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Stop 'double standards', impose pressure on Pak: JD (U) asks U.S
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 24 (ANI): Advocating the United Nations and the United States to stop 'double standards' on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday asked them to impose pressure on Pakistan for its complicity in global terrorism.
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Pak should no more be in denial about Dawood: Ujjwal Nikam
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 24 (ANI): With the United Nations virtually endorsing India's stand that Dawood Ibrahim is based in Pakistan, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Wednesday said that Islamabad should no more be in a denial mode about the whereabout
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Dawood's addresses: Cong asks UN to take cognizance, question Pak
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug 23 (ANI): The Congress Party on Tuesday said the United Nations should now question Islamabad following its committee's report on the addresses of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan.
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UN strikes out three of nine Dawood's addresses in Pak as incorrect
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York, Aug. 23 (ANI): The United Nations has removed three of the nine places cited by India as the addresses of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan after a committee found it to be incorrect.
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Gilgit leader seeks UN help to break free from Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels (Belgium), Aug. 22 (ANI): Taking a strong exception to "grave" human rights situation in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), Balawaristan National Front (BNF) chairman Abdul Hamid Khan has appealed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the U.N., and the Eur
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Philippine President Duterte threatens to leave UN
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Aug 21 (ANI): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday railed against the United Nations after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation.
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UNHCHR offers to send fact-finding missions to Kashmir
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.18 (ANI): The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) has offered to send fact-finding missions to both Indian administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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UNHRC intervention in Kashmir 'unacceptable': BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 18 (ANI): While appreciating United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) request to visit Kashmir to examine if there was any human rights violation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said Kashmir is India's internal matter and not an area of UNHRC interve
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Afghan cyclists reach India to convey message of peace
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug.16 (ANI): In a move to promote peace, the two Afghan cyclists Dr. Nader Shah and his son Firoz Khan started a round-the-world trip in 2015. In a span of a year and two months they have travelled more than 11000 KMs by bicycle to 15 countries in Asia, Europe and American to co
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PM Modi should take up Balochistan issue at U.N., says Baloch leader
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 13 (ANI): Welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on Balochistan, World Baloch Women's Forum president Naela Quadri Baloch on Saturday said the people of the region support him and he should take up the Baloch issue with the international community at the
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UN says "gravely concerned" by Nauru abuse reports
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London, Aug. 10 (ANI): Voicing concern over the leaked reports revealing widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it is "gravel
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Public spending in Pak is politically driven: UNDP chief
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 10 (ANI): The outgoing chief of United Nations Development Programme, Marc Andre has said the concentration of public spending in Pakistan is politically driven and only restricted to a few developed districts, which is increasing inequality between the rich and poor regions.
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