UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (APP):Pakistan has urged the United Nations to step up its efforts aimed at promoting interfaith harmony, religious tolerance, pluralism and a culture of peace amid the proliferation of Islamophobia. “The clash of cultures and religions is a growing reality in numerous countries and societies,” Dr. Mariam Sheikh, press counselor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, said Wednesday in a session of the UN Committee on Information, a subsidiary body of the General Assembly. In her remarks, she exhorted the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC), which is dedicated to highlighting the world body’s ideals and its work, to increase its technical assistance for the development of communications infrastructures and capabilities in developing countries. The Pakistani delegate also lauded DGC’s work in countering a traffic of lies, hate, and discrimination since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, and in filing the digital space with facts. PM Pakistan to address the 75th session of the UN General Assembly “The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the crucial need for access to free, reliable, trustworthy, factual, multilingual and science-based information,” Ms. Sheikh said, while also underscoring the key role of free, independent, responsible and pluralistic media to enhance transparency, accountability and … Continue reading Pakistan calls for ensuring interfaith harmony at UN