Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the three-time elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, has played a critical role in attempting to ease hostilities and promote people-to-people contact between India and Pakistan. The history of India-Pakistan relations is fraught with wars, mistrust, and border tensions that have persisted since the traumatic partition of British India in 1947. Against…
Islamabad (Sabahuddin Qazi): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ten years ago on December 25, 2015, made global headlines by paying a surprise visit to Pakistan, a gesture that defied years of tension between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Landing in Lahore to wish his Pakistani counterpart, Mian Nawaz Sharif, a happy birthday and to attend a…
Islamabad (PNP Opinion): Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, a prominent Pakistani politician and minority leader, has penned an op-ed titled “Modi-Sharif peace accord?” published in the widely-circulated Urdu-language daily Jang newspaper on May 01, 2025 and English daily The News on May 03, 2025. The article is written in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in…
Karachi (PNP): Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, has termed the recent Pakistan-India border tensions as a serious challenge to peace in the region. In a video message addressed to people of Pakistan and India, prominent Hindu parliamentary leader proposed a bilateral peace agreement between the Prime Ministers of both neighboring…
The IndoPak border remains one of the most volatile flashpoints in global geopolitics. In April 2025, tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors flared anew following a brutal militant attack in the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir. With 28 civilians killed and over 20 injured in the tourist hotspot of Pahalgam, the incident has sparked…
ISLAMABAD: (Hina Zafar) Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace.
Some missions were accomplished. Others continue today. Since the Organization’s inception at the end of the Second World War, UN Member States have scrambled to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” by deploying their collective efforts to prevent the kind of utter devastation that global conflict brought to Europe, Africa, Asia and beyond,…
Their tireless efforts span from monitoring ceasefire agreements to protecting civilians, rebuilding key infrastructure and facilitating elections to help countries and communities transition from war to peace. Peacekeepers can be soldiers, police officers, engineers, doctors, veterinarians, human rights officers, justice and corrections officers, radio producers, environmental scientists and surveillance experts. When we think about keeping…
Addressing ambassadors at the Council’s open debate on the role of women and youth, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo highlighted the significant challenges and impacts faced by women. “Women bear the brunt of the global rollback of human rights,” she stated. She referenced her recent visit to Afghanistan, where women are systematically denied basic rights, including…
“Now is the time to unleash Africa’s peace power,” he said, opening a debate on its critical role in addressing global security and development challenges, convened by Mozambique, the Council president for May. Calling Africa “an important voice for the global good”, he cited examples of how the continent has shown “unity and solidarity in…
