Mumtaz Hussain

NEW YORK: Foreign Minister of Pakistan Jalil Abbas Jilani met the High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Miguel Moratinos on the margins of the 78th UNGA session in New York. They discussed in detail…

NEW YORK: Wworld leaders at UN General Assembly session to deliberate about key international peace and security issues. US President Joe Biden, as leader of the host country, will be the second speaker on Tuesday, the opening day of the…

CONNECTICUT (USA): An estimated $6 trillion mineral treasure trove of Pakistan is ripe for leading US firms to invest and reap dividends of a lucrative market of the region, said Pakistan’s top envoy to the United States. “Our focused…

NEW YORK: Pakistan's new consul general in New York Aamir Ahmad Attozai, soon after assuming office, vowed to resolve issues facing by the expat Pakistanis. He said a police electronic service center would soon start functioning to receive…

NEW YORK: The United States of America has taken up human rights violations for over two dozen times with the authorities in Islamabad in the recent past, it emerged at a webinar today. The webinar was organized on US-Pakistan relation in…

UNITED NATIONS: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Tali­ban Pakistan (TTP) and other gro­ups affiliated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda are providing Nato-calibre weapons to the militant Islamic State (IS) gro­up, acc­ording to a UN report discussed at a…

WASHINGTON: The United States said on Wednesday it was watching with concern the prospect of election violence in Pakistan, which is set for polls from which former prime minister Imran Khan has been barred. “We’re obviously concerned…

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations spokesperson has reiterated the world body’s concerns over the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir, saying “the concerns we have expressed still stand.” The UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, made…

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Pakistani authorities to respect due process and the rule of law in proceedings against former Prime Minister Imran Khan. "The secretary-general takes note of the ongoing…

NEW YORK: With Pakistan’s Independence Day around the corner, a road in New York City’s Queens borough was named after Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the country’s national poet who visualized and then worked for a separate homeland for Muslims of…