ISLAMABAD:(PNP) Muslim Conference’s nominated candidate for Poonch Constituency-III in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Irfan Ashraf, has alleged that the political environment in Rawalakot is being deliberately destabilized and that certain elements are using the platform of the Awami Action Committee for political purposes. Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club Islamabad…
Prominent Pakistani politician, intellectual and analyst Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, in a significant development for intercontinental Eurasian political cooperation, has been unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the Asia-Europe Political Forum (AEPF). The decision came at the Forum’s annual conference held in Budapest, Hungary — a gathering that drew parliamentarians, political leaders and think-tank representatives…
The President of Pakistan, under Article 45, have legal powers to pardon former Prime Minister Imran Khan
This in effect abolishes the monitoring of UN sanctions against the country, more commonly known as North Korea, blocking the extension of the panel for another year. Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the sanctions regime adopted with the intention of preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, was losing its relevance and also “to a great extent, detached…
“I endured the artillery’s roar, the fire in the nursery, yet I stand tall,” read the lyrics. “I weathered the paralyzing fear under the covers, felt everyone turn their backs, yet I stand tall.”When he wrote the song in October, shortly after the war began, Marwán, whose father grew up in UNRWA tents in the…
With the civil war between rival militaries now in its 200th day, children “continue to pay the highest price for a crisis not of their making – increasingly with their own lives”, said the agency in a statement. There are more children now displaced there than anywhere in the world, with three million fleeing the…
Imran Khan – Photo: File Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that his party has been put under the target of state oppression. In his statement, he said that fascism started on May 25 last year. The former prime minister said that during the Tehreek-e-Insaf government, PDM conducted 3 long marches, but the…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres – file photo United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says that freedom of the press is under attack in every corner of the world. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressed the World Press Freedom Day event in New York. He said that he condemns targeting journalists and spreading false…
Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Spokesperson and Law Adviser of the Sindh Government has said that one should not be under any illusion, know that the Mayor of Karachi will be Jayala because the people of Karachi have expressed confidence in the People’s Party. He was talking to the media after the MoU ceremony between the Italian…
The appeal comes in his message ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated annually on 3 May, in line with a 1993 UN General Assembly resolution. The focus this year is on the connection between press freedom and overall human rights. A global problem “Freedom of the press is the foundation of democracy and…
