The price of sugar per kg remained at Rs 152

PNP DeskAugust 21, 2023September 15, 202402 mins

An increase of 1500 rupees in the price of gold per tola in the country today According to All Pakistan Gems and Jewelers Association, after this increase, the price of gold per tola in the country is 2 lakh 26 thousand 800 rupees. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘836181349842357’); fbq(‘track’,…

Anti-Terrorism Court; Iman Mazari and Ali Wazir handed over to police on physical remand

PNP DeskAugust 21, 2023September 15, 202406 mins

Islamabad: The Anti-Terrorism Court approved the 3-day physical remand of Iman Mazari and Ali Wazir and ordered to produce the accused on August 24. Former federal minister Shireen Mazari’s daughter Iman Mazari and leader of Pashtun Protection Movement Ali Wazir were presented in the court of Anti-Terrorism Court judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain, where Iman Mazari’s…

Champion woman boxer knocks out hate in Central America

PNP DeskAugust 20, 2023September 15, 202407 mins

“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. “Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I as a woman,” she says….

Bridging troubled waters amid deluge, drought in the US

PNP DeskAugust 20, 2023September 15, 2024010 mins

A global approach to tackle the ongoing water crisis is needed as vulnerable communities in the United States face historic deluge and drought – issues very much in the spotlight at the forthcoming UN-supported World Water Week. Traditional totems tower over the coastal village of Taholah in Washington state, home to the Quinault Indian Nation, an…

Guterres condemns assault against UN peacekeepers in Cyprus

PNP DeskAugust 19, 2023September 15, 202403 mins

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement issued on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres that several members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had been injured while UN vehicles had also been damaged inside the buffer zone that divides the Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. Security Council mandate Mr. Dujarric said…

First Person: Iraqis ‘not abandoned’ after 2003 attack on UN Baghdad

PNP DeskAugust 19, 2023September 15, 202407 mins

The then New York-based Elpida Rouka had accompanied the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme on a mission to Baghdad and survived the deadly explosion which killed 22 of her UN colleagues. The 19 August attack is commemorated annually by World Humanitarian Day. “A young 25-year-old barely two years into the UN at…

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

PNP DeskAugust 19, 2023September 15, 202408 mins

Designing ways to fight back against falsehoods that can trigger tensions, violence, or even death, the UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “It has become clear that business as usual is not an option,” UN…

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UN and partners providing aid for vulnerable across Ethiopia as 1.2 million children suffer acute malnutrition

PNP DeskAugust 18, 2023September 15, 202404 mins

The country was deeply impacted by a brutal conflict which began in 2020 across the north between Ethiopian Government forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), although a peace deal between the sides was brokered by the African Union, ending the fighting last November. Briefing journalists at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday,…

Afghans are ‘out of options’ and desperately need realistic alternatives to poppy cultivation

PNP DeskAugust 18, 2023September 15, 2024020 mins

The restrictions placed by the Taliban de facto authorities on women and girl’s education and employment have shattered the dreams of many of the women here, but their spirits remain unbroken. Taliban’s Poppy Ban: Can It Work? The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), through its implementing partner, the Danish Committee for Aid…

DR Congo: Children facing worst cholera outbreak in six years

PNP DeskAugust 18, 2023September 15, 202403 mins

Across the country, there have been at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths in the first seven months of 2023 – many of them children. The worst affected province, North Kivu, has seen more than 21,400 confirmed or suspected cases, including more than 8,000 children under five, according to the Ministry…

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The price of sugar per kg remained at Rs 152

Anti-Terrorism Court; Iman Mazari and Ali Wazir handed over to police on physical remand

Champion woman boxer knocks out hate in Central America

Bridging troubled waters amid deluge, drought in the US

Guterres condemns assault against UN peacekeepers in Cyprus

First Person: Iraqis ‘not abandoned’ after 2003 attack on UN Baghdad

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

UN and partners providing aid for vulnerable across Ethiopia as 1.2 million children suffer acute malnutrition

Afghans are ‘out of options’ and desperately need realistic alternatives to poppy cultivation

DR Congo: Children facing worst cholera outbreak in six years