Pakistan “has broken the silent process” of the United Nations security council’s renewal of the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp), President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. “What I have been informed of this morning is that Pakistan has broken the silent process in which the resolution was put, has advanced some comments, and it is a process. He also said that the Turkish Cypriots and Pakistan have “historical ties of culture and brotherhood” with one another. The UN security council had initially been expected to vote on whether to renew Unficyp’s mandate for another year on Thursday, though this vote has now been postponed until Friday. Unficyp has a rolling one-year mandate which was most recently extended on January 31 last year