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Afghan Returnee Numbers This Year Top 276,000 – UN Refugee Agency
The United Nations refugee agency said today that some 276,700 Afghans returned to their homeland this year through its voluntary repatriation programme, 99 per cent of them coming from neighbouring Pakistan. The remaining 1 per cent of returnees came from Iran and other countries, Ewen MacLeod, Acting Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [...]
Continue reading...UN rushes Aid to Survivors of deadly EarthQuake in Pakistan
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The United Nations is rushing urgently-needed relief supplies to survivors of the deadly earthquake that struck south-western Pakistan earlier this week and the aftershocks that have followed. According to the South Asian nation’s Government, 150 people have died and 250 others injured. Some 3,000 people have been displaced and 15,000 houses made of mud or wood [...]
Continue reading...Security Situation in Afghanistan “Markedly” worse: UN Secretary General
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a change of pace and direction in Afghanistan, where the worsening security situation is hampering the efforts of the Government, the United Nations and international partners to rebuild the strife-torn nation. “Despite the enhanced capabilities of both the Afghan National Army and the international forces, the security [...]
Continue reading...Georgia: Ban considers Dispatching Fact-Finding Mission
Thursday, September 11, 2008
New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the possibility of dispatching a United Nations fact-finding mission to Georgia, where nearly 160,000 people were uprooted by the conflict that rocked the Caucasus nation last month. “I have been personally engaged on Georgia on a near-daily basis since the outset of this crisis and have made clear the [...]
Continue reading...Synthetic drugs are harmlful: UN Report
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa warned that the perception that synthetic drugs are harmless can be dangerous. “While users experience increased confidence, sociability and energy, they can quickly become dependent and suffer serious mental health problems or even brain damage. Paranoia, kidney failure, violence, internal bleeding are among the side effects.” According to a [...]
Continue reading...APHC urges world community to resolve K-issue
Friday, September 5, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Seeking world body’s pro-active role in resolving the thorny issue of Kashmir amicably, the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference lodged a sit-in protest in front of the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOGIP) office here. Holding banners and placards, the protesters chanted pro-freedom slogans demanding India quit Kashmir. Speaking on the occasion, Kashmiri [...]
Continue reading...APHC stages sit-in front of UN office
Thursday, September 4, 2008
ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Kashmir wing on Thursday staged sit-in in the front of UN office as a protest against economical blockade of Muslims in Kashmir Valley here. On this occasion Convener APHC Syed Yousuf Naseem submitted a memorandum in the name of Secretary General UN here. It was said that India always [...]
Continue reading...Khalilzad denies providing advice to Zardari
Thursday, September 4, 2008
UNITED NATIONS: US envoy to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad has denied press reports that he provided political advice to his long time friend Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s Presidential candidate and Benazir Bhutto’s widower. Khalilzad told reporters on his first day on the job following summer vacation in Europe that “I have not provided him with [...]
Continue reading...‘UN has not lived upto its responsibilities to resolve Kashmir’
Thursday, September 4, 2008
COLUMBUS: “Certainly, terrorists cannot compose the entire populations of the major towns, villages and city of Kashmir. And more than one million people cannot be instigated and provoked by a remote control. The presence of more than one million people at Martyr’s cemetery on August 22, 2008 reflects the true nature of the [...]
Continue reading...Void in U.S. strategy for Afghanistan:WSJ
Friday, August 29, 2008
WASHINGTON: Senior defense officials are debating how many troops they can send to Afghanistan and how soon they can do it to improve the deteriorating security situation there. But even as political pressure mounts to do more to stop the violence in that region, there is increasing fear in the Pentagon that sending in more [...]
Continue reading...India slams UN statement on IHK
Friday, August 29, 2008
NEW DELHI : India has slammed the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for its statement on Jammu and Kashmir, describing it as “uncalled for and irresponsible,” and asserting that India did not need any advice regarding protection of human rights of its citizens. “We regret that the office of [...]
Continue reading...Kashmiris for UN intervention
Monday, August 18, 2008
SIRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiri people gathered outside United Nations Military Observer in Srinagar to demand UN intervention in Jammu and Kashmir. The call of March towards UN mission was given on Monday by Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Shabbir Ahmed Shah. People from various areas of Jammu marched towards UN [...]
Continue reading...APHC seeks UN role to end sufferings of Kashmiris
Saturday, August 9, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Seeking world body’s role in bringing an end to the continuing violence and economic blockade against Kashmiris, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Pakistan Chapter has urged the United Nations to act now to mitigate the sufferings of Kashmiris. Popularity: 18% [?]
Continue reading...CERF Earmarks $4.6m in Relief for Afghanistan
Saturday, August 2, 2008
UNITED NATIONS: The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) of the United Nations has allocated $30 million to support UN’s relief work in seven countries including Afghanistan. The announcement in this regard was made by Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holms. The funds given by CERF were often the last source of hope for people facing [...]
Continue reading...Afghanistan: Violence against children rises: UN envoy
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
NEW YORK: A surge in recruitment of child soldiers, the maiming and killing of children, child detention and a serious humanitarian situation are all posing major threats to children in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict who recently returned from a five-day visit to the country. “The deteriorating security [...]
Continue reading...Oslo asks Delhi to abide by UN convention on missing persons in IHK
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Norwegian government has termed ‘alarming’ the recent information about new discoveries of unidentified graves in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite India being signatory to UN’s Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Responding to a question by parliamentary Leader and Chairman Christen Democratic party, Member Kashmir Parliamentary Committee Dagfinn Høybråten (KRF), the [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan playing vital role in UN HR system: Louise Arbour
Friday, June 27, 2008
ISLAMABAD: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour has said Pakistan is playing an important role in the UN human rights system. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Friday, she said Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) can made a positive contribution at this critical juncture in Pakistan’s transition [...]
Continue reading...Afghanistan must be cooperative with Pakistan: Ban Ki Moon
Friday, June 27, 2008
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon Friday urged Afghanistan to establish cooperative relationship with Pakistan in order to defuse tension on the Pak-Afghan border. Addressing a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York “It is … very important for both Pakistani and Afghanistan governments to fully cooperate to work for the common effort [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan to import 1000 MW electricity: Raja Ashraf
Friday, June 27, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will sign final agreement for import of 1000 MW electricity from Central Asian Republics during a meeting of the Inter Governmental Council (IGC) to be held in Islamabad next month. This was said by the Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf while talking to the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan, H.E. [...]
Continue reading...Torture in Any Form is Unacceptable: UNAMA
Friday, June 27, 2008
KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture by calling for all allegations of torture in Afghanistan to be properly investigated. UNAMAs chief human rights official, Norah Niland, calls for those responsible for such abuse to be brought to account. Niland says: Torture, without [...]
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