Current Affairs Update 05 Dec 2016-Monday

# Organization/ Post Head/ country

1. Head of State 12th-President Mamnoon Hussain, PML-N- 9thSept 2013
2. Head of Government 18thPM Nawaz Sharif, PML-N Chief also-5 June 2013
3. General Elections held in Pakistan 11thMay 2013,Voter turnout:55.02%,PML-N 32.77%
votes win 126 seats, PPP 15.23% win 33 seats, PTI
16.92%,28 seats
4. Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar sworn, 25th
5. Federal Interior/ Narcotics Minister Ch Nisar, PML-N
6. Foreign Minister No FM but Advisor to PM on foreign Affairs-Sartaj Aziz, PML-N
7. Federal Defence Minister/ Water & Power Khawaja Asif, PML-N
8. State Information/ Law Minister Maryam Aurangzeb, PML-N
9. Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, PML-N
10. Attorney General of Pakistan Ashtar Ausaf
11. Governor State Bank of Pak Mr Ashraf Mahmood Wathra
12. Deputy Governor of SBP Saeed Ahmed, Riaz Riazuddin
13. President SCBA Barrister Rasheed A Rizvi
14. Governor Indian Occupied Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra-25thJune 2008
15. CM Indian Occupied Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed (First Woman CM) Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP)
16. Kashmir President (Azad Jammu & 27th Sardar Masood Khan- 25 Aug 2016
Kashmir)
17. Kashmir PM (Azad Jammu & Kashmir) Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan- 31July 2016
18. AJK speaker & Deputy Speaker Speaker: Shah Ghulam Qadir, Dpty Spekr: Sardar Farooq Tahir
(Both PML-N)
19. Azad Kashmir opposition leader (AJK) Ch.Muhammad Yaseen, PPP
20. Balochistan: Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai, PkMAP
21. Balochistan: CM Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, PML-N
22. KPK : Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, PML-N
23. KPK: CM Pervez Khattak, PTI
24. Sindh: Governor Mohammad Zubair, PML-N
25. Sindh: CM Syed Murad Ali Shah, PPP
26. Punjab: Governor Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana
27. Punjab: CM Mian Shahbaz Sharif, PML-N
28. Gilgit Baltistan: Governor Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan -PML-N
29. Gilgit Baltistan: CM Hafiz Hafeez Ur Rehman (1st CM Syed Mehdi Shah)
30. Pakistan permanent representative to UN Maleeha Lodhi- 8th Feb 2015
31. Pak Army/ Chief 16th COAS Gen Qamar Javed (Baloch Reg)-29thNov 16
32. PAF/ Chief 21st Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman- 19thMarch 15
33. Pak Navy/ Chief 20thAdmiral Muhammad Zakaullah-7thOct 15
34. Chairman Joint Chief of Staff 17thGen Zubair Mahmood Hayat (Artillery Regiment)-
Committee(CJCSC) 29thNov 2016
35. NAB/ Chief Ch Qamar uz Zaman
36. ISI Chief Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar
37. FIA Chief Muhammad Amlish
38. DG ISPR/ Spokesperson Army Major General Asif Ghafoor
39. National Disaster Management Authority Chairman Major Gen Major Asghar Nawaz-15Jan 2015
(NDMA)
40. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shahryar Khan
41. Total amendments in Constitution of Pak 23
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42. Pakistans foreign Secretary Nafees Zakaria
43. Pakistans Defence Secretary Lt Gen (R) Zameer ul Hassan Shah
44. Pakistans Ambassador to USA Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
45. Pakistans High Commissioner to UK Syed Ibne Abbas
46. Pakistans Ambassador to China Masood Khalid Jan
47. Pakistans High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit
48. Paks Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain
49. Pakistans Ambassador to Iran Asif Ali Khan Durrani
50. Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Rafiuzzaman Siddiqui
51. Pakistans High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Maj Gen (R) Syed Shakeel Hussain
52. Paks Ambassador to KSA Manzoor ul Haq
53. Paks Ambassador to Turkey Sohail Mahmood
54. Paks Ambassador to Germany Jauhar Saleem
55. Paks Ambassador to Russia Qazi M. Khalilullah
56. Paks Ambassador to France Moin-ul-Haque
57. Paks Ambassador to Australia Naela Chohan
58. USA Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale
59. UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew
60. Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale
61. China Ambassador to Pak Sun Weidong
62. Afghanistan ambassador to Pak Omar Zakhilwal
