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About SCO Heads of Government Meeting 2024

Edition: 23rd 

Venue: Jinnah Convention Centre, Islamabad

Starting date: 15 Oct 2024

Ending date: 16 Oct 2024

Chairmanship: Pakistan  

Non-Participation: Afghanistan 

Indian Paticipataion: S. Jaishankar

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SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is an organization 

Having 10 member states with its headquarters in Beijing, China

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Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu have been awarded 2024 Nobel Prize Economics.

Awarded for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.

Their book titled 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity'  was published in 2023

Both Simon Johnson and James Robinson are British-Americans.

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American.

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 was awarded to Claudia Goldin

She is an American economic historian

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According the the United Nations World Metrological Organization (WMO), 2024 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures reaching 1.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

This was the first time the global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average.

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Full Name: Rana Sanaullah Khan

Date of Birth: 1 January 1955.

Current Position: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs since April 2024.

Previous Role: Served as the 39th Interior Minister of Pakistan in the first Shehbaz Sharif government.

Profession: Pakistani lawyer and politician.

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In 2025, former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila, Philippines and extracted to the Hague, the Netherlands.

He faces charges from International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity.

These charges relate to his controversial war on drugs, which resulted in thousands of deaths during his presidency from 2016 to 2022.

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Donald Trump has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year 2024.

He is the politician and president of the United States of America (USA)

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Taylor Swift was declared Person of the Year award 2023 by Time Magazine

Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. 

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NASA and SpaceX launched Crew-9 mission on 28 Sep, 2024 from Florida, USA.

The mission has two people on board and two empty seats to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck on the international Space Station (ISS).

Additional Information

Both Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are American astronauts.

NASA is the space agency of the USA.

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Saad Ahmad Warraich assumes responsibility as Pakistan's new (head) Charge d'Affaires in India since Feb 2024

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Know about the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2024

Released by Transparency International

Total countries: 180

Least Corrupt: Denmark

Top Currupt: South Sudan

Pakistan Ranking: 135

Note: Denmark also topped the least country in 2023 & 2025

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Explanation

Know about Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2024

Released by Transparency International

Total countries: 180

Topper: Denmark

Bottom: South Sudan

Pakistan Ranking: 135

Note: Pakistan was ranked 133 in CPI in 2023

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