Pakistan will qualify for the round of 12 if they finish in the first two teams in the group. Pakistan volleyball team has left for Hangzhou from Islamabad to show good performance in Asian Games. The players and officials are hopeful for a good performance in the event. The volleyball event in the Asian Games…
Mushtall Ahmed is now tied for first place, having shot a three-under-par 69 in the second round. Ahmed Baig could not retain the number one position on the second day of the 27th Chief of Naval Staff Golf Championship, he was joint first on the first day with Motsal Ahmed. On the second day of…
Karachi: The Provincial Caretaker Cabinet approved the launch of a comprehensive operation against robbers, drug mafia, street criminals. A meeting was held in the Chief Minister House under the chairmanship of Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (Rtd) Maqbool Baqer, in which the Provincial Caretaker Cabinet along with the Army and Rangers decided to wipe out robbers,…
Memorial photo of deceased Maryam Karachi: A 7-year-old girl, Maryam Saqib, was killed by firing in Sakhi Hasan Bafarzon area. The Timuriya police recorded the statement of Maryam’s father Saqib, an eyewitness to the incident. SSP Central Faisal Abdullah said that Saqib was going to drop his daughter to school in the car, when a…
Addressing the Security Council on Thursday, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP), Cindy McCain, highlighted the growing need for humanitarian aid worldwide against a backdrop of reduced funding.
Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city of Derna to burst, pushing entire neighbourhoods into the sea. “The situation is quite terrible as you can imagine”, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s Libya Representative, Michele Servadei, told UN News. ‘Drop in the ocean’ “As…
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) official Patron of the Oceans, Mr. Pugh explained that he’d undertaken the marathon swim ending at the tip of Manhattan, to emphasise the urgent need to protect the world’s waterways ahead of the UN’s landmark High Seas Treaty and Climate Ambition Summit next week. Sporting his UNEP swim cap, Mr. Pugh…
“This is a moment of solidarity for our global village at our global Town Hall – the United Nations,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. Halftime Talks During high-level week of the General Assembly, the SDG Pavilion will host a series of Halftime Talks. The UN Office for Partnerships is working with Project Everyone, a not-for-profit…
Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested and forced into a van by Iran’s so called “morality police” in the capital Tehran on 13 September last year. Authorities alleged she was not in conformity with the country’s strict laws on mandatory veiling. She died on 16 September reportedly after suffering a heart attack. Her family, however,…
Achieving peace is neither automatic nor a vision, Mr. Guterres said in a video message to a special event on youth for peace. “Peace is the result of action. Let us commit to build, drive and sustain peace for all,” he emphasized. The event showcased the actions and commitments of young people – in their…
