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ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 : Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the airstrikes by Israeli occupation forces on the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 10 September 2024, which claimed the lives of 40 civilians. Executed in an area designated as a safe zone for […]

WASHINGTON, Sep 10: American Congressman Alexander Green was on Monday decorated with Sitara-i-Khidmat, a high Pakistani civil award, by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, for his pivotal role in boosting US-Pakistan diplomatic and economic relations and in combating Islamophobia. The award […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 : Pakistan has called for strengthening the role and capacity of UN peacekeeping in hotspots around the world, proposing that the Security Council should create effective political mechanisms to promote peace agreements among parties to the conflict. Speaking in the 15-member […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 09 : The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution, proposed by Bangladesh, to declare July 6 as “World Rural Development Day”, marking the culmination of the initiative taken by Bangladesh. The 193-member Assembly acted by adopting — without a […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 : The United Nations (UN) has called for a “full investigation” into the death of Aysenur Egzi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist who was killed recently in the West Bank amid Israeli war against Palestinian people. Ms. Eygi, who was born in […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 06: From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the United Nations agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza amid relentless Israeli attacks on the enclave, according […]

TEHRAN, Sep 3 : A stage performance called “Taaziyah” spellbound the audience, held at the ECO Cultural Institute (ECI) in Tehran to mark the combination of Arbaeen (the fortieth day of mourning for Aashura, i.e. Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) and the martyrdom holiday of […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 : The UN-led mass polio vaccination campaign entered its second day in central Gaza on Monday with pauses in Israeli attacks holding sufficiently for thousands more children to receive their dose, in addition to the 87,000 who received their first round […]