by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 16th, 2023WASHINGTON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir met UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York on Friday and conveyed Pakistan’s concerns over the situation in Indian-held Kashmir and Afghanistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn. Pakistan is particularly concerned about the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to endorse the merger of occupied Kashmir and wants the UN to fulfil its pledge to enable Kashmiris to decide their future through…
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By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews Online, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:42 PMThe UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in an assessment of the situation of Afghanistan to the UN Security Council, recommended a roadmap for reintegration of the country into the international system. On 16 March 2023, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2679 requesting the Secretary-General to provide the Security Council an independent assessment on Afghanistan, no later than 17 November 2023. In…
AFP Report in The News, May 01, 2023DOHA: UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Considered the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, Guterres’s quandary has been deepened by the Taliban administration’s move to stop girls from going to school and most women from working, even for UN agencies. The Taliban…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, April 28, 2023 at 8:49 PMThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Washington D.C., where they discussed various matters including Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters, Blinken said that the US and UN are “working closely together when it comes to Afghanistan – the deep concerns that so many countries share about the steps the Taliban has taken when it comes to denying the rights…