UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan was placed at 145 while India ranked 134 among 189 countries on UNs 2011 Human Development Index (HDI) that measures achievements in health, education and income indicators, as an alternative to purely macro-economic assessments of national progress. The HDI forms part of ...

ISLAMABAD - The UN-launched Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) would be followed by an international humanitarian appeal for funds generation in order to provide a consolidated humanitarian response to Sindhs flood ravaged parts, it is learnt. The ongoing RNA would estimate the extent of flood damages ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan told the UN Friday that its decolonisation agenda would be incomplete without settling the decades-old Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir, where more than 100 freedom-seeking people have been killed over the past two months. A peaceful resolution of this dispute is imperative ...

A UN report on the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is a ''pack of lies'' that wrongly implicates ex-President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan's security forces for not stopping her killing, an aide to Musharraf said Friday. The three-member UN panel said her death could have ...

UNITED NATIONS-Lieutenant General Sikander Afzal of Pakistan will head the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Marie Okabe told the regular briefing that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council of his intention to appoint ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN commission of inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will make a contribution to cause of justice by identifying the facts and circumstances behind the December 2007 tragedy, its head Heraldo Munoz said on Wednesday. Responding to Press ...

UNITED NATIONS - Russia, wielding its veto power in the UN Security Council, brought an end Monday to the nearly 16-year-old observer mission monitoring a ceasefire between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia's veto late Monday toppled a Western plan to extend the life of the United ...

The world needs "to think big" to solve the global financial crisis while helping reduce poverty, the U.N. secretary-general said on Friday. Ban Ki-moon, speaking after an informal retreat with leaders attending a U.N. development financing conference in the Qatari capital, said it was important to ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned his top lieutenants that the global financial crisis jeopardized everything the United Nations has done to help the world's poor and hungry. "It threatens to undermine all our achievements and all our progress," Ban told a meeting of U.N. agency ...

UNITED NATIONS - Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran diplomat who headed a global study on the security of U.N. staff members, has said that the world's "big powers" have tarnished the world body's image of neutrality, at a time when the world body is increasingly threatened by terrorist attacks. ...