Pakistan has an enviable record of contribution towards global security, peace and stability under the auspices of United Nations. Since 1960, Pakistan has been actively involved in most of the UN peacekeeping missions and today stands at the top with 10,175 troops and observers serving the ongoing missions. So far Pakistan has participated in 41 [...]
Recently two eye-catching events took place at the United Nations, in a quick succession; unfortunately both escaped desired focus. First, Ban-Ki-Moon was approved for the second five year term. He took the oath of office, placing his hand on the original UN Charter, promising to discharge his functions in the interests of the entire UN [...]
We would have thought that the money has spent rightly had we got the answer to the question that where had the head-scarf (duppatta) and the purse of Benazir Bhutto vanished after she was assassinated. The UN report is a farce, we all know and we are once again at square zero.
This is a common [...]
The recently concluded Nuclear Security Summit has had the world attention riveted at Washington where 47 nations, represented by top echelon of leadership, gathered to craft an agreement that would keep the nuclear technology safe from the reach of terrorists. This was the largest assembly of world leaders hosted by an American President since the [...]
About 4,500 Indian troops are presently posted in Congo under the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. In the past Indian Army personnel were involved in activities like gold smuggling, sexual abuse and other acts of misconduct, which prompted the Congolese government to write to the UN to stop sending replacements of Indian troops. Indian peacekeepers [...]
Women’s Day is for the “Begums” of elite and for the NGOs to publish glossy reports, hold lavish seminars and bark lofty speeches in the plush halls of 5-star hotels and afterwards going for sumptuous meals. These non-government organizations claim to work for [...]
Well enough of the reconciliation in Balochistan. If that’s the way reconciliation is going to work then we are better off than that. The abduction of UN official John Solecki has made it clear that the smiling and flashing reconciliation bids of Asif Ali Zardari have failed miserably and there is nothing like common grounds [...]
Establishment of my country, named Pakistan for which our great leaders had been striving, is an established fact for the last 60 years. Indisputably the motivating force behind creation of Pakistan was to carry out an ideological state for the Muslims where they could fashion their lives according to dictates of Islam and minorities could [...]
When the government will wake up? This is the most appropriate time for them to stir-up as a US national and provincial head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has been kidnapped. Pakistanis die, get kidnapped and looted and harrassed routinely in the Balochistan, but that is not the big deal [...]
