{"id":5412,"date":"2016-09-21T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:57:10","slug":"20-september-2016-national-international-current-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/currentaffairs\/20-september-2016-national-international-current-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"20 September 2016, National & International Current Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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National<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> The law secretary told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it lacks the jurisdiction to take up the matter of the Panama Papers.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> Renowned scholar and intellectual Professor Mir Abdullah Jan Jamaldini died.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan dropped by 128% in the first two months of the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) decided to award honorary PhD to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General Dr Jose Graziano Da Silva.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> The federal government accorded approval to the establishment of a regional directorate of the federal ombudsman in Gujranwala.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> Pakistan ranked 133rd out of 159 countries in the 2016 World Economic Freedom Index (WEFI).<\/p>\n

International<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> World Sushi Cup 2016 held at Tokyo. This year\u2019s title went to Celso Hideji Amano from Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> India test-fired a new long-range surface-to-air missile, Barak-8, jointly developed with Israel.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> The US officially labelled the Syrian jihadist rebel group Jund al-Aqsa a \u201cSpecially Designated Global Terrorist\u201d organization.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/strong> An Indian-origin South African Ravi Reddy has been appointed as the Head of International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Sep 20: The law secretary told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it lacks the jurisdiction to take up the matter of the Panama Papers. Sep 20: Renowned scholar and intellectual Professor Mir Abdullah Jan Jamaldini died. Sep 20: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan dropped by 128% in the first two months …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5262],"tags":[1226,2945,5272,5270,5269,4331,1140,5271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}