63. Iran ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost
64. Turkey Ambassador to Pakistan Sadik Babr Girgin
65. Bangladesh High Commissioner to Pak Tarik Ahsan
66. Sri Lanka High Commissioner to Pak Maj. General (R) Jayanath C.P. Lokuketagodage
67. KSA Ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz Al-Ghadeer
68. Germany Ambassador to Pakistan Ina Lepel
69. Russia Ambassador to Pakistan Santa Alexey Yurevich
70. France Ambassador to Pakistan Mrs. Martine DORANCE
71. Australian Ambassador to Pakistan Ms Margaret Adamson
72. Pakistan budget 2016-17 (10% higher than Railway: Rs 78 billion
the previous budget 2015-16.) Energy Projects: Rs 380 billion
Total layout: 4.394 trillion (4394 billion) or Deficit: Rs 1.2 trillion
(4390000 millions) Tax Collection: 3.1 trillion
Defence budget:860 billion(10.2% increase) Inflation Rate: 2.82%
GDP: 4.71% Per Capital Income: 1561 US Dollars
Higher Education budget: 79.5 billion Minimum Wage: Rs 14,000 rupees
Health: 22.4 billion Tax collection: Rs 3.1 trillion
73. American Chapter (States: 50) Last Joined State: Hawaii Constitution presented: 4 March 1789
Elections held: 8 November 2016 (24 people cabinet)
Speaker: John Boehner Attorney General: Eric Holder
President: 45th Donald Trump (Republican Party) Vice president: Michael R. Pence
(He became the oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency). Trump received 304 electoral
votes to Clinton's 227 votes. 5th person to be elected president after losing the popular vote.
PM: no PM- Presidential form of Govt- Envoy to UN: Nikki R. Haley
Secretary of State: Rex W Tillerson Defence Secretary: James Mattis Interior Secretary: Ryan Zinke
Secretary of Homeland Security: John F. Kelly Chief Justice SC: John G. Roberts Jr.
US special Rep for Pak and Afghan: Richard Olson Acting Special Representative Laurel Miller
USA-ISAF commander in Afghanistan: Jens Stoltenberg
Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA): Gen, Mark A. Milley
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Gen Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO): Admiral John Richardson
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 Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF): Mark A. Welsh III
74.
Indian Chapter Indian Election: 2009
President: Parnab Mukherji Vice president: Hamid Ansari
PM: 15th-Narendra Modi-26th May 2014
Foreign Minister: Sushma Swaraj-26thMay 2014 Defence Minister: Finance minister Arun Jaitley
(Additional charge)
Interior/ Home Minister: Shri Rajnath Singh-26thMay 2014
Chief Justice of India: Jagdish Singh Khehar
COAS: Gen Bipin Rawat
Air Force Chief: Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh Naval Chief: Admiral Sunil Lanba
Indian permanent representative to UN: Syed Akbaruddin
Hamid Ansari, India: Elected as vice president for second term- 7 August 2012
Chairman Rajia Sabha/ Political party
75. Bangladesh Chapter 10th Parliament Election in 5 Jan 2014
President: Hamid Advocate 22 April 2013 PM: Sheikh Hasina (Wajid) also Defence Minister
FM: Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali Interior/ Home Minister: Asaduzzaman Khan
76. China Chapter
President: Xi Jinping -15 November 2012 Vice President: Li Yuanchao
PM: Li Keqiang15 March 2013while (Vice PM 4) Foreign Minister: Wang Yi
Army Chief: Gen Fang Fenghui
77. Pak-China friendship year 2011
78. Pakistan Senate
79. Chairman D. Chairman Leader of the House Leader of the opposition
80. Senator Raza Rabbani, PPP Maulana Abdul Raja Zafar ul Haq, Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan, PPP
Ghafoor PML-N
Haideri, JUI-F
81. Speakers of Assemblies
82. N.Assembly Sindh Baloch KPK Assembly Gilgit-B Punjab
83. Sardar Ayaz Agha Siraj Rahila Hameed Asad Qaiser Fida Muhammad Rana Muh:
Sadiq Khan Durani Khan Nashad, PML-N Iqbal Khan
84. Deputy Speakers of Assemblies
85. N.Assembly Sindh Balochs KPK Assembly Gilgit-B Punjab
86. Murtaza Shehla Raza X Meher Taj Jaffarullah Sher Ali
Javed Abbasi Roghani (F) Khan, PML-N Gorchani
87. Opposition leaders of Assemblies
88. N.Assembly Sindh Balochs KPK Assembly Gilgit-B Punjab
89. Syed Khawaja Maulana Maulana Lutf ur X Mian Mahmood
Khursheed Izharul Abdul Wasay Rehman, JUI-F ur Rasheed, PTI
Shah, PPP Hassan, MQM JUI- F
Panama Leaks OR The Panama Papers
149 of the documents themselves, were published on April 3, 2016.
