Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations Munir Akram has said that the Israeli government is taking illegal and inhumane actions in Gaza.

Commenting on the United States’ vetoing the UNSC resolution seeking Palestine’s full membership, Ambassador Munir lamented that permanent UN Security Council members did not reach a consensus to implement the crucial decision.

“The Israeli government is taking illegal actions in Gaza and the United Nations has fulfilled its responsibility in the Security Council and the General Assembly. However, permanent members did not agree to implement the decision of the UNSC,” he said.

The member states were bound to implement every decision of the UNSC, he said highlighting that there had been resolutions regarding human rights violations in Gaza.

The ambassador said that efforts were underway to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire at the UN. A special session on the Palestine’s membership would be held on Friday (today), he added.

“At the UN meeting, the Security Council will be asked to review its decision,” he said. 

The Integrated Baggage Management System (IBMS) which was affected by the fire in the immigration hall at Lahore airport on Thursday, has been restored completely.

After restoration of the IBMS, two international flights landed at the Allama Iqbal International Airport. According to the CAA, a short circuiting in the special immigration area had damaged the immigration system. It took more than two hours to control the fire.

Only one Air Blue Hajj flight was able to leave the airport in the meanwhile. The other three flights were manually handled and took off the runway.

According to Civil Aviation, 35 domestic and international flights from Lahore faced delay or cancelations due to smoke at the airport immigration counter after the incident. Passengers hailing from other cities were shifted to nearby hotels.
 
Meanwhile, Federal Aviation Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif also visited the terminal building of Lahore airport. He inspected the fire affected area. On this occasion, the federal minister was also briefed on the restoration of domestic operations.

The Lahore High Court has prevented the registrar from fixing for hearing a petition filed by Salman Akram Raja, a senior lawyer and top PTI leader, seeking the formation of additional election tribunals.

LHC’s Justice Shahid Karim took up Raja’s plea for hearing on Friday.

During the course of proceedings, the judge observed that his name had also been proposed for the tribunal, so how he could hear this case.

At this, Raja remarked that this was not a personal matter of a judge and that the court could hear this case.

Later, the court sought a response from the Election Commission for not appointing judges as tribunal judges.

Salman Akram Raja had approached the Lahore High Court seeking the formation of additional tribunals. He had made the chief election commissioner a party in his petition.

Raja had contended in the petition that election tribunals had been constituted in the high courts of other provinces, but no additional tribunals had been formed even after a letter from the LHC chief justice to the Election Commission which was causing a delay in the hearing on election-related appeals.

The petitioner had sought the formation of additional election tribunals in the high court, through a legal order.