#current_affairs_05_05_2017
1.Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat has been awarded with King Abdul Aziz Medal of Excellence, the highest military award of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. General Zubair Mahmood Hayat also called on General Abdur Rehman bin Saleh Al-Bunyan, Chief of General Staff, Royal Saudi Armed Forces at Jeddah.
2.UN gives 55 million dollars to India for peace keeping missions.
3.The ‘world’s most experienced plaque unveiler’, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip to retire from public duties at age of 96
4.The Supreme Court’s special bench on Friday constituted the Joint Investigation Team to probe funds used by Prime Minister. Wajid Zia, an Additional Director at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), will head the six-member JIT.
5.Pakistan has warned the Afghan government of retaliatory action if Kabul fails to stop its forces. The Foreign Office also handed over a demarche to Afghan chargé d’affaires Abdul Nasir Yousufi.
6.Amna Ahmad, A British-Pakistani politician is hoping to make it to the parliament in the elections scheduled for June 8 to counter the hard Brexit agenda of the Conservative party. She has been selected as lib dem Parliamentary candidate for Liberal Democrats, Britain’s third-largest party.
7.Russia and Iran which are allies of the Syrian regime as well as the rebel supporter Turkey signed a Russia-backed plan for creating safe zones in Syria. The pact which was signed in the Kazakhstan capital Astana
8.China’s New Jetliner, the Comac C919, Takes Flight for First Time
9.Sheraz Latif assumes charge as DG Radio Pakistan
10. India launches $36m ‘South Asian satellite’ project. Pakistan refused to be part of it.
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