UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has underscored the need for a “comprehensive and integrated” approach to regulate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, which kill more than half a million people each year, with a particularly heavy toll on civilians.
Speaking at the Second Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons on Monday, Ambassador Raza Bashi Tarar, Pakistan’s acting permanent representative to the UN, said that his government had taken several steps to promote implementation of the programme aimed at tackling the illegal trade in these weapons.
The Programme of Action, which countries adopted by consensus in 2001, contains concrete recommendations for improving national legislation and controls over illicit small arms, fostering regional cooperation and promoting international assistance and cooperation on the issue.
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What will happened to all those egos and ghairat, if there is any curb on this ? The fact of the matter is that Pakistani society has really lost a plot as to how they wish to live, hence all this dramas !
Maybe if PAK wants to be creditable on this issue it would start with its own nation
What a laugh. And this coming from a country where they willfully destroyed all records of licensed fire arms. Remember the big fire at Interior Ministry !