Leonardo DiCaprio invited to Pakistan by UN ambassador

Leonardo DiCaprio met Pakistan's Maleeha Lodhi at the UN climate change assembly session.

Leonardo DiCaprio fans in Pakistan had a lot to cheer about the past few days after Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, invited the Oscar-winning star to visit the country.

Taking advantage of her meeting with DiCaprio, who is also the UN messenger of peace, at a United Nations ceremony on climate change, Lodhi invited him to visit Pakistan and took to Twitter to announce it, along with a picture of her with the star.

Lodhi met the Oscar-winning actor at the UN General Assembly session where The Paris Agreement was signed by 175 countries, including Pakistan.

The deal aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions for slowing down the rapidly increasing threat of global warming.

The UN peace messenger, DiCaprio, was one of the speakers at the ceremony. "You will either be lauded by future generations or vilified by them," he said in his inspiring speech.

"We can congratulate each other today, but it will mean absolutely nothing if you return to your countries and fail to push beyond the promises of this historic agreement. Now is the time for bold, unprecedented action," DiCaprio added.

"Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong." The Paris deal commits countries to restraining the global rise in temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But even if the pact is fully implemented, promised greenhouse gas cuts are insufficient to limit warming to an agreed maximum, the United Nations says.

Hollywood stars, who have frequented Pakistan in the past decade for film shoots and humanitarian visits, include Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn.

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