4 mn readMuch awaited, good news for Pakistan; Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave a green signal to exclude Pakistan from its ‘Gray List’. It is said in the FATF declaration that Pakistan has completed its task against money laundering and terror financing, soon FATF team will visit Pakistan and verify the actions done.
3 mn readPakistan has become one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, Pakistan has slipped twelve places in the world rankings regarding freedom of press.
3 mn readIt is very unusual in the history of the country that many newly elected cabinet members are facing cases against them, which include money laundering, drugs cases and corruption cases. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is working on these cases.
4 mn readAn extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was held in Islamabad on Sunday Dec 19, 2021; a mega event which was hosted by Pakistan in the last 4 decades. Delegations from 57 nations and five continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North American and South America) participated in the OIC conference.
3 mn readChinese mission of Geneva failed twice to stop Uyghurs’ renowned Human Rights defenders and politicians in the United Nations Geneva office last week.
4 mn readTwenty years back Twin Towers were attacked in New York USA. Allied troops -USA and 36 nation’s coalition forces NATO-declared war on terror, invaded Afghanistan and removed the Taliban regime from Kabul. After twenty years of war, Taliban retook Kabul. Taliban has announced the oath taking ceremony of newly nominated intern cabinet on Saturday September 11, 2021 to mark the 20th anniversary of nine eleven 2001 incident symbolically. Sources say invitations were sent to 5 countries by the Taliban for the swearing-in ceremony; which includes China, Iran, Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan. The Russian foreign ministry publicized that Russia also received the invitation but it was decided ‘not to witness the event’.
4 mn readMight you constantly think and have logic that United Nations always protect and promote human rights, civil society activists, human rights defenders, and other peace promoters worldwide? Defiantly, you thought with a firm belief that it is not possible how an un-democratic country China could control and use United Nations to counter human rights defenders.
4 mn readFrom 6 October to 14 November 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been held in Geneva Switzerland. NGOs with Special Consultative Status from throughout the world and state parties gathered in this council meeting. Among those NGOs, there was a young human rights activist named Wai-Tong Lee from Japan demanding Hong Kong’s freedom.
2 mn readOn Thursday, 24th September 2020, human rights activists from Hong Kong criticized China in the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland.
5 mn readArif Aajakia once served as the Mayor of Jamshed Town in Karachi. He is a Pakistani French National living in London. For a decade now, Aajakia has attended sessions of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a YouTube channel and provides political commentary to his 141,000 subscribers. Eat News managed to obtain an exclusive interview with Aajakia in late July.
