Although ceremonial and lasting just a month, Pakistan takes over presidency at a critical juncture and has opportunity to do ...

With the USA’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities on 22 June 2025 (and I specify the date, because Trump is actively ...

Pakistan assumes the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, a position it takes on as part of its two-year term as a non-permanent member. The presidency rotates monthly among the Council’s ...

When the powerful are not willing to open the gates for the deserving, it is time to gatecrash and make oneself heard.

On the morning of May 18, 1974, at 8:05 sharp, some 110 kilometres from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan’s Thar desert, the push of a ...

Iran said its missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar matched the number of bombs dropped by the United States on its ...

Iran said its missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar matched the number of bombs dropped by the United States on its ...

Iran said its missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar matched the number of bombs dropped by the United States on its ...

Like Korach’s rebellion, the UN Security Council in its current form allows self-serving power to triumph over the collective good. It has become an obsolete, irrelevant impediment that should be ...

Asked if the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) enjoy the necessary power and authority to remove the UNSC sanctions against Iran without any need to the consent of the ...

Pakistan is set to chair the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee in 2025, and will also serve as a vice-chair of the Council’s influential Counter ...

A number of countries including most P5 countries have also endorsed India's candidature as a permanent member of a reformed Security Council. Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez Acha on ...