Current Affairs for PPSC & FPSC 100 marks paper.

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The first Twenty20 hat-trick was taken by Brett Lee of Australia, playing against Bangladesh in Cape Town on September 2007.

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Catalans declare independence as Madrid imposes direct rule
27 October 2017

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The Catalan independence referendum of 2017, also known by the numeronym 1-O (for "1 October") in Spanish and Catalan media, was an independence referendum held on 1 October 2017 in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia,

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Islamabad on October 24 on his inaugural trip to Pakistan as Secretary of State.

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A record-tying eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in number.
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands. Some astronomers, however, suspect there could be a large ninth planet out there: an elusive Planet X the size of Neptune but much farther out.

The Kepler-90 system also could have a ninth planet or more, according to the researchers. It is 2,545 light-years away; a light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.

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Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India's most famous political dynasty, on Saturday took over as president of the main opposition Congress

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5 landmark decisions announced by the SC on a Friday

Over the past decade, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has repeatedly chosen Friday to issue several landmark judgements that have left a major impact on the country's political system.
July 20, 2007

A 13-member bench of SC judges unanimously overturned former president Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend then chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

July 31, 2009

The SC declared Musharraf's decision to impose an emergency on November 3, 2007 as well as his Provisional Constitutional Order illegal and unconstitutional.

July 28, 2017

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif stepped down as prime minister after he was disqualified by a five-member bench of Supreme Court judges in the Panama Papers case.

December 8, 2017

A Lahore High Court verdict halting the construction the Orange Line Metro Train was set aside by a SC bench and the Punjab government was allowed to go ahead with the project subject to certain conditions to ensure the preservation of heritage sites int he area.

December 15, 2017

The three-member bench comprising SC judges rejected the National Accountability Bureau's appeal to reopen the Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya Paper Mills reference. The reference would have further complicated the Sharif family's legal troubles.

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first flag of the country — presented to Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by Liaquat Ali Khan during the first meeting of the constituent assembly on August 11, 1947.

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ICC Test Ranking
RANK TEAM RATINGS
1 India 124
2 South Africa 111
3 England 105
4 New Zealand 100
5 Australia 97
6 Sri Lanka 94
7 Pakistan 88
8 West Indies 72
9 Bangladesh 72
10 Zimbabwe 2

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ICC ODI Ranking
RANK TEAM RATINGS
1 South Africa 120
2 India 119
3 Australia 114
4 England 114
5 New Zealand 111
6 Pakistan 99
7 Bangladesh 92
8 Sri Lanka 84
9 West Indies 77
10 Zimbabwe 52
11 Afghanistan 51
12 Ireland 44