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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 08 (APP): Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi, who is on a visit to New York, called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at UN headquarters on Friday. During the meeting, they discussed matters related to the engagement of Pakistan police personnel […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (APP):The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, released a new report on Thursday that highlights alarming levels of child food poverty in many parts of the world due to inequity, conflict, and climate crises. The report warned that millions of children under five […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 02 (APP): The World Health Organization’s member countries have approved a series of steps to improve global preparedness for and response to pandemics like COVID-19, the Geneva-based UN agency said on Sunday. Nations agreed to amend the International Health Regulations, which were […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (APP): Pakistan, speaking in the UN General Assembly on behalf of Islamic countries Thursday, paid tributes to the leadership of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, especially his contribution to OIC’s “central cause” of restoring Palestinian’s rights and protecting the sanctity […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (APP): With Pakistan supporting, the UN General Assembly Thursday adopted a resolution designating 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, in which at least 8,372 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serbs, […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (APP): : Underscoring the need for upholding protection of civilians caught in conflict, Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to take steps to end foreign occupation and promote the right to self-determination for the Kashmiri and Palestinian people. “It […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (APP):: Pakistani peacekeepers serving the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have been honoured with UN medals for their exceptional service in protecting some 300,000 residents of Bentiu, the capital of the country’s Unity state, from catastrophic floods, according to […]

NEW YORK, May 17 (APP):Pakistan, which faces significant economic challenges, is expected to have “modest economic growth”, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected to expand by 2 per cent in 2024, according to a major United Nations report. Noting that Pakistan had entered into […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (APP): Several machines, trucks and tank carriers of the Pakistani ‘Blue Helmets’, who formed the bulk of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), began rolling out on Tuesday from the town of Baraka towards Uvira, […]