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UN committee condemns rights violations against Rohingya
YANGON: A key United Nations committee overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Friday strongly condemning the continuing "gross human rights violations and abuses" against Rohingya...
Pakistan to table resolutions on regional disarmament at First Committee of...
NEW YORK: Pakistan will present resolutions on regional disarmament, conventional arms control in the First Committee of the United Nations (UN) which deals with disarmament...
UN denies forcing Aasia Bibi’s lawyer to leave Pakistan
The United Nations on Tuesday denied that it had forced Saiful Mulook, the lawyer of Aasia Bibi, to leave the country.
Saiful Mulook had fled...
Saudi Arabia assures UN to prosecute Khashoggi’s killers
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia told the United Nations on Monday it would prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul...
Peace in region not possible without resolution of Kashmir dispute: moot
--Speakers condemn mass killings, torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and use of sexual violence as an instrument of war by Indian forces in the...
Pakistan urges UN to play its role in halting genocide in...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to play its role in halting...
China to face grilling at UN review over internment camps for...
China will be grilled over its mass detainment of Uighur minorities during a UN human rights review on Tuesday, with Washington leading demands for...
Only 4 per cent of Pakistani children receiving “minimally acceptable diet,”...
Only four per cent of children in Pakistan are receiving "minimally acceptable diet," according to a report by the UN, a local media outlet...
Pakistan pushes UN to establish commission to probe Indian atrocities in...
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has renewed its call for the United Nations (UN) to set up a ‘commission of inquiry’ — the world body's highest-level...
Death toll from Saudi airstrike in Yemen rises to 21
SANAA: A Saudi-led coalition airstrike at a fruit-and-vegetable market near Yemen’s flashpoint Red Sea port of Hodeida killed at least 21 civilians, including children, the...
Pakistan committed to Chemical Weapons Convention, UN told
Pakistan called for effectively addressing the threat of chemical and biological weapons use by non-state actors while reaffirming its commitment to the Chemical Weapons...
Azad Kashmir marks 71st Founding Day
MIRPUR: A special ceremony in connection with the 71st founding anniversary of Azad (free) government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir was held here...
Pakistan calls for diplomatic solution of Palestine issue
NEW YORK: At the United Nations, Pakistan has called for pursuing diplomatic solutions to the violence-ravaged parts of the Middle East.
Speaking in a debate on the Middle...
Resolution of Kashmir dispute key to UN’s decolonisation agenda: Maleeha
ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has said that peaceful resolution of Kashmir dispute is vital to complete the United Nations’...
Two Koreas, UN Command hold first talks on disarming border
SEOUL: North Korea, South Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC) held their first three-way talks on Tuesday to discuss demilitarising the border as...
Pakistan calls for protection of children in conflict areas: Maleeha Lodhi
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s permanent representative to United Nations Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi has said that children living in the conflict area and under foreign occupation should...
UN says 833 children released by Nigeria militia group
GENEVA: A militia group fighting against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria has released 833 children from its own ranks, some...
