Current Affairs Lecture 30

i. Urdu Zakir and Poet Rehan Azmi passed away on 26

January 2021.
iii. IPO ( Intellectual Property Organization ) awarded Geographical Indication
Tag to Pakistani Basmati Rice.
iv. Pakistan first Human Rights Portal was set up with the help of EU on 27
January 2021.
v. Malaysian authorities seized the Boeing 777 aircraft on January 15 after a
court allowed an application by the plane’s lessor, Peregrine Aviation
Charlie Limited, to keep it grounded pending the outcome of a $14m lease
dispute with PIA in a United Kingdom court.
vi. Pakistan at corruption perception index 140 while it was 120 in 2019.
vii. Person of the Decade – Bilquis Edhi
- Professor Yang Lee
- US Ethicist – Stephen Soldz
Viii. Bill for Arabic as compulsory language was passed by Senate of PAKISTAN on February 01 2021.
Ix. National Forest Monitoring system was launched on 01 February 2021.

GK Dose :

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international

security and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001. It is the world's
largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering
approximately 80% of the area of Eurasia[4] and 40% of the world population. As of 2021, its
combined GDP was around 20% of global GDP.[5]

The SCO is the successor to the Shanghai Five, formed in 1996 between the People's
Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.[6] In June 2001, the
leaders of these nations and Uzbekistan met in Shanghai to announce a new
organization with deeper political and economic cooperation. In June 2017, it expanded
to eight states, with India and Pakistan. Iran joined the group in July 2023. Several
countries are engaged as observers or dialogue partners.
The SCO is governed by the Heads of State Council (HSC), its supreme decision-making
body, which meets once a year. The organization also contains the so-called Regional
Antiterrorist Structure (RATS).

Summits :
 30 November videoconference
India
2020

25 November
Kazakhstan videoconference
2021

1 November
China videoconference
2022

26 October 2023 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek