Pakistan in 2023

it was beginning in 1872 under British viceroy Lord Mayo

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 U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint pledge on 14 July 2022  to deny Iran nuclear arms, a show of unity by allies long divided over diplomacy with Iran.

Explanation

Khafala system means sponsorship system

The Kafala (Sponsorship) System emerged in the 1950s 

Kafala System was founded by the Gulf Cooperation Council nations.

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National Assembly passed the Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2021, termed widely as a “mini-budget on 13 January 2022.

The House also passed the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill 2021 on 13-01-2022.