Former United Nations' Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide, Juan E Mendez has termed the Muslim genocide call in India as deeply disturbing and dangerous. During an exclusive interview with AL Jazeera, he said the UN Security Council should step in to protect Indian minorities. He said ...

RAWALPINDI – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that Indian provocations particularly recent targeting of United Nations Military Observer Group India Pakistan (UNMOGIP) vehicles are threat to regional peace and stability. According to ISPR, COAS visited forward troops ...

KABUL: Al-Qaeda is still “heavily embedded” within the Taliban in Afghanistan, in spite of a historic US-Taliban agreement earlier this year, a senior United Nations official has told the BBC. Earlier this year, the US signed an agreement with the Taliban committing to withdrawing all ...

 ISLAMABAD-UNITED NATIONS, The climate emergency generated by global warming "is a danger to peace" as climate change exacerbates existing risks of conflict "and creates new ones," a top United Nations official has said.Speaking in the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Miroslav Jenca, ...

UNITED NATIONS: After four decades of conflict and insecurity, Afghanistan needs more support than ever to tackle its challenges, the United Nations humanitarian and refugee chiefs said Monday after a joint two-day visit to the country. The United Nations humanitarian affairs chief, Mark Lowcock, ...

ISLAMABAD - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi and UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock met with Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday in Islamabad. The two UN officials expressed their gratitude to the people and ...

UNITED NATIONS - Congratulating Imran Khan on his election as Prime Minister of Pakistan, the United Nations said Friday it was looking forward to working with him. “We congratulate the Prime Minister and look forward to working with him,” a spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has rejected Indian allegations against its report on the human rights abuses by Indian security forces in Kashmir, saying the campaign against it was an attempt to divert the focus away from the serious situation ...

UNITED NATIONS: UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock says situation in Syrian Idlib is alarming with airstrikes, clashes between armed groups, overcrowding and severely stretched basic services.  He told the Security Council that the Syrian government should allow the delivery of aid ...

United Nations says it is impossible to send Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh safely back to Myanmar because it appears that widespread and systematic violence against them inside Myanmar. In a statement U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour said today that during a ...