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The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians and an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians status to a nonmember observer state at the UN was approved by a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions, in the 193-member world body. […]
International support is building for a Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition Thursday, a historic vote that is likely to pass easily. A growing list of European countries – including France, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland, pledging to back Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s request to go from observer entity to non-member observer state. […]
Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by Taliban, has been awarded by World Peace and Prosperity Foundation Chairman Prince Ali Khan for her bravery and commitment to education for girls in adverse conditions in Swat, Pakistan. She, who became the face of Pakistan’s struggle against the Taliban, is being treated at a […]
Declaring Israel a terrorist state for attacks on Gaza, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has underlined hostility for his former ally since relations between them collapsed in 2010. After nearly a week of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, the Turkish premier uttered server comments about Israel. […]
Condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif termed them barbaric and urged the Pakistani government to take up the matter. The former two-time premier while speaking to the media said, “I’m glad that not only Islamic countries but non-Islamic countries also spoke against the issue.” He also urged […]
United Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire as Israel’s pounding of Gaza enters its sixth day, killing 31 in the last 24 hours. Ban Ki-moon said he was going to Cairo to join talks about a possible truce as the recent raids on Gaza Strip had killed as many […]
The United Nations (UN) is observing November 10 (Saturday) as Malala Day, honoring the courage of 15-year-old education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by Taliban when she was in way home from school. In the meantime, over million people have signed global petitions calling for Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai […]
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has imposed sanctions against the Pakistan-based Haqqani Network which is accused of carrying out a number of deadly attacks in the region, particularly in Afghanistan. The UN committee that oversees sanctions against the Taliban imposed global sanctions on the fierce militant group considered a major threat to the […]
In quite an eye-opening development, Pakistan’s civil society organizations started taking note of enforced disappearances long before anyone outside the country did. The Human Rights Commission Pakistan (HRCP) has prepared half a dozen detailed reports about the issue in Balochistan. The Supreme Court of Pakistan after its restoration took up petitions filed by the relatives […]
Condemning the Taliban attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai and terming it un-Islamic, Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chief Sahabzada Fazal Karim on Tuesday asked the government to launch a decisive military offensive in North Waziristan against Taliban. Addressing hundreds of participants of a train march who arrived in Rawalpindi from Karachi, Sahabzada Fazal Karim said he […]
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Monday said h the government would cooperate with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan if he engages with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). While speaking to the media, the minister made it clear that the government didn’t prevent PTI from going to South Waziristan but, in fact, informed him of […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has urged the United Nations to make a law that bans hate speech which ignites the emotions of tens of millions of Muslims across the world. Addressing the Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) Conference, the premier made a demand to the UN s and other international organizations to devise a law in this […]
