ISLAMABAD (Sabahuddin Qazi) – President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari delivered a compelling and strategically charged address to the joint session of Pakistan’s Parliament, marking the beginning of the 9th parliamentary year. This address, delivered amidst heightened regional tensions and security concerns, combined constitutional affirmation, national resolve, and diplomatic messaging in a broad narrative aimed…
Ambassador of Germany to Pakistan heckled and booed by pro-Palestine protesters at the human rights conference At the human rights conference in Lahore, pro-Palestinian youths obstructed the German ambassador’s speech and raised slogans in support of the people of Gaza. The 5th Asma Jahangir Conference has started in a local hotel in Lahore, in which…
Confirming the order from the de facto authorities, who control the capital Sana’a along with many other areas of the war-torn country, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters that the demand ran counter to the legal conditions under which UN and other NGOs operate. Yemen descended into all out conflict in 2015 with Houthi rebels…
Answer: 269 minutes “Although we have been given the reputation of speaking at great length, the Assembly need not worry,” Fidel Castro of Cuba said at the outset. “We shall do our best to be brief.” While the General Assembly requests that delegates limit their addresses to 15 minutes, on 26 September 1960, he remained at…
Lahore: Former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi had an informal conversation with the journalists in the courtroom, in which he said that the press conference should not be held now. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf President Chaudhry Pervez Elahi further said that Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif are responsible for today’s inflation. Both brothers took loans from…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres was delivering his message marking the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief and began by reiterating that freedom of belief is “an inalienable human right”. “Yet, around the world, people and communities, particularly minorities, face intolerance, discrimination and threats – to their places of…
Thanks to Twitter Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the joint session of the Congress, but six members of US President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party severely criticized the Indian Prime Minister and announced a boycott of his speech. A day before the Indian Prime Minister’s speech to the joint session of the Congress, among those…
Mr. Kőrösi was speaking at an event to commemorate the 2nd International Day for Countering Hate Speech, which is officially observed on 18 June. “It would be my wish that we would not have to observe this day. It would be my wish that hate speech were a thing of the past,” he said. Rising violence Hate speech is most often…
Hate speech reinforces discrimination and stigma and is most often aimed at women, refugees and migrants, and minorities. If left unchecked, it can even harm peace and development, as it lays the ground for conflicts and tensions, wide scale human rights violations. To turn back the rising tide of hate, the United Nations is marking…
Social media’s role in crushing hate speech From COVID-19 to climate change, hateful exchanges among those with opposing views is a growing concern, said Latifa Akharbach, president of the High Authority of Audiovisual Communication (HACA) in Morocco. The international community’s “failure” in managing and regulating migration “fuels the sponsors of hate speech” and helps them…
