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September 03, 2021.

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. Veteran Kashmiri leader Geelani passes
away
• Syed Ali Geelani, a top Kashmiri leader and one of the severest
critics of India`s occupation of Kashmir, died late on September 1,
2021. He was 92.
• Geelani died surrounded by family members at his home in
Srinagar, an aide and his relative said.

2. PM launches Ehsaas Education Stipends

programme
• Prime Minister Imran Khan on September 1, 2021 said the
government was committed to sending all children to schools by
giving incentives to them.
• `Over 20 million children in the country are out of schools. Efforts
are under way to ensure their inclusion in the educational
mainstream,` the prime minister said while launching the Ehsaas
Education Stipends programme.
• The programme is aimed at providing financial assistance to
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deserving households for the education of their children at primary,
secondary and higher secondary levels.

3. First CPEC power transmission project

gets under way
• The first China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project in the
power evacuation and transmission sector, the 660kV High-Voltage
Direct Current (HVDC) Matiari Lahore transmission line, started
commercial operations on September 1, 2021 on its scheduled date.
• On the first day, the project saved the country from a major
breakdown by protecting the transmission, dispatch and distribution
systems from a possible cascading effect due to tripping at Jamshoro.

4. People under 18 to get Pfizer jabs: NCOC

• On a day when the government initiated vaccination of youngsters
aged between 17 and 18 years, the National Command and Operation
Centre (NCOC) issued revised guidelines according to which only
Pfizer vaccine will be administered to all those under 18.
• The revised guidelines for vaccination of age groups below 18 years,
according to an NCOC announcement, are effective from Wednesday.

5. Taliban parade shows off seized US

hardware
• A Black Hawk helicopter flew circles over the Taliban`s spiritual
heartland in southern Afghanistan on September 1, 2021 while
fighters below stood aboard captured Humvees as the Islamist group
paraded US military hardware.
• The Taliban`s victory lap, celebrating the final withdrawal of US
troops, followed the group`s astonishing two week takeover that
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capped a simmering 20-year insurgency.
• Also on Wednesday, thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan
rushed to its borders as an administrative vacuum left foreign donor
sunsure of how to respond to a looming humanitarian crisis

6. China opens new route to Indian Ocean via

Myanmar
• China`s special envoy for Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang visited
Myanmar last week for talks with its military rulers, as a new route
spanning the Southeast Asian nation opened up connecting Chinese
trade flows to the Indian Ocean.
• As opposed to most Western countries that have condemned the
Myanmar army for ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu
Kyi, China has taken a softer line and said its priorities are stability
and not interfering in its neighbour.

7. Pollution to reduce life expectancy of 480m

Indians by 9 years: study
• Air pollution is likely to reduce the life expectancy of about 40 per
cent of Indians by more than nine years, according to a report released
by a US research group on September 1, 2021.
• More than 480 million people living in the vast swathes of central,
eastern and northern India, including the capital, New Delhi, endure
significantly high pollution levels, said the report prepared by the
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
• `Alarmingly, India`s high levels of air pollution have expanded
geographically over time,` the EPIC report said
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8. Truce comes into force in southern Syria
• A Russian-brokered ceasefire came into force on Wednesday in
Daraa province, the cradle of Syria`s uprising where government
forces have been battling holdout rebels, a war monitor and state
media said.
• The southern province of Daraa, held for years by opposition forces,
was returned to government control in 2018 under a previous
Moscow-backed ceasefire that had allowed rebels to stay in some
areas.

9. UN softens up to Taliban, but keeps them

on sanctions list
• The UN Security Council has quietly omitted the word `Taliban`
from its statements naming the groups that are required not to support
terrorists operating from Afghanistan.
• On Aug 16, the Security Council issued a statement, `reaffirming the
importance of combating terrorism in Afghanistan` and of ensuring
that the Afghan territory `is not used to threaten or attack any country.

10. Taliban approve Afghanistan`s first

Test in Australia
• The Taliban have approved Afghanistan`s first cricket Test since
their takeover, raising hopes that international matches will continue
as usual under the new rule of the Islamists.
• `We have got approval to send the team to Australia,` chief
executive of the Afghanistan Cricket Board Hamid Shinwari.
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