New York, The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Maria Fernanda Espinosa, will visit Pakistan from January 18 to 22, her spokesperson said. According to spokesperson Monica Grayley, this will be Espinosa’s first official visit to the Asia Pacific since she took office in September. During her five-day visit,[Read More…]
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Indian, Pakistani foreign ministers to meet in New York, but does it have any purpose?
Now that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of UN General Assembly in New York in the last week of this month, the moot question is what purpose the meeting will hold? Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar has already[Read More…]
Disabled Delhi artist asks UN for digital ‘revolution of inclusion’
United Nations: A young disabled artist from Delhi has asked UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Miroslav Lajcak to create a “revolution of inclusion” for the deaf by using the advances in digital technology. Lajcak assured Apoorv Om that he would do his best for promoting the inclusiveness of the disabled in[Read More…]
India calls Pakistan a ‘terrorist state,’ attracts support from Balochistan
On Thursday, India called Pakistan a “terrorist state ” and accused it of carrying out “war crimes” against Indians through its “long-standing policy” of sponsoring terrorism. This response came hours after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif racked up Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly session. He referred to the “killing of innocent Kashmiri[Read More…]
Countries engaged in ‘proxy wars’ must end them, says Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in “proxy wars” to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the “members of extremism will continue to burn” causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas. In his eighth and final address to[Read More…]
UN General Assembly: Terrorism biggest threat to human rights, says India
In wake of the cross-border terror attack from Pakistan on an Indian army base in Jammu and Kashmir that left 18 Indian soldiers dead, India on Tuesday used the biggest international forum to say that terrorism was the biggest threat to human rights. “Mr. President, I do want to stress[Read More…]
“Iss Indian ko yaha se Nikalo,” Indian journalist ousted from Pakistan briefing in New York
As tension simmers between India and Pakistan after the Uri attack, an NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York. As reported by NDTV, the journalist Namrata Brar was asked to leave the room at the Roosevelt Hotel where[Read More…]