Karachi: The Muslim League (N) expressed its lack of confidence in the Election Commissioner Sindh and announced to go to court against the delimitation of constituencies. This was announced by Muslim League (N) Sindh president Bashir Memon, league leaders Khel Das Kohistani, Nihal Hashmi, Qadir Bakhsh Kalmati and Salman Khan while holding a press conference…
Islamabad: The Judicial Commission recommended the appointment of Justice Aqeel Ahmad Abbasi as the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court. A meeting of the Judicial Commission was held under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa, in which the issue of permanent appointment of Chief Justice Sindh High Court was considered. The Judicial Commission…
Photo: File Former captain Salman Butt’s batting consultancy case of the Afghanistan cricket team has gone sour. Salman Butt was offered by Afghanistan a day before the announcement by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). However, Salman Butt’s affair with the Afghanistan Board stopped after he was appointed as a consultant to the selection committee. In…
Christian Ritscher, head of the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh – otherwise known as the Islamic State group or ISIL – outlined to ambassadors in the Security Council on Monday a comprehensive assessment detailing heinous crimes of sexual violence perpetrated by ISIL fighters during their reign. The report was…
Mr. Guterres is extremely alarmed by the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas this past Friday, including rocket fire towards Israel from Gaza and Israel’s renewed ground operations and intensified airstrikes, increasingly in the south of the enclave. “The UN continues to appeal to Israeli Forces to avoid further action that would exacerbate the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza…
Rising waters caused by torrential downpours have affected more than 2.4 million in the east African nation, while UN aid teams are increasingly concerned about the spread of waterborne diseases, said aid coordination office, OCHA. Suspected cases of cholera have already been reported and humanitarians have highlighted how much of a threat this poses to…
This year’s UN climate conference, underway in the United Arab Emirates’ largest city, Dubai, opened its second full week hearing a diverse cross-section of women leaders and activists raise their voices to call for ending existing gender gaps and mitigating the worsening impacts of climate change on women and girls. Prevailing gender norms, existing inequalities…
They are taking part in the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial, which opens in the capital, Accra, on Tuesday. The two-day meeting aims to secure vital political support and concrete commitments to strengthen UN Peacekeeping efforts to meet current and future challenges and needs, in line with ongoing reform under the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) framework…
The latest update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirmed rising casualties and devastation amid “heavy Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea”. “From the afternoon of (Saturday) 2 December to the afternoon of (Sunday) 3 December, at least 316 people were killed and at least another 664 injured in Gaza,” OCHA’s situation update…
Among them is young Senegalese singer and rapper Oumy Gueye, who goes by OMG and was triggered to embrace climate action when her grandparents’ home in Bargny east of the Senegalese capital Dakar was destroyed by rising seas. She has been collaborating with UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA to advocate for humanitarian causes in the Sahel…
