Pakistan to host UN’s World Environment Day 2021
ISLAMABAD - 22 February2021 – Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam announced on Monday that Pakistan would host globally celebrated the World Environment Day…
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UN experts welcome death penalty ban for individuals with mental health conditions
The United Nations has released a statement welcoming the recent landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of Pakistan restricting the use of the death penalty on severely mentally ill…
COVID-19 vaccination ‘wildly uneven and unfair’: UN chief
UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the goal of providing vaccines to all as “the biggest moral test before the global community”, underlining that everyone, everywhere must be…
UN adopts Pakistan-sponsored resolution on religious sites
The United Nations on Thursday adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution calling for the protection of religious sites.
The resolution was co-sponsored by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other…
Pakistan slams India for denying UN vehicle attack
Pakistan has categorically rejected the denial by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to accept responsibility for targeting the observers of United Nations Military Observers Group in…
Pakistan lodges protest with India over deliberate targeting of UN vehicle
ISLAMABAD - The Indian Chargé d'Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office on Saturday to register Pakistan’s strong protest at the deliberate targeting of Observers belonging to the…
At UN, Pakistan spotlights struggle of Kashmiris, Palestinians for self-determination
Pakistan highlighted the struggle of peoples in occupied Palestine and Kashmir for their right of self-determination at an event organized by Russia, South Africa and Vietnam on Friday…
Indian army target UN vehicles carrying military observers: ISPR
ISLAMABAD: The Indian Army resorted to unprovoked fire in Chirikot Sector of Line of Contro, deliberately targeting a United Nations vehicle with 2 Military Observers on board.
The UN…
Pakistan rejects India’s attempt to deny responsibility for disinfo campaign
The Foreign Office rejected India’s attempt to deny responsibility for the elaborate and reprehensible global disinformation campaign against Pakistan exposed by EU DisinfoLab.
"The…
Pakistan urges world to hold India accountable for crimes against Kashmiris in IOK
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan joins the international community in observing the International Human Rights Day, marked each year to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human…
Pakistan seeks tough global action to defeat fascist ideologies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan called for “concerted” global action to defeat resurging fascist ideologies at a solemn meeting of the UN General Assembly held on Tuesday to commemorate victims of the…
Pakistan seeks UN’s role to dismantle Indian terrorist infrastructure
The Foreign Office categorically rejected the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ denial of the irrefutable evidence provided by Pakistan on Indian state sponsorship of terrorism.
Fully…
Saudi Arabia fails in bid to join UN rights council
Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday as China and Russia were elected to three-year terms.
Human rights groups hailed the…
Pakistan re-elected to UN rights council with overwhelming majority
Pakistan has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) with an overwhelming majority securing 169 votes in the 193-member UN General Assembly. Elections were held in…
One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds, according to first ever joint UN estimates
Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the…