The fate of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey hangs in the balance amid fears that they may become pawns in the country’s changing politics. Syrian refugees have become central in the political debate in Turkey ahead of elections next year. Calls to repatriate them to war-torn Syria used to be the cause of fringe, […]
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says that the Financial Action Task Force; (FATF) has no justification to keep Pakistan on its grey list. Also, he says that there is no justification to keep Pakistan on the grey list. Out of the 27 points given by FATF action plan; 26 have been complete & work is […]
Pakistan, on June 5 host’s this year of the United Nations annual World Environment Day. Also, Pakistan is among the countries that worst affected by climate change. It regularly has hit by devastating floods in recent years; meanwhile, that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed swathes of agricultural land. The world’s richest countries […]
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi; has said that Pakistan has joined hands with Palestine, Sudan and Turkey. Certainly this collaboration is to take a united stanceat the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine. The foreign minister is to arrive in New York along with his counterparts from Turkey.Further followed by two other countries to participate […]
Pakistan: The United Nations has recognized the steps taken by the Pakistani government against terrorism in its latest report; adding that the banned Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was responsible for over 100 ‘cross-border’ attacks within three months last year. The 27th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, which has presented to the […]
Nearly 13 percent of children between the ages of two and five years; suffered from some form of functional disability. The study revealed the National Nutrition Survey 2018 launched on Tuesday. It further pointed out that one in every eight adolescent girls and one in every five adolescent boys were underweight. Over half of the […]
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the United Nations‘ World Food Programme as the recipient of its coveted Peace Prize on Friday for its “efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war”. “For its effort to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting […]
The global death toll from COVID-19 has crossed one million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that number is probably an underestimate and the actual toll is likely to be much higher. Some 1,000,555 people across the world have now died from the virus, data from JHU showed […]
Earlier on Saturday, India had responded to the prime minister’s UNGA address saying “full of lies, misinformation and warmongering”. Pakistan on Saturday stated at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that “Kashmir is not a part of India, it never was and it never will be”. In a rebuttal to the Indian statement, Pakistan’s representative […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing the 75th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via video link and is set to raise the issue of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on the international forum. PM shed light on the following issues: ✔ Global peace ✔ Repatriation of stolen funds ✔ Islamophobia ✔ Riyaasat-e-Medina ✔ Poverty […]