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| India-Pakistan |
| UN offices in Islamabad receive threats |
| 2008-07-03 |
| Rejecting the reports of closure of United Nations (UN) offices in Pakistan due to threatening phone calls, UN Communication Officer Amna Ali Kamal said on Wednesday that everything at the UN offices in Pakistan was routine and normal. Talking to Daily Times, she confirmed however, that a threatening phone call was made Tuesday to their staffers at one of the UN project offices (Gender Support Programme) situated in the capital and investigations were underway. “One of our staffers working at the office of Gender Support Programme being run in collaboration with UNDP had received a threatening phone call and the police is tracing out the unidentified caller as the government cannot take such things lightly,” Amna added. She said the UN higher authorities had asked the staffers of just that office to remain at home but keep in touch via the Internet. She rejected the news content aired by some news channels that the UN has shut all of its offices due to threatening phone calls. Amna said the security at the UN offices is already tight and the offices are open as routine. |
| Posted by:Fred |