June 30, 2026
India's water resources minister has said New Delhi is working to stop "a single drop" of Indus water from reaching Pakistan, hardening a position that has kept the 66-year-old treaty in suspension since April 2025. Pakistan's defence minister has warned the dispute could lead to war; Islamabad has asked the UN Security Council to intervene.
February 19, 2025
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has called for adopting a policy of “zero tolerance” for violations of the UN Charter and asked the United Nations Security Council to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes. He was delivering a statement at the UN Security Council High-Level Open Debate on “Practicing Multilateralism: Reforming and Improving Global Governance in New York. The Deputy Prime Minister said that adding new permanent members would violate the principle of sovereign equality, make the UN Security Council even less representative and exacerbate the prospects of paralysis in the Security Council. Talking about the UN
February 14, 2025
At the UN Security Council, Pakistan has called for a viable roadmap to address the political and humanitarian crisis in Yemen. During UN Security Council briefing on Yemen, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Munir Akram said the ongoing conflict in Yemen has emerged as a multidimensional crisis with global implications. He said efforts needed to be accelerated to address the various facets of this crisis through effective diplomacy and a collective response. Munir Akram also appealed to the donor countries to enhance their contributions to the 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen.
January 24, 2025
At the UN Security Council, Pakistan has demanded strict accountability for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s children. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Munir Akram told the fifteen-member UN Security Council during a briefing that we must try to ensure that such brutal slaughter of children never happen again. Expressing his concerns at the Israeli threats of restarting the conflict again, Munir Akram said that Israel needs to be held back. He asked the Security Council to take cognizance of what is happening in the West Bank. He demanded accelerating the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians and urged a
January 23, 2025
Pakistan stands ready to share its counter-terrorism expertise with African partners and assist in establishing institutional structures and capacity building for sustainable peace. This was stated by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram while speaking at the United Nations Security Council High-Level Open Debate on “Counter Terrorism in Africa. Ambassador Munir Akram said that the global terrorism landscape has evolved dramatically with the terrorism epicenter having shifted from the Middle East to the Central Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. He said terrorist groups are operating with increasing impunity in ungoverned spaces, including in the Sahel, the Horn
September 26, 2024
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the United Nations Security Council to apply sanctions against Israel, including an arms and trade embargo, for its genocidal acts against the Palestinians. He was delivering a statement during the High-Level Open Debate of United Nations Security Council on “Leadership for Peace” on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. While condemning the recent bombings in Beirut by Israel, the Prime Minister said Israel must halt its genocidal actions in Gaza and prevent any attempts, which provoke a wider conflict in the Middle East In addition,
August 31, 2024
The United States called on Israel to “immediately correct” its behavior after Israel claimed responsibility for a shooting incident involving a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) aid convoy in Gaza on Tuesday night. According to US officials, Israel attributed the incident to a communication error between army units. “Aid workers are there to help innocent civilians, and Israel must ensure they are protected,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller wrote to X. Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Washington that the shooting was a miscommunication within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Wood further
July 3, 2024
Warning that the “tragic scenes on the ground” in Gaza are “just the tip of the iceberg of humanitarian devastation”, China said hunger in the besieged Palestinian enclave “cannot be weaponised”. “Hunger cannot be weaponized, humanitarian issues cannot be politicized and man-made escalation of humanitarian disaster is unacceptable,” Chinese Ambassador Fu Kong told a UN Security Council briefing on Gaza on Tuesday. Calling on Israel to “meet its obligations under international humanitarian law, heed the overwhelming call of the international community,” Fu said Tel Aviv must “take concrete steps to ensure the rapid and safe entry of humanitarian supplies on
Pakistan and China have signed 23 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at enhancing cooperation in various fields. The MoU signed on Friday in Islamabad covered transport infrastructure, industry, energy, agriculture, media, healthcare, water management, socio-economic development and other areas of mutual interest. After delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch briefed the media, emphasizing the strong Pakistan-China Strategic Cooperative Partnership based on mutual trust, common principles and strategic governance. Both nations reiterated their firm support to each other’s core concerns and reaffirmed their commitment to promoting the
May 14, 2022
The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously condemned the killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, diplomats said. The statement — a rare case of Security Council unity on an issue related to Israel — also called for “an immediate, thorough, transparent, and impartial investigation into her killing.” According to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity, the negotiations on the text were particularly arduous. China successfully pushed the United States to remove paragraphs denouncing abuses committed against the media around the world, defending their freedom
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