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Maleeha Lodhi

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Served as Pakistan's Ambassador at the UN in New York and Amb to US and UK. Writer and editor

Islamabad, Pakistan
Joined October 2012
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@LodhiMaleeha
Maleeha Lodhi
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It was an honour to organise the UNGA visit for Prime Minister Imran Khan Here with the team that made it possible Thank you , officers and staff of Pakistan’s Mission to the UN
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It has been an honour to serve the country & am grateful for the opportunity to do so for over four years. Representing Pakistan at the world’s most important multilateral forum was a great privilege. I had planned to move on after UNGA following a successful visit by the PM -1
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Thank you President Erdogan for taking a principled stand and for your solidarity with the suffering and oppressed people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir
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#Kashmiri conflict is waiting for solution for 72 years - #Erdogan to #UNGA
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Iconic picture someone shared with me
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We salute President Erdogan for forcefully raising the issue of occupied Kashmir in his address today to the UN General Assembly and also referring to UN resolutions on the issue
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We are grateful to all 15 members of the UN Security Council for discussing the situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. China as always stood firmly on principles and upholding international law
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Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke on the phone to Jeremy Corbyn and briefed him about the gravity of the situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and thanked him for the position he has taken on the dispute
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I am humbled by the appreciation I have received for the PM’s visit and the support I have also received over the years. I wish my successor Munir Akram the best of luck!-2
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Live from Washington. PM Imran Khan’s jalsa
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The Commissioner Rawalpindi's claims about ballot rigging is a bombshell. Even a game changer
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5 years
Thank you. Am humbled I will convey your message to my team here
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Have to congratulate @LodhiMaleeha and her team at UNO for organising spectacular visit of @ImranKhanPTI its the team work that earned such huge success and praise.
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I am truly overwhelmed by messages I am receiving on Twitter. As I will be unable to thank everyone individually for their good wishes I want to say how grateful I am for each and every message I have received. I will , as I said before, continue to serve the country.
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Some one shared this incredible video of an election speech by Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah
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Occupied Kashmir, internationalised. Front page of NYT
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We are proud of our female (and male) peacekeepers who serve in UN Missions.Major Fozia Perveen is serving in theUN mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP) , seen here on a patrol in the Buffer Zone.Picture thanks to the UN
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‘Curfew clock’ facing the UN building in New York.
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Right. Children are under attack in occupied Jammu and Kashmir so why doesn’t UNICEF also speak up for them ?
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UNICEF
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Children can’t wait for peace. #ChildrenUnderAttack #UNGA
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Pakistan has just been elected as Vice President of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC ) We are humbled and delighted by this unanimous decision of the 54-member body. Earlier, my candidature was endorsed by 53 members of the Asia-Pacific Group.
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Picture on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal
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With Prime Minister Imran Khan in between his back to back meetings yesterday in Washington DC
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Honour to receive the Prime Minister on his first visit to #UNGA74
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Correction. It is the first time since 1965 that a meeting exclusively on occupied Jammu and Kashmir is taking place. It is in progress right now
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Congratulations to Sajid Javed for being appointed as Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer First British of Pakistani heritage to do so. First Asian as well to hold this key position @sajidjavid @TomDrewUK
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At the trilateral summit between Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia the three leaders agreed to promote the narrative of Muslims to counter Islamophobia and to cooperate in the area of film and also establish a joint TV channel
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Sorry typo in previous tweet. Prime Minister Imran Khan Met British PM this morning.
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This is a win for Pakistan For it’s Constitution, it’s democracy. The people’s will Is supreme
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Just spoke in the UNGA on the status of Jerusalem : “Our support to the Palestinian people remains unwavering despite the kind of threats that we have received in recent days”
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UN statements on occupied Jammu & Kashmir
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We are proud of all our Peacekeepers !
@UNPeacekeeping
UN Peacekeeping
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Pakistan is one of the largest troop contributors to @UN Peacekeeping constituting over 9% of the UN's total deployment. Here, Major Fozia Perveen from #Pakistan is pictured on a @UN_Cyprus routine patrol in the Buffer Zone.
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PM Imran Khan addressing Asia Society now
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Prime Minister Imran Khan has made an impassioned speech against Islamophobia at the event organised ( and going on right now) by Pakistan and Turkey at UN. He was direct and emphatic about the need to counter Islamophobia
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What about the children abducted in the dead of the night by occupation forces in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir ? The Kashmiri teenager who lost his life earlier this month to pellet gun injuries?
@UNReliefChief
Martin Griffiths
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3,758 backpacks. 3,758 children not going back to school because they were killed in conflict last year. Today I visited @UNICEF ’s powerful and heartbreaking installation @UN . World leaders need to do more to #ENDviolence against children, and all civilians caught in conflict.
