UNITED NATIONS: A top Pakistani diplomat Tuesday called for respecting and implementing “in letter and spirit” the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan, a lower riparian state, at a preparatory meeting for the UN Water Conference 2023. “Besides climate change,” Ambassador Munir Akram said, “Pakistan’s water-vulnerability is also flowed from its […]
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At UN, Pakistan calls for raising funds to help handicapped people lead better life
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan urged the world community to mobilize financial resources to provide assistive technology devices, products and services to the more than 1 billion persons with disabilities in an effort to improve their living standards, independence and social inclusion. “Recognition of right to development of persons with disabilities can provide a formidable […]
At UN, Pakistan calls for steps for better protection of civilians in armed conflicts
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called on the United Nations to do more to ensure the protection of innocent people as the UN peacekeepers strive to keep peace in the conflicts raging around the world. “We strongly feel that the safety and security of civilians must be prioritised in decision-making regarding the allocation, deployment and use […]
At UN, Pakistan slams India’s repression in Kashmir, spotlights Yasin Malik’s sentencing
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan Wednesday drew UN Security Council’s attention to the life sentence handed down to prominent Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik by an Indian court on fake terrorism charges, and called it the “latest illustration of Indian oppression” in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). “Like other colonialists, India has sought to portray the Kashmiri […]
At UN, Pakistan spotlights Kashmiri women’s plight under Indian occupation
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on International Women’s Day put the spotlight on the plight of Kashmiri women under brutal Indian occupation during a United Nations Security Council debate on women’s rights, and urged the world body not to overlook their desperate situation. Addressing the Security Council, Ambassador Munir Akram noted the references made to the plight […]
At UN, Palestinians call on Israel to ‘end apartheid’
United Nations: The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday urged the Security Council to stop Israel from discriminating against Palestinians, wearing a black mask emblazoned with the phrase “End Apartheid.” Speaking at a monthly meeting on the Middle East, Riyad Mansour evoked the term “apartheid” 15 times and called on the Council to […]
At UN, Pakistan urges developed countries to deliver on climate action
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for urgent action to limit global warming, which poses an existential threat to humanity, during a high-level debate in the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The day-long meeting came just ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow for countries to deliver on the promise of keeping global temperature […]
At UN, Pakistan hits back at India calling it an abettor of terrorism in region
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan Friday firmly rejected India’s claim at the United Nations that Jammu and Kashmir as its integral part, saying the Himalayan state was an internationally recognized disputed territory. “Jammu and Kashmir neither is a so-called ‘integral’ part of India, nor is it India’s internal matter,” Pakistani delegate Saima Saleem said in response to […]
At UN, PM takes up Afghanistan, Covid, India
Prime Minister Imran Khan used his address to the UN General Assembly to come down hard on the West for scapegoating Pakistan for their failures in Afghanistan and asked to incentivise the country to prevent another civil war. The premier asserted that the country that suffered the most, apart from Afghanistan, was Pakistan after it […]
At UN, Boris Johnson highlights PM Imran Khan’s 10 billion trees project
UNITED NATIONS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for following the example of his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, to plant 10 billion trees, as he told world leaders at the United Nations that humanity has to “grow up” and tackle climate change. In a speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, he said […]