President Dr. Arif Alvi on Saturday asked the religious scholars and media to spread awareness among the people about breastfeeding and population control. On the occasion of the World Population Day that is annually observed on July 11, the president has advised
President Dr Arif Alvi emphasized the need of imparting education to students keeping in view the modern-day requirements as well as the market demand. Addressing the convocation of the Virtual University in Islamabad, he said that the provision of education in line
The human rights office of the United Nations voiced concern that India’s new citizenship law is fundamentally discriminatory in nature by excluding Muslims and called for it to be reviewed. “We are concerned that India’s new Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 is fundamentally
Despite exceptional headway globally in fighting malaria in the last decade, the progress has slowed in recent years and critical targets will likely be missed, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO). “We’re seeing encouraging signs, but the
Ahead of a key climate conference in Madrid, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the devastating impact of global warming that threatens humanity is pushback from nature under assault. For many decades, the humans have been at war with the planet, and
The United Nations has called on world leaders to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 7.6 per cent every year for the next decade to meet most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris climate deal, or suffer the impacts of greater
UN secretary general’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development Queen Máxima, appreciating Islamabad’s efforts of prioritizing women access to finance and digitizing payments and procedures, stressed need for promotion of the use of technology in financial services while safeguarding privacy and
Pakistan’s permanent representative to United Nations in Geneva Ambassador Khalil Hashmi has been elected as president of the 11th session of the Commission on Trade and Development, an important platform to discuss key trade and development issues. The commission is one of
Overly expensive insulin could be a thing of the past and life-changing news for millions of diabetics under a plan launched by the World Health Organization to diversify production globally. Announcing the initiative in Geneva just ahead of the World Diabetes Day,
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stressed the need for strong multilateral institutions adapted to challenges of today and tomorrow that can make the UN more effective and agile in this troubled and fractured world. He was speaking at the Paris Peace
