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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, standing alongside top officials in New York on Friday, underscored the essential need to bolster the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) across the Middle East amid continued Israeli attacks on its mandate, staff, premises and […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (APP): With Pakistan abstaining, the United Nations General Assembly Thursday voted to demand that Russia “urgently withdraw its military and other unauthorized personnel” from Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and return it to the full control of Ukrainian authorities. The 193-member […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (APP): A key UN report has placed Pakistan, whose current population is over 245 million, in the group of countries whose population is expected to increase through 2054 and could potentially peak in the second half of the century or later. […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (APP): The global crisis in education needs a “dramatic shift” to shape a more peaceful, sustainable, and just world, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. The UN chief was taking part in a Special Event on Transforming Education – part of […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (APP): The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday dedicated a decade, from 2025 to 2034, to combating increasing sand and dust storms—extreme weather conditions that pose serious environmental, economic, and human risks. Acting by consensus, the 193-member Assembly adopted the draft […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (APP): Escalating Israeli military attacks in northern Gaza have now forced an estimated 84,000 people to flee the eastern Gaza City in a matter of days, while also cutting off access to a key aid distribution hub, UN humanitarian officials Monday. […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 (APP): Pakistan hit back after India described occupied Jammu and Kashmir as its “integral and inalienable part” during a UN Security Council debate on children and armed conflict, saying New Delhi was deluding itself by “stubbornly holding on to this legal […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 24 (APP): Pakistan has called for keeping the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) financially viable so as to enable the 31-member intergovernmental body meet the reconstruction and other needs of the countries emerging from conflict. “The peacebuilding architecture plays a critical role in […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 22 (APP): A top Pakistani diplomat has told the UN Security Council that, despite promises, the Taliban government has not acted “decisively” to halt the cross-border terrorist attacks by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that have resulted in hundreds of civilian and military […]