The Panama Papers are a leaked set of 11.5 million (comprised of 2.6 terabytes of data)
confidential documents that provide detailed information about more than 214,000 offshore
companies listed by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca.
Data in Panama papers: More than 40 other countries.
Data was provided to the: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
The papers were distributed to and analyzed by about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations
in more than 80 countries.
Impact: Controversies all over the world and PM Iceland, Sigmundur Dav Gunnlaugsson,
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Current Affairs Pakistan

Pak Army launched operation on 15 June 2014 in NWA named: Zarb-e-Azb
Pak Army launched operation on 17 October 2014 in SWA named: Khyber I
Operation in Swat: Operation Rah-e-Rast. 16 May 15 July 2009 (4 weeks and 2 days)
Operation in SWA: Operation Rah-e-Nijat (English: Path to Salvation) 19 June - 12 December
2009 (5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Sports Updates General
Captain Cricket team Australia: Steven Smith (both one day and test)
Captain Cricket team England: Alastair Cook (both one day and test)
Captain Cricket team West Indies: Jason Holder
Captain Cricket team Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews (Test: Rangana Herath)
Captain Cricket team South Africa: AB de Villiers (Test: FAF du Plessis)
Captain Cricket team New Zealand: Kane Williamson
Captain Cricket team Zimbabwe: Graeme Cremer
Captain Cricket team Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza
Captain Cricket team India: Virat Kohli
Indian womens team won Kabbadi World Cup from New Zealand by 49:21
Pakistan Sports Current Affairs
http://www.pcb.com.pk/corporate-structure.html
Chairman of Pak Cricket Board: Shaharyar M. Khan
Head Coach Pak cricket team: Mickey Arthur
Chief Selector of Pak cricket team: Inzamam-ul-Haq
Manager of Pak cricket team: Wasim Bari
Batting coach of Pak Cricket Team: Grant Flower (Fielding Coach: Steve Rixon)
Bowling Coach of Pak Cricket Team (ODI): Azhar Mahmood
Captain of Pak Cricket team (Test): Misbahul Haq
Captain of Pak Cricket team (T20I): Sarfraz Ahmed
Captain of Pak Women Cricket team: Sana Mir
Captain of Pak Women Cricket team (T20): Bismah Maroof
Captain of Pak Cricket Team (Blind): Zeeshan Abbasi
ICC T20 Performance of the Year award 2013 to: Umer Gul, Pakistani bowler
Coach of Pak Hockey Team: Brig (B) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar
Coach of Pak Hockey Team: K. M. Junaid
Manager of Pak Hockey Team: Hanif Khan
Captain of Pak Hockey Team: Muhammad Irfan
2012 IBSF World Snooker Championship: Mohammad Asif, from Sheikhupura
World Record of singing together National Anthem by India:121,653
World Records in Punjab Youth Festival 2014 (nine records )
World Record of Human Flag by Pakistan: 29,400 studentsor29,040made record in Lahore
World Record of Waving National Flag together: 56,263
Mohammad Arbab, Captain in Pakistan Army: 65 push-ups by one hand in a minute with 40
pound weight.
