United Nations, July 13 (IANS) India is pursuing parallel roads to the UN Security Council (UNSC), launching on Monday a campaign for election to it, while continuing its bid for a permanent seat.External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar is to formally announce India’s candidature for the Asia Pacific non-permanent seat in next year’s elections for the two-year term starting in 2028.India, which has served eight terms as an elected member, will continue its fight against terrorism, a hall…
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New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The appeal by the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to the Indian government for assistance underscores the depth of the crisis unfolding in the region.Protests have continued across PoK for more than a month, with neither the demonstrators nor the Pakistani establishment showing any signs of backing down.An official said that the nature of the appeal is particularly worrying, as people in PoK are seeking medicines and essential food supplies from India. This, th…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Saturday strongly responded to the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s comments on the demolition of religious sites in India, saying he does not have any standing to comment on the internal matters of India.”India categorically rejects the unwarranted comments made by the President of Pakistan. He has, in any case, no locus standi to comment on matters that are internal to India,” the MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said whi…
Geneva, June 19 (IANS) India firmly rejected “baseless and malicious allegations” by Pakistan, while dismissing references to the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), reiterating that the region remains an “integral and inalienable” part of the country.Speaking at the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council, First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, Anupama Singh said, “India is compelled to e…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Pakistan is facing a major fuel crisis due to the disruption in oil supplies triggered by the Middle East conflict, as the Shahbaz Sharif government has failed to manage the fallout of the disruption in oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.“In Pakistan, citizens wait for hours at petrol stations across various cities, paying 55 rupees more per litre than they did two weeks ago. The government is debating a vague plan to reduce the workweek to four days, halve th…
Islamabad, March 5 (IANS) The reverberations of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s subsequent response has also exposed fissures within Pakistan’s own society, experts reckon. Shia communities, in particular, took to the streets in protest after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, demanding solidarity and also questioning Islamabad’s posture. These demonstrations were not just about Pakistan’s foreign policy; they were about identity, belonging, and whether the Stat…