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UN concerned over widespread torture by police in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 14 (ANI): The United Nations Committee against Torture has expressed its serious concerns over the consistent reports about the widespread torture by police in Pakistan.
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Turkish Consulate in Zurich attacked by masked group
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Zurich (Switzerland), May 2 (ANI): A large group of masked people attacked Turkey's Consulate in the Swiss city of Zurich late on Monday, officials said.
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BRP urges international community to stop Pak from spreading terrorism
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 2 (ANI): Condemning Pakistan's act of mutilating bodies of two Indian soldiers, Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abdul Nawaz Bugti has said that this was the wake-up call for India and the world abo
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Refugee Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini appointed youngest UNHCR Goodwill Am
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 28 (ANI): First ever Refugee Olympic Team swimmer Yusra Mardini, a Syrian who fled across the Mediterranean, has been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
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UN Committee concerned over enforced disappearances in Pak
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 25 (ANI): The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has raised serious concerns over widespread torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in Pakistan.
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Nadal, Federer to play at Swiss Indoors Basel
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Apr.12 (ANI):18-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer and Spanish tennis maestro Rafael Nadal have confirmed their participation in the Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland to be played later this year.
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Baloch activists join India to condemn Pak over Kulbhushan Jadhav death se
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr. 11 (ANI): Balochistan activists on Tuesday joined India to condemn Pakistan for awarding death sentence to former Indian naval officer and alleged spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.
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Sixth attack on Shias in Parachinar highlights growing intolerance in Paki
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr. 1 (ANI): The latest attack on a Shia Mosque in Parachinar in Pakistan's North West Tribal region's Khurram agency was the sixth such attack on Shias in this town since 2012 highlighting their worsening plight and other minorities living in Pakistan.
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UN urges guarantor states to uphold Syria ceasefire
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 26 (ANI): United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has sent a letter to the three guarantor states of the Syria cease-fire - Russia, Turkey and Iran - urging them to undertake urgent efforts to uphold the cease-fire regime during the ongoing peace talks in
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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Pak sidelined by international community after it interrupts BRP from spea
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 23 (ANI): After the Pakistani delegation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) interrupted the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representatives to speak on the issue of gross human rights violation with the Balochi people due to the construction of the C
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CPEC will reduce Baloch into minority in their own homeland: Noordin Menga
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 17 (ANI): Asserting that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will convert the Baloch people into minorities in their own homeland, Human rights campaigner from Balochistan Noordin Mengal stated that with an influx of outsiders due to the project, the identi
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