[DAWN] When some 146 world leaders gather at the United Nations...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
General Assembly in New York this week, they are expected to discuss issues of international peace and security as several conflicts from Syria to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
rage on, defying any resolution.
The Pak delegation will be led by Foreign Minister Shah
Mehmood WormtongueQureshi who arrives in New York, which houses the UN headquarters, from Washington on Sunday night. It will be the new Pak government’s first senior level interaction with the United Nations.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the much-heralded India-Pakistain foreign ministers’ meeting was called off by New Delhi citing an incident in occupied Kashmire.
According to Pak officials, a busy programme awaits the foreign minister who will attend at least 40 events and hold about two dozen bilateral meetings.
The highlight of his visit will, of course, be his speech in the General Assembly on Sept 29 in which he will set out the new government’s priorities and its position and policy on key international and regional issues including the situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmire, particularly in the light of UN Human Rights Council’s report which has cited India of violations. New Delhi bristles at the mention of Indian Kashmiree and human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
violations there.
Pakistain’s foreign minister is expected to deliver his speech in Urdu language.