Seven young Pakistani made new world record by controlling the heaviest weight with nails in
a most layered bed of nails sandwich.

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 Expert of Martial Arts, Mohammad Rashid: cracked 155 walnuts against the head in one minute.
Farhan Ayub set the world record by doing the most number of kip ups in break dance style in
one minute.
Nadeem Abbas made the new record by doing the most push-ups using back of hands carrying a
40lb pack in one minute.
Mujtaba Hussain broke the world record of smashing the most walnuts with a nunchaku in one
minute. He smashed 107 walnuts in a minute. Before this, a Chinese man have this record.
Ali Haider doing 52 push-ups in a minute using the back of hands, carrying a 60 lb broke the
record hold by a British citizen.
Zafar Iqbal broke the world record, which was hold by a Lebanese citizen by doing 100 push-
ups in one minute with a 40 lb weight at the back.
90. World Sports Current Affairs 2016
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6 T20 World Cup: West Indies beat England by 4 wkts (8 Mar-03 April) (16 Teams), held at
Kolkata hosted India
5th T20 Women World Cup: West Indies beat Australia by 8 wkts (15 Mar 3 Apr) held at Kolkata,
hosted by India.
T20 world cup (Men and women) held on the same day, same ground at the same venue (at Eden
Gardens, Kolkata).
West Indies became the first team to win both the men's and women's World Twenty20s on the same
day, with the women defeating Australia by 8 wickets.
91. World Sports 2014
Commonwealth Games 2014: England 170, Australia 135, Canada 82
Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament: Australia won final 8th time against Malaysia by 8-3 in
Ipoh, Malaysia.
T20 Lowest record runs: Netherlands out at 39 against Sri Lanka
8 runs record without bowling a single ball: Abdul ur Rehman (Pak) against Bangladesh
92. World Current Affairs
93. Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President died of cancer in March 2013.
94. Indian Parliament Rajia Sabha-Senate (Upper House)
Lok Sabha-assembly (Lower House)
95. Pakistan (Pakistan is the 14th August 1947 (27thRamzan 1366 A.H) also called as
world's fifth largest democracy and Yom-e-Istaqilal, Yom-e-Azadi)(34th largest in world and
the world's second largest Muslim largest in Muslim countries in 1947)
democracy after Indonesia) Resolution was passed: 23 March 1940 (Minto Park
Lahore by A.K FazlulHaq, now Iqbal Park)
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (official): 23 March 1956
President, PM, Foreign Affairs, Defence Ministers and Home
Ministers of Some Important Countries.
# Country Name President Prime Minister Foreign
Minister
1) Iran Dr. Hassan Rouhani PM: post abolished Mohammad
Supreme Leader: Syed Ali Hosseini in 1979 due to Javad Zarif
Khamenei (Since4 June Iranian revolution
1989)Presidential elections: 14
June 2013
2) Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Post abolished in Salahuddin
Elections held on 5 April 2014 2001, Taliban Rabbani
Chief Executive Officer of captured in 1996
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3) United Kingdom (UK) No president: Theresa May Boris Johnson
Only country without written Queen: Deputy PM: Not in
constitution Elizabeth II this Govt
UK ambassador to UN: Mark Lyall (Elizabeth Alexandra
Grant (Since Nov 2009) Mary)
4) Israel Reuven Rivlin Benjamin Benjamin
Netanyahu Netanyahu
5) Sri Lanka:9 January 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Ranil Mangala Pinsiri
