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                                                                                                                                                                      Role in Ending Afghan War
PM Tells UN India Is Planning MisadventureHopeless People of Kashmir

     n By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai               Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 25                                    Wa s h i n g t o n :
           Secretary General                                                                                                                                          Pakistan now
                                               n By Anwar Iqbal        national community that            The prime minister             “In order to divert          has an even more
 World Kashmir Awareness Forum             United Nations: Prime       India was planning anoth-     also urged the UN Secu-        attention from its illegal        important role in
                     Wa s h i n g t o n ,  Minister Imran Khan         er “ill-conceived misad-      rity Council to play its role  actions and atrocities in         ending the Af-
                      DC: “The people      used his address to the     venture” in a “nuclearized    in preventing this danger-     Indian-occupied Jammu             ghan war than it
                      of the State of      UN General Assembly on      environment,” but Paki-       ous conflict, which could      and Kashmir, India is             did in arranging
                      Jammu & Kash-        Friday to warn the inter-   stan was ready to “fight for  jeopardize the entire re-      playing a dangerous game          a peace deal with
                      mir have no                                      its freedom to the end”.      gion.                                                            the Taliban, says
                      words to express                                                                                              PM, P28                           William E. Todd,
                      their heartfelt                                                                                                                                 Washington’s new envoy for Islam-
                      thanks to Presi-     ‘Are People to Be Left to Die?’ Vaccine Pleas Fill UN Summit                                                               abad.
                      dent Recep Tayy-
                      ip Erdogan, the      New York: If the United     The vaccine quest must not be a “purely mercantile act”, Iraq said. Nor “an issue of competi-       Mr Todd, who was nominated
                      President of Re-     Nations was created from    tion”, Turkey suggested. “We must take the politics out of the vaccine,” Kazakhstan stressed   by President Donald Trump earlier
                                           the ashes of World War II,                                                                                                 this year, told his confirmation that
public of Turkey for reiterating one       what will be born from the  survivor, said of the un-     tries have joined Covax,       vaccines and help finance         Pakistan remained a difficult but
more time his Administration’s sup-        global crisis of Covid-19?  certain way forward.          in which richer countries      access for poorer ones.           essential US partner in South Asia,
port for the just cause of Kashmir.                                                                  agree to buy into potential                                      and Washington was seeking to re-
                                                Many world lead-            More than 150 coun-                                     VACCINE, P28                      set its ties with Islamabad.
     His words today at the 75th ses-      ers at this week’s virtual
sion of the United Nations General         UN summit hope it will                                                                                                          “This is an important time in
Assembly have become a source of           be a vaccine made avail-                                                                                                   the broader US-Pakistan relation-
inspiration and give hope to mil-          able and affordable to all                                                                                                 ship,” he told the Senate Commit-
lions of hopeless people of the re-        countries, rich and poor.                                                                                                  tee on Foreign Relations. “This is
gion. His statement at the United          But with the US, China                                                                                                     a longstanding and important, but
Nations General Assembly was the           and Russia opting out of                                                                                                   always complicated and sometimes
true reflection of the aspirations of      a collaborative effort to                                                                                                  contentious relationship.”
the people of Kashmir. His reference       develop and distribute a
to Kashmir is a statement of facts         vaccine, and some rich                                                                                                          Acknowledging that the two al-
when he said, ‘The Kashmir conflict,       nations striking deals                                                                                                     lies have had differences, Mr Todd
which is also key to the stability and     with pharmaceutical                                                                                                        added: “Pakistan is an essential re-
                                           companies to secure mil-                                                                                                   gional partner, and this is an oppor
ERDOGAN, P11                               lions of potential doses,
                                           the UN pleas are plentiful                                                                                                 TODD, P28
 PML-N Leader’s Call on                    but likely in vain.
  COAS Kicks up Storm                                                                                                                                                 Pakistan Considers Sharif ’s
                                                  “Are people to be                                                                                                       Extradition from UK
Islamabad: In a startling revela-          left to die?” Honduran
tion Pakistan Army on Wednesday            President Juan Orlando                                                                                                     London: Imran
disclosed that former Sindh gover-         Hernández, a Covid-19                                                                                                      Khan’s govern-
nor Mohammad Zubair had twice                                                                                                                                         ment is consid-
reached out to Chief of the Army                                                                                                                                      ering asking the
Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and                                                                                                                                       UK to extradite
discussed political and legal woes                                                                                                                                    opposition leader
of deposed prime minister Nawaz                                                                                                                                       Nawaz Sharif,
Sharif and his daughter Maryam                                                                                                                                        after the former
Nawaz in the past few weeks.                                                                                                                                          three-time leader
                                                                                                                                                                      refused to leave
     “Mr Zubair twice met the army                                                                                                                                    London and return to a Pakistani
chief, once in the last week of August                                                                                                                                jail.
and then on September 7 in the pres-
ence of director general ISI,” revealed                                                                                                                                     A senior adviser to Pakistan’s
                                                                                                                                                                      prime minister said Islamabad was
CALL, P28                                                                                                                                                             mulling the request as part of the
                                                                                                                                                                      ongoing transfer of wanted fugi-
                                                                                                                                                                      tives between the countries.

                                                                                                                                                                            Earlier on Sunday he broke a
                                                                                                                                                                      two-year silence and attempted to
                                                                                                                                                                      galvanize the country’s opposition
                                                                                                                                                                      in a speech railing against mili-
                                                                                                                                                                      tary chiefs acting as a “state above
                                                                                                                                                                      a state” to flout democracy and
                                                                                                                                                                      choose the country’s leaders.

                                                                                                                                                                      EXTRADITION, P28

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