Lahore: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz has said that violence against women, children, minorities and rape is the government’s red line. A briefing was given to Chief Minister Punjab on the law and order situation in the province on behalf of the top officials. While presiding over the meeting, he took strict notice of the…
A drunken man stabbed his 40-year-old wife to death while injuring her daughter in Walton, Islamnagar, the capital of Punjab. According to the details, a drunken husband killed his 40-year-old wife by stabbing her 40-year-old wife with knives in Walton area of Factory Area, Islamnagar, while the brutal person also injured a fourteen-year-old girl. The…
My husband Syed Fakhra Alam, widow died due to KMC’s incompetence and not draining rain water (Photo: Express) Karachi: The widow of a man who drowned in an open drain during the recent rains has filed a claim against the KMC for damages of Rs. In the court of Senior Civil Judge in Karachi City…
Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents at the regular press briefing in New York, that during the clashes, two rockets landed close to the UN peacekeeping base in Kimoka, about four kilometres northwest of Sake town, in North Kivu. No casualties on the UN side were reported, he said. The UN mission, MONUSCO, “remains deeply concerned by…
The Conference, which was established with the primary goal of fostering cooperation for mutual disarmament, has faced significant challenges in recent times. “Something looks wrong if a disarmament conference leads to no meaningful disarmament, year after year,” Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Humanity needs the Conference on Disarmament to work successfully. The paralysis and deadlock that…
Writing on the social media platform X, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that “aid was supposed to increase not decrease” to meet the huge needs of Gaza’s two million people, who are living in desperate conditions. He listed some of the obstacles to aid delivery, including lack of political will, the regular closing of the two…
More than 7,000 delegates from 182 countries are scheduled to take part in the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) which runs through Friday. Delegates are convening in the Kenyan capital as climate change intensifies, a million species face the risk of extinction, and pollution remains among the world’s leading causes of…
Its new session beginning on Monday is the longest ever, running until April, and promises a packed agenda, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, the situation of human rights defenders worldwide and more than 50 national human rights records under scrutiny. But, what does the Human Rights Council do and why does its work…
Islamabad: The High Court ordered that V Lager Asad not to be harassed and directed to conduct an investigation involving the FIA inquiry. Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Aamir Farooq heard the petition filed by V Lager Asad against the FIA notice on the charge of running a propaganda campaign against the Chief Justice…
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva at the start of its first high-level session of the year, the UN chief insisted that any further extension of Israel’s ground operation in the south of Gaza “would not only be terrifying for more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there; it would put the final nail…
