Pakistan, June 26 -- Pakistan has called for a stronger global commitment to peacebuilding, telling the United Nations that peacekeeping efforts alone cannot deliver lasting stability without sustained political support, national ownership and long-term development. The country stressed that successful post-conflict recovery requires coordinated international action from the earliest stages of peace processes.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly debate on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said peacebuilding must begin alongside peacekeeping rather than after conflicts end. He emphasized that conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-...