PAKISTAN: Immunizing children against disease (by UNICEF Pakistan, via muslimmafia)
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WARPED BLACKBOARD: Three-year old Rajo stood in front of a blackboard corroded by floodwater Thursday in the Pakistani village Ramli Khosso. Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction, the United Nations said. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters) (via in1987)
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One is a sportsman par excellence bringing accolades to the country, while the other is groundbreaking pop singer with a fan following crossing all boundaries. Their fields are different but what they share is a deep feeling for the country and the people of Pakistan.
Aisam ul Haq Qureshi and Hadiqa Kiani are Pakistan’s UN Development Programme National Goodwill Ambassadors.
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The following is the official statement from the Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations on the death of Osama bin Laden
R.No.150/2011
Office of the Spokesperson
Press Release
Death of Osama bin Ladin
In an intelligence driven operation, Osama Bin Ladin…
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Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna read Portuguese Minister’s speech at United Nations Security Council for three minutes until pointed out for his mistake.
Well okay lets be honest, in Pakistan and India we love blaming each other’s intelligence agencies when things go wrong. It is almost a standard joke now, but here you can see Pakistani ISI pulling out another trick - they make S M Krishna read the Portuguese speech for three minutes until an official intervenes and points out the correct paper!
News clip is from an Indian News Channel and is in Hindi, we couldn’t find any English commentary on the gaffe.
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World champion footballers and United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassadors, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane announced that the 8th Annual Match against Poverty as per the annual schedule of UNDP will channel funds into recovery efforts for the nearly 25 million people affected by the Pakistan floods and Haiti earthquake later this year.
According to official website, UNICEF and UNDP team up with Beckham and Zidane to draw global attention towards helping Pakistani flood victims but the news reports in media are quoting the names of Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane to play the charity match.
The match will be played on 15 December at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece. As in previous years, the Goodwill Ambassadors will mobilize their team from across Europe to take on an all-star team from Olympiacos Football Club in a friendly match as part of the global effort to reduce poverty and achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Football’s magic and player’s stardom will surely be a magnet for the global awareness to support the people and governments of Pakistan and Haiti to recover from the devastating natural disasters which affected them so terribly in 2010 but unfortunately often too quickly forgotten.
UNDP will receive half of the match proceeds which it will dedicate to ongoing recovery efforts in Haiti and Pakistan. Earlier this year, in January, the 7th Annual Match took place in Lisbon, Portugal, where the Zidane/Ronaldo UNDP team took on Benfica, drawing a crowd of 55,000 spectators and raising more than half a million euro (US$767,000) for the people of Haiti.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane to play for Pakistan Haiti disaster relief- Chowrungi
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UNITED NATIONS: For the third time in a row, Pakistan was re-elected Monday to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the economic arm of the United Nations, for a three-year term, beginning 1 January 2011.
Already on the 54-member council, Pakistan received 149 in the 192-member UN General Assembly to serve another term.
Five weeks ago, torrential monsoon rains triggered devastating flooding in Pakistan. It turned out to be the country’s worst natural disaster on record. Across the country, more than 1.2 million homes damaged or destroyed. The rice you earn on Freerice from September 7 will go to help the people of Pakistan.
Since the start of the crisis WFP has delivered a one-month supply of food to more than 3 million people. These include a million young children, who have been given special foods to prevent them from slipping into malnutrition. Last week, we started enriching the basic emergency food rations used up to now, adding new items including rice.
Because of the flood damage, many farmers in Pakistan cannot plant crops for the coming year, meaning that in addition to the current needs – around six million people currently need food – there is also a risk of severe hunger in the coming year.
The Facts:
- 3.6 million hectores of cropland have been submerged and 200,000 head of livestock killed.
- March 2011 will be the earliest that farmers can plant crops again, if flooding prevents them in mid-September.
- 3 million people have been reached by WFP with a one-month supply of food – 100,000 people a day.
- 600 WFP trucks are transporting WFP food around the country, at any given moment.
Many thanks to everyone playing Freerice and helping the millions who have seen their lives washed away by the floods.
If you would like to do more, please go to wfp.org/pakistan (via almas88)
