Category: International News

GENEVA, Jun 21 (APP): Ending systematic human rights violations in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is the first essential step towards the resolution of this long standing dispute and the UN Human Rights Council should demand this. This was stressed by Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Geneva, Ambassador Tehmina Janjua while speaking at… Continue reading HR violations in Occupied Kashmir highlighted at UN

WASHINGTON, June 21 (APP): A Muslim American of Pakistani descent says he had told about Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in Florida State, to FBI after listening to his radical thoughts in 2014, and criticized Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump for accusing Muslims for not sharing such information with government officials. Writing in the leading US newspaper,… Continue reading Pakistan-born American says he reported Florida Killer Omar Mateen to FBI

UNITED NATIONS, June 21 (APP): Concerned at the intensification of a crackdown on free expression and association, and the right to a nationality in Bahrain, the United Nations human rights office Tuesday urged the Government to ensure those rights are protected in line with the countrys obligations under international law and that civil society activists… Continue reading UN rights office concerned at Bahrain crackdown on human rights and opposition groups

UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (APP): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, has urged the new Myanmar Government to take concrete steps to end the systemic discrimination and ongoing human rights violations against minority communities, particularly the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, as he issued a new report on the situation… Continue reading UN urges action to address serious rights violations against Myanmar’s Rohingya muslims, others minorities

UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (APP): The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in the United Nations history, a tally greater than the combined populations of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to a new report… Continue reading Unprecedented 65 million people displaced by war, persecution in 2015 UN

NEW YORK, June 20 (APP): In a surprise move, Donald Trump has dropped embattled campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after months of internal tensions in his presidential campaign, as the presumptive Republican nominee struggled to pivot to the general election and his political operation became at times paralyzed by internal feuding. The dismissal of Lewandowski, a Trump loyalist… Continue reading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dumps campaign manager

UNITED NATIONS, June 19 (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, marking International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, said Sunday that the era of impunity for sexual violence as a tool of war was over, citing a host of landmark rulings against political and military leaders. In February, a national court in… Continue reading UN chief declares era of impunity ‘over’ for sexual violence in war

UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (APP): Pakistani peacekeepers serving the United Nations’ African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) have constructed a water station in Ardamata area of West Darfur, a water-scarce region of Sudan. The project, which was recently inaugurated, consist of three boreholes and six water storage facilities. The station will provide potable water to… Continue reading Water station built by Pakistani peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region goes into operation

UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (APP): Top UN officials on Friday called for stepped up efforts to combat desertification and restore land resources as nearly 800 million people are chronically undernourished as a direct consequence of land degradation, declining soil, fertility, unsustainable water use, drought and biodiversity loss. The desertification requires solutions to helping communities increase resilience to climate change,… Continue reading Top UN officials call for more efforts to fight desertification

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (APP): A senior United Nations human rights advisor has condemned Sunday’s attack at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people were killed and 53 injured, and expressed grave concern at the outpouring of hatred, homophobia and Islamophobia that followed the incident, which targeted the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. “At a… Continue reading Senior UN official gravely concerned by islamophobia that followed Orlando attack

UNITED NATIONS, June 17 (APP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday expressed serious concern over the recent clashes at the Torkham crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and appealed to the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue. Responding to a question at the regular noon briefing in New York, the secretary-generals spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said… Continue reading UN chief voices concern over border clashes between Pakistan, Afghanistan; calls for restraint

NEW YORK, June 17 (APP): More than 50 US diplomats signed an internal memo urging the Obama administration to approve military airstrikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported Friday. In the memo obtained by The New York Times, the diplomats say that American policy has been “overwhelmed” by… Continue reading Over 50 US diplomats urge Obama to hit Syria in internal memo