In a nine-page judgment authored by Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, the court highlighted the prolonged and often inhumane conditions faced by death row inmates, noting that many prisoners remain in death cells for years, sometimes even decades, due to delays in the judicial process and subsequent execution of sentences. The ruling came during the hearing […]
In response to media queries regarding the statement made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on June 3, the Foreign Office Spokesperson in a press statement said that the Kashmir dispute has been on the agenda of the UN Security Council for over seven decades. The relevant Security Council resolutions stipulate that the final […]
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 […]
