ROME – Pakistani Ambassador to Italy H.E. Nadeem Riyaz shrugged off a recent cricket injury to appeal to the foreign and Italian press for coverage of ‘atrocities’ and human rights abuses in the Indian annexed half of disputed Kashmir which has been under curfew and a communications blackout since August.

 ROME — After what now looks like the token axeing of the FAO HR director for alleged serial sex harassment, the new Chinese supremo at the UN poverty-busting agency seems to be following in the footsteps of his predecessor by hobnobbing with envoys from dodgy regimes such as Azerbaijan and generating vast quantities of hot air, FAO watchers say.

 According to the FAO website Qu Dongyu had a ‘major meeting’ with senior staff members and reported on all the latest developments since he took over last month from Brazilian ‘caudillo’ José Graziano da SIlva.