Capital: Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte/ Wickremesinghe Samaraweera
Official Language: Sinhala/ Tamil/ Independence from
UK: 4 Feb 1948
6) Saudi Arabia King (President& PM) Crown prince: Saud
Salman bin Abdulaziz (Deputy PM) bin Faisal bin Ab
Al Saud Muqrin bin dulaziz Al Saud
Abdulaziz
7) Russia Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Sergey Lavrov
Russian ambassador to UN: Elections:
4 March 12
8) France Francois Hollande Bernard Cazeneuve Jean Marc
(Change: 23 Apr 17) Ayrault
9) Germany Joachim Gauck Chancellor: Frank-Walter
Elections: 22 September 2013 Angela Merkel Steinmeier
10) Canada Governor General: Justin Trudeau Stphane Dion
Queen: Elizabeth II Elizabeth David Johnston
Alexandra Mary
11) Australia= Elections No president Malcolm Turnbull Julie Bishop
4 August 2013
12) Japan Emperor: Akihito Shinzo Abe Fumio Kishida
13) Turkey Tayyip Erdogan Binali Yldrm Mevlut
Cavusoglu
14) Maldives (Independence from UK:26 Abdulla Yameen No PM. Dr Mohamed
July 1965)Area:298 sq.km/ 115 sq.mi Abdul Gayoom Asim
15) Myanmar Htin Kyaw 30 March 2011 post Daw Aung San
abolished Suu Kyi
16) South Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn Hwang Kyo-ahn Yun Byung-se
(Acting)
17) North Korea: Supreme Leader Pak Pong-Ju Ri Yong-ho
(President): Kim Jong
Un
18) Denmark Queen Margrethe II Lars Lkke Anders
Prince: Henrik Rasmussen Samuelsen
19) Brazil Michel Temer No PM Jos Serra
20) Indonesia Joko Widodo No PM Retno Marsudi
21) Venezuela Nicolas MADURO No PM Delcy Eloina
Moros Rodriguez Gomez
22) Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe No Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
PM
23) Yemen Abed Rabbo Mansour Ahmed Obeid bin Abd al-Malik
Hadi ( fled to Riyadh) Daghr (in Aden) Abd al-Jalil al-
Abdel-Aziz bin Mikhlafi
Habtour (in Sana'a)
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24) Qatar Ameer: Sheikh Tamim Abdallah bin Nasir Muhammad bin
bin Hamad bin Khalifa bin Khalifa Al Abd al-Rahman
Al Thani Thani Al Thani
25) UAE Sheikh Khalifa Bin Sheikh Mohammed Sheikh Abdullah
Zayed Al Nahyan Bin Rashid Al Bin Zayed Al
Maktum Nahyan
26) Italy No President Paolo Gentiloni Angelino Alfano
27) Spain King: (President) Presifent: Mariano Alfonso Mara
FELIPE VI Rajoy Brey Dastis Quecedo
28) Iraq Fouad Massoum Haider al-Abadi Dr. Ibrahim al-
Jaafari
29) Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Sherif Ismail Sameh Hassan
Shoukry
30) Libya - Fayez al-Sarraj Mohamed Taha
Siala
31) Malaysia King (President): Najib Razak Anifah Aman
Abdul Halim
Mu'adzam Shah
32) Nepal Bidya Devi Bandhari Pushpa Kamal Prakash Sharan
Dahal Mahat
33) New Zealand Governor General: Bill English Murray Stuart
(president): Dame Mccully
Patsy Reddy
34) Norway King (President): Erna Solberg Borge Brende
Harald V
35) Oman Sultan (President): Qaboos bin said al Yousuf bin Alawi
Qaboos Bin Said Al said bin Abdullah
Said
36) Panama Juan carlos varela No PM Isabel Saint Malo
de Alvarado
37) Sweden King (President): Carl Stefan lofven Margot
Xvi Gustaf wallstrom
38) Switzerland Doris Leuthard No pm Didier burkhalter
39) Vietnam Trn i Quang Nguyen Xuan Phuc Pham Binh Minh
40) Palestine President: Mahmoud Rami Hamdallah Riad Al-Malk
Abbas
41) Vatican State alsocalled Holy See= Area:0.44 sq.km/0.17 Pope: Francis (in 2013)
sq.mi/ 44 ha/110 acres Secretary of State (President): Pietro
Independence: 11 Feb 1929 through Latern Treaty/ Only Parolin
Monarchy in Europe. Not member of UN. Secretary for Relations With States
(FM): Paul Gallagher
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