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We have taken up the issue of a Dutch politician’s announcement to hold a blasphemous competition with the UN Secretary General’s office and the OIC Group in New York at the Ambassadorial level and will continue our efforts in this regard
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s letter to UN Secretary General on the grave situation in occupied Kashmir has also been circulated among members of the UN Security Council. This details the serious human rights violations and cross LoC violations- 1 @SMQureshiPTI
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I will be meeting the President of the UN Security Council today at UNHQ to apprise her about the threat to regional peace and security posed by India’s illegal actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its violations of SC resolutions and international law
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اگر بھارت کے پاس چھپانے کے لیے کچھ نہیں ہے تو وہ پھر اقوام متحدہ کے خصوصی مشن کو حقیقت کا جائزہ لینے کے لیے مقبوضہ کشمیر جانے سے کیوں روکتا ہے۔ بھارت جو بھی کر لے حقیقت کو چھپایا نہیں جا سکتا
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This acknowledges that Pakistan continues to be a generous host to Afghan refugees
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25 million refugees are being hosted by countries around the world. @refugees explains how these countries have stepped up to help those who have lost everything. #WithRefugees
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Prime Minister Imran Khan takes his seat in UNGA. Foreign Minister S M Qureshi accompanying him
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Just before PM Imran Khan addressed a side event we organised with Turkey on Hate Speech at the UN earlier this week. With members of my team at Pakistan ‘s Mission to the UN
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Our people are waiting for President Putin to visit Pakistan”- PM Imran Khan renewed invitation for Russian President to visit in his meeting with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov at UN this morning
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Never has Pakistan, having seen many crises in the past, faced a situation like this. Of total political chaos and economic breakdown. This is untenable and the people of the country don't deserve this. This must change
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The government’s rhetoric on occupied Jammu and Kashmir needs to be matched by action. Tweets and naming a highway are not a substitute for a strategy. It needs to articulate a clear Kashmir policy and the diplomatic steps it plans to take
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Receiving Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi at Penn Station as he arrives to attend the UNGA. Heavy agenda and v hectic schedule ahead
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This in only the tip of the iceberg : a brutal occupation in which torture is widespread as is rape as an instrument of repression Don't beat us, just shoot us': Kashmiris allege violent army crackdown - BBC News
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How about your concern for children in occupied Kashmir ?
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UNICEF is greatly concerned by the latest developments in northeast Syria. I urge all parties to protect children and the civilian infrastructure on which they depend. #ChildrenUnderAttack
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Pakistan has just won a seat on the 54 member United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)after receiving 175 votes out of 186 member states present and voting in the General Assembly Pakistan won 94 per cent of the votes of the UN membership
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PM Imran Khan begins address to UNGA
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In the UN General Assembly just before the PM’s speech
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"The curfew should be immediately lifted in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir so that the people there can freely express what they feel about Indian aggression" - PM Imran Khan in his meeting with Erna Solberg, PM of Norway
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It was an honour to serve my country and I will continue to do so.
@SMQureshiPTI
Shah Mahmood Qureshi
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On the completion of her tenure as Pakistan's Ambassador to UN, I would like to extend my gratitude to Ambassador @LodhiMaleeha for serving her country with utmost dignity, diligence and honour. Wish her all the very best with her future endeavours.
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Almost two months of a cruel curfew and a lockdown that has robbed the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir of all their liberties. When it ends, and end it must, the voice of the people will be heard, asking India to quit Kashmir, to let them determine their own destiny
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Kashmir has been on lockdown for nearly 2 months after India stripped the region of its autonomy. People can't reach loved ones, can't get to the hospital, can't get to school. Here's what the photographer @atulloke saw at the front lines of the crisis.
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At the Pakistan desk in the UNGA waiting for the Foreign Minister to speak soon
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This is my only account. All other accounts are fake. Someone has set up an account and tweeting which has nothing to do with me
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I met the President of the UN Security Council Joanna Wronecka Tuesday afternoon at the UN to apprise her about the grave threat to regional peace and security posed by India’s illegal actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its violations of SC resolutions
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Came across this amazing photograph from a magazine on Instagram of our Quaid e Azam listening to an Eid sermon
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According to this video , residents of this neighbourhood outside Srinagar call their area ‘Kashmir’s Gaza’
@AFP
AFP News Agency
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VIDEO: In an act of defiance against New Delhi's decision to strip Muslim-majority Indian-administered #Kashmir of its autonomy, the #Soura neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city of #Srinagar has sealed itself off from security forces
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This morning PM Imran Khan met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN
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Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are just over $3 billion. Very precarious situation and we are still not moving on urgent econ policy actions Very alarming and irresponsible
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FM SM Qureshi being greeted and congratulated after delivering his address to the UN General Assembly
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Prime Minister Imran Khan told the Russian FM in their meeting today that Pakistan is building a qualitatively new relationship with Russia and he remains committed to intensify this endeavour
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Elections were held in Pakistan in 2008 when the security situation was far worse in the country than it is today. At that time there were several operations going on against militants. So invoking security as a pretext not to hold elections today is just that, an excuse
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Prime Minister Imran Khan speaking now at USIP in Washington
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The crisis in Occupied Kashmir is compounding. The international community must act to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe
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DW News
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The Indian government denies there is a "health crisis" in Kashmir but hospitals are struggling to care for patients and canceling surgeries as the lockdown stretches into a second month.
