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• Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based in Panama, was at the center of the Panama Papers scandal.
• Where millions of confidential documents detailing offshore accounts were leaked.

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On 6 June 2024, Pakistan was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 8th time.

Pakistan garnered 182 votes in the 193-member General Assembly

Required votes: 124 votes

Pakistan, Denmark, Greece, Panama and Somalia will replace Japan, Ecuador, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland whose terms end on December 31, 2024.

Pakistan will replace Japan.

Pakistans earlier terms on the council were in 2012-13, 2003-04, 1993-94, 1983-84, 1976-77, 1968-69 and 1952-53.

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• Nagorno-Karabakh became the part of Azerbaijan as rebels give up.

• Nagorno-Karabakh authorities have ordered the dismantling of the region's state institutions by the end of 2023 decree by Artsakh's President (Samvel Shakhramanyan)

• This region has been officially recognized as part of Azerbaijan's since the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.

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Interim Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi was elected unopposed as the 37th chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Appointing date: 6 February, 2024

Tenue: three-year term

Replaced: Zaka Ashraf

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Updated & Verified on 14 August 2025

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Saudi Arabia on 11 March 2023 marked Flag Day for the first time in its history with zeal.

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The eight BRICS summit was hosted by India from 15-10-2016 to 16-10-2016.

• Know everything about BRICS: 
• BRICS founded: June 2009
  
• BRICS Member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  
• BRICS total members: 10 
• South Africa joined BRICS: 2010
• BRICS headquarters: Shanghai, China
• BRICS first conference hosted by: Russia (2009) 

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 The memogate controversy (also Mullen memo controversy) revolves around a memorandum (addressed to Admiral Mike Mullen) ostensibly seeking help of the Obama administration in the wake of the Osama bin Laden raid

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 21, 2022 announced a zero tax rate for freelancers in the information technology sector.

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As Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, many new histories were created.

Biden became the oldest President the US has ever had and his running mate Kamala Harris became the first woman and person of colour to become US Vice President.

Another person who quietly made history was 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, who became the youngest poet to recite at a presidential inauguration.