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Pakistan needs a strong literacy movement to achieve its targets of increasing the literacy rate up to 86 percent by the year 2015, and...

The United States warned the world was sliding backwards on religious freedoms Monday, slamming China for cracking down on Tibetan Buddhists and hitting out...

The United States warned the world was sliding backwards on religious freedoms Monday, slamming China for cracking down on Tibetan Buddhists and hitting...

Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon told the UN Security Council that his country's "restraint" in reacting to the recent...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office is increasing pressure on Pakistan to address the ongoing shelling into Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province by threatening to take...

Criticising the Obama administration’s reliance on drones, a UN investigator has asked the US government to clarify its procedures on compensation to the families...

Iran has claimed that it had begun work on designing the country's first nuclear-powered submarine, a technology possessed by a select group of nations. Senior...

The United Nations Friday reported a sharp drop in global food prices during May owing to generally favourable supplies, growing global economic uncertainties and...

Leading Sikh organisations have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to take stock of the overall, what they called “very grim and concerning situation”...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanthem Pillay called on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday, and told him that political will was...

When the world celebrated UN peacekeeping day this year, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations being second largest troops contributor country in...

The United Nations Tuesday honoured the sacrifices of 112 peacekeepers including 8 Pakistanis. Addressing a solemn ceremony marking the annual International Day of UN Peacekeepers,...

An Arab ministerial committee proposed Saturday taking an Arab League plan to end the crisis in Syria to the UN Security Council, Qatar Prime...

A proposed UN resolution on Yemen calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign that fails to threaten sanctions is unlikely to stem the...

Sindh government has come forward to rescue the army and the ISI from criticism by Nawaz Sharif, saying that it is proud of these...

DOHA/TRIPOLI - A group of Western powers and Middle Eastern states called for the first time on Wednesday for Moammer Gaddafi to step aside, but North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) countries squabbled publicly over stepping up air strikes to help topple him.
In a victory for Britain and France, which are leading the air campaign in Libya and pushed for an unequivocal call for regime change, the "contact group" of some 16 European and Middle Eastern nations, plus the United

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Monday called for broad-based consensus between all the political parties for evolving a joint strategy on major challenges confronted by the country. Identifying the four major challenges as economy, energy, education and terrorism at a press conference here, he said that no single party could steer the country out of the challenging situation. MNA Marvi Memon and Deputy Secretary Information Ghulam