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www.newsindiatimes.com – that’s all you need to know United Nations News India Times (July 5, 2025 - July 11, 2025) July 11, 2025 5 Democratic Lt. Governor’s Association Announces $1 Million Investment In Virginia Candidate Ghazala Hashmi’s Race T he Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association (DLGA) announced June 27, 2025, that it will make an initial investment of $1 million to support Indian American Ghazala Hashmi’s campaign for lieuten- ant governor. This investment marks the largest investment in a Virginia lieutenant governor’s campaign to date, and is also double the size of investment the Repub- lican Governors Association is making in Virginia. “The DLGA is proud to make this historic $1 million investment in sup- port of Ghazala Hashmi’s campaign for Lieutenant Governor—the largest ever made to a lieutenant governor candidate in Virginia,” said DLGA Chair and Penn- sylvania Lt. Governor Austin Davis, in the press release. “As a State Senator, Ghazala has been a tireless champion for Virgin- ians – leading efforts to protect Medicaid, safeguard access to reproductive health- care, and strengthen Virginia’s public schools. The ongoing chaos of the Trump administration, the rising cost of living, and the Trump-ordered layoffs of Vir- ginia’s federal workforce raise the stakes of this critical race, and the DLGA is proud to work alongside Ghazala to make history this November.” This investment comes a week after Hashmi secured the nomination in a com- petitive Democratic primary. Hashmi’s opponent in the run to the November general elections, is Republican John Reid. Senator Hashmi is the first Muslim and the first Indian American to serve in the Virginia Senate. She came to the US as a four year-old with her mother and older brother from India to the United States where they joined her father in Georgia as he was completing his PhD in internation- al relations and beginning his university teaching career. She grew up in the small college town as public schools were being desegregat- ed. After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class and receiving multiple full scholarships and fellowships, Hashmi earned a BA with honors from Georgia Southern University and her PhD in American literature from Emory Univer- sity in Atlanta. If elected in November, as Virginia’s next Lt. Governor, Hashmi will be the country’s first female statewide elected Muslim American. By a StaffWriter PHOTO:@GhazalaforVirginia Virginia Senator Ghazala Hashmi, candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia. India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar Calls For Unity Against Terrorism At UN Exhibit I ndia’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, urged the member states of the United Nations to unite against all acts of terrorism in the world and to bring the perpetrators to justice. He also called for establishing a global protocol to deal with terrorism and terror attacks. “Terrorism is one of the gravest threats to humanity. It is the antithesis of every- thing that the UN stands for,” Jaishankar said. He was speaking at the inauguration of ‘The Human Cost of Terrorism’ exhibi- tion at the United Nations Headquarters in NewYork on June 30, 2025. Organized and curated by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, the exhibition will be on display at two locations in the UN Head- quarters from June 30 to July 3 and July 7 to July 11. The exhibition begins just the day before Pakistan takes on the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July, the news outlet IANS noted. It highlights twenty nine major terror attacks around the world, including the 9/11 attacks in the US, the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, the 2008 Mumbai as- saults, the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack, the 2016 Uri attack, the 2019 Pulwama strikes, the 2016 Brussels bombings, the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings and more. A separate digital screen provides infor- mation related to the attacks. It includes a list of the perpetrators of the attacks, number of victims and those injured, their nationalities, details of the terrorism set ups and individuals responsible for the attacks. Strongly expressing the need to bring terrorist attacks to the attention of the world community, Jaishankar referred to Pakistan’s role in the terrorist attack on unsuspecting tourists in Pahalgam. “When terrorism is supported by a state against a neighbor, when it is fueled by the bigotry of extremism, when it drives a whole host of illegal activities, it is impera- tive to call it out publicly and one way of doing so is to display the havoc that it has wreaked on global society,” he said. Speaking of the trauma and pain that the families of victims of terrorism undergo, Jaishankar said the exhibition aims to express solidarity with those families. “Their pain is a stark reminder of the urgency of our shared responsibility to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,” he said. The exhibition also displays the global response to terrorism along with steps taken by India to combat terrorism, protect human rights and foster regional cooperation. These include the Delhi Declaration against terrorist misuse of tech and AI. Jaishankar referred to the recent UN Security Council condemnation of the terrorist act in Pahalgam, where the UNSC demanded that its perpetrators be held accountable and brought to justice. He called for a renewed global commit- ment to end terrorism. “Here at the United Nations we must not just remember and honor but commit ourselves anew to act to protect and to uphold those very values and human rights that terrorism seeks to destroy,” he said. Keeping in view how terrorism any- where is a threat to peace everywhere, Jaishankar urged the UN to set up proto- cols to deal with the threat of terrorism. “It is time the world came up with some basic ways to deal with terrorism,” he said and listed universal measures such as no impunity to terrorists, no treating them as proxies and no yielding to nuclear blackmail. “Any state sponsorship must be exposed and must be countered,” Jaishan- kar said, without naming Pakistan. The exhibition, he said, “is a fitting reminder of the challenge before us.” By Archana Adalja PHOTOS:pminewyork.gov.in India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who inaugurated the terrorism exhibition set up by India at the UN, July 30, 2025. Seen with him is Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish Permanent Representative of India at the UN. India’s EAM S. Jaishankar, speaking at the inauguration of the exhibition on terrorism put up by the government of India at United Nations July 30, 2025. US Affairs