Pakistan Current Affairs

The Balochistan government presented a deficit budget for the next fiscal year on June 21, 2022, with a total outlay of Rs612.79 billion. With the provincial income estimated at Rs540bn, the deficit would stand at Rs72.8bn or around 12 percent of the outlay.

Aamir Liaquat Hussain passed away on June 9, 2022 in Karachi, Pakistan. He was 50 years old. Hussain was a Pakistani television host, politician, and religious scholar. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1971. He started his career as a television host in the early 1990s. He hosted several popular television shows, including “Aalim Online” and “Shar-e-Qaidam”. He also served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022.

The first Pakistani film selected in Cannes International Film Festival is Joyland. It premiered at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2022, in the Un Certain Regard section, where it competed for the Caméra d’Or. It won the Jury Prize and the Queer Palm award.

Umar Ata Bandial, the 28th Chief Justice of Pakistan, was named among Time Magazine`s 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. He was described as a “polite and understated” chief justice who is “widely respected for his personal integrity.” Bandial has been praised for his handling of several high-profile cases, including the overturning of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s dissolution of Parliament. He is seen as a key figure in Pakistan’s political landscape and his influence is likely to grow in the years to come.

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the teachers that took place near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute on April 26, 2022. The attack killed three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver.