ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said that Pakistan remains fully committed to the promotion and protection of human rights and urged the international community to closely monitor the situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and also to urge India to respect its international obligations.
Giving Pakistan’s reaction to the recent US State Department Human Rights Report, the Foreign Office spokesperson, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, said that Pakistan remains fully committed to the promotion and protection of human rights, in line with its national legal framework and international obligations. He said that a series of legislative, administrative and policy measures as well as institutional reforms have been introduced in the country with a special focus on vulnerable groups, to ensure the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by all Pakistani citizens. “We believe that the global human rights agenda is better served through constructive engagement
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FM dispels impression of normalization of Pak-India trade ties
April 03, 2021
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that this is wrong impression that relations between Pakistan and India have been normalized and trade has initiated.
He said this while addressing various ceremonies held in NA 156&157 in Multan on Saturday.
The Foreign Minister made it clear that Pakistan will not start trade with India until New Delhi reverses its unanimous and illegal measures of 5th August 2019 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi further said that entire world is appreciating Pakistan’s role as a mediator in the Afghan peace process. He said that Pakistan believes that peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan will help promote peace and stability in the region. He said that Intra-Afghan negotiations are a golden opportunity for Afghan leadership to bring peace and stability.
Imran no more PM as cabinet rejects summary, says Abbasi
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April 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Thursday said Imran Khan should know that morally he was no more prime minister after the federal cabinet had rejected his summary for import of sugar and other items from India. Addressing a press conference here with Ahsan Iqbal, Abbasi demanded that the Supreme Court should expose those behind the kidnapping of polling staff in NA-75 Daska by-elections in the light of geo-fencing report of the presiding officers.
“This is not only a matter of results of by-elections, but also of kidnapping of the polling staff to steal the elections,” he said.