UN chief urgently appeals to Pakistan, India for restraint post-LoC violation

-
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday issued an urgent appeal to Pakistan and India for "maximum restraint" in the wake of the airspace violations by Indian warplanes along the Line of Control (LoC), according to his spokesperson.
"The Secretary-General is closely following the situation," Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson, said in response to a question at the regular noon briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Guterres "reiterates his urgent appeal to both the Governments of India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint to ensure that the situation does not further deteriorate," the spokesperson added.
The secretary-general is on his way back home from Geneva.
Responding to a question about India's claims of heavy casualties on the Pakistani side, he said the UN had nothing on it.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, delivered a letter — penned by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and addressed to the UN Secretary-General — at his office.
Guterres is due to return to New York this evening.
The Pakistani envoy is also circulating to the UN member states the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) condemnation of airspace violations along the LoC by the Indian warplanes.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Oscar 2019

-
The 91st Academy Awards, introduced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will respect the best movies of 2018. The function will be hung on February 24, 2019 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. AMPAS will display Academy Awards (generally alluded to as Oscars) in 24 classes. The function will be broadcast in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and created by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss likewise filling in as director.It will be the principal service in three decades, since the 61st Academy Awards in 1989, to be led with no host. In related occasions, the Academy held its tenth Annual Governors Awards service at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 18, 2018. Function subtleties and debates Because of the last two functions' blended gatherings and declining evaluations, makers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd declined to steerage the 2019 honors, and were supplanted by ...
Read more

Pakistan Army warns India: 'Time to wait for our surprise'

-
RAWALPINDI: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor rubbished the Indian claims of being present inside the Pakistani airspace for 21 minutes during their Line of Control breach today. "Almighty Allah is all powerful. Let India come and stay in Pakistani airspace for 21 minutes. We will see what will happen next,” Maj General Asif Ghafoor said in a news conference. The Pakistan army spokesperson said that Pakistani forces repulsed the four to five nautical miles breach of the Indian Airforce. The army spokesperson said that the Indian forces flew away after dropping a payload of four bombs inside Pakistani territory. "The Indian forces wanted to target the civilian areas," he said. "I had called you all (journalists) so that I would have taken you all there and shown you the reality on the ground. But unfortunately, I cannot take you there by air right now due to the weather conditions," he said. "Not e...
Read more