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“I have come to New York especially for Kashmir. Everything else is secondary. The world doesn’t realise that we are heading for a big disaster” - PM Imran Khan while talking to the editorial board of WSJ
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So if we follow the logic and justification of ECP's postponement decision then democracy and elections can be suspended indefinitely due to the "deteriorating security" situation as determined by executive authorities. All eyes on the Supreme Court now.
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Handing over our Foreign Minister’s letter to the President of the Security Council this morning, calling for a meeting of the Council on the situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir @SMQureshiPTI
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Stunning picture
@ForeignOfficePk
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan
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Pakistan Embassy in Kabul ⁦ @PakEmbKabul #WinterWonderland
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Prime Minister Imran Khan hosted a dinner in New York for members of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu & Kashmir. Grave concern was expressed at the dire situation in occupied J & K
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Soon PM Imran Khan will be speaking at the Climate Action Summit called by UN Secretary General
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Front page of the international edition of the New York Times The plight of Kashmiri students reported on the front page
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I met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today and underscored the urgency of taking steps to deal with the worsening situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir, where a political & human rights crisis is raging with a round the clock curfew & lockdown having entered the 36th day
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In between meetings on a packed day for Prime Minister Imran Khan
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Outside the UN at 7 pm, after seeing the PM off at the airport - getting ready for an interview with TRT
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At Penn Station seeing off the FM SM Qureshi and Foreign Sec Tehmina Janjua along with colleagues
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First summit level Trilateral meeting of Pakistan, Malaysia and Turkey just ended. Significant start to three way cooperation on a host of issues Now bilateral meeting between PM Imran Khan and PM Mahathir underway
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They have been prevented from speaking but their voice was heard and their plight discussed today by the UN Security Council
@amnesty
Amnesty International
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Let them speak.
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Another chilling account of a brutal occupation : Hospitals in occupied Kashmir turned into graveyards
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
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“So many innocent people are dying for no fault of their own,” says a doctor in India's northern state of Kashmir. “Hospitals have become graveyards.”
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Met Maria Fernanda Espinosa , President of UN General Assembly & briefed her in detail about the grave situation in occupied Kashmir where the continuing curfew & lockdown is exacerbating the suffering of the Kashmiri people.UN should live up to its obligations on IOK
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Finally my book is out ! In the bookstores this weekend inshallah!
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Finally
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United Nations Geneva
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Independent @UN experts urge #India to end communications shutdown in #Kashmir . “The shutdown of the internet & telecommunication networks, without the Government justification, are inconsistent with the fundamental norms of necessity & proportionality."
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At the side event co-chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan and PM Mahathir Mohammed at the UN on ‘Environmental Stewardship in Addressing Poverty to Achieve Sustainable Development for All’
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Police impose restrictions in Indian Kashmir after Pakistan PM's speech | Article [AMP] | Reuters
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As we mark @UN Peacekeepers Day today we salute our women peacekeepers serving in UN missions with great distinction like their male counterparts from Pakistan
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Prime Minister Imran Khan met with Mr. Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy at the UN this evening
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Nice to see Shahid Afridi at the UN when he came to visit this morning
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I reiterated Pakistan's call on the UN to appoint a special envoy on Kashmir to help resolve the dispute
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I told the UNGA in reply to Indian FM's speech today that law has no expiry date: morality has no sell by date
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Proud to see a picture of a Pakistani Female Peacekeeper displayed at the UN today who served with the UN Mission in Liberia before it closed
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PM Imran Khan met with members and leaders of the Kashmiri diaspora this afternoon in NY. Discussed the grave crisis in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir
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Let me repeat:our federal authorities need to show more seriousness & urgency to deal with the Coronavirus crisis.Also reach out to Sindh government to offer all assistance as Sindh still has the largest number of cases. The responsibility of running a federation is Islamabad’s
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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s meeting this morning with George Soros
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Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives Saturday morning on Mission Kashmir to a packed program at #UNGA74 He will be the voice of the Kashmiri people at the UN. In addition to his GA address he will also speak at Asia Society &Council on Foreign Relations
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کشمیر میں لائن آف کنٹرول پر شہری آبادی پر کلسٹر ہتھیاروں کے بے دریغ استعمال سے عالمی برادری پر قابض بھارتی فوج کا اصل چہرہ عیاں ہو گیا ہے۔ بھارت نے ہمیشہ مروجہ عالمی قوانین خصوصاً جنیوا کنونشن کی خلاف ورزی کی ہے۔
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“Obfuscation, deception and diverting attention from ugly ground realities are the most familiar page out of the Indian play book ”- Pakistan’s reply to India @UN
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