Pakistan: 'Focused efforts' being made to stamp out extremism

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Sunday 14 Feb 2016 - 15:52 Makkah mean time-5-5-1437 Pakistan envoy to UN Maleeha Lodhi (Image from Internet) New York (IINA) – Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi said her country is making “focused efforts” to stamp out violent extremism and terrorism, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported on Sunday. She made the remarks at the United Nations General Assembly, while slamming "attempts by unprincipled politicians to build their political fortunes by spreading fear and the deliberate mischaracterization of people of other faiths or cultures. Speaking in the 193 member Assembly’s debate on the proposed UN Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, the Pakistani envoy regretted that the rising tide of Xenophobia in the West, in particular Islamophobia, has so far gone unchecked. AB/IINA