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Daily Times
March 30, 2018
Toronto: Two Pakistani-Canadians have been arrested by Canadian authorities for committing fraud of more $1.1 million. Wajid Ali Khan and Nadeem Imtiaz Ahmed, residents of Mississauga area of Toronto, were under investigation by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) since January 2015 whenÃâà...
Total Slovenia News
March 30, 2018
STA, 30 March, 2018 - Four Serbian citizens who brought eight illegal immigrants across the Croatian-Slovenian border at the end of last year have been sentenced to a total of 34 months in prison, the Koper-based newspaper Primorske Novice reported on Friday. The four Serbs, aged between 19 and 44,Ãâà...
UrduPoint News
March 30, 2018
Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Mar, 2018 )According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, one third Pakistanis (33%) believe that people display helpful attitudes only to show off. A nationally representative sample of men and women from acrossÃâà...
The Manila Times
March 30, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Every autumn on the mountainous Karakoram Highway, part of the ancient Silk Road, groups of Pakistani merchants living in China's far west would wave goodbye to their Chinese wives and cross the border to spend winter in their home country. As the snow piled high, the men would stay inÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 30, 2018
ANKARA: At least 17 people have been killed and another 36 wounded after a bus carrying illegal immigrants, including Pakistanis, hit a lighting pole in eastern Turkey and burst into flames, local media reported on Friday. The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, was carryingÃâà...
SBS
March 30, 2018
Sorry, it appears as though your operating system and/or web browser does not support modern standards. Please consider updating your web browser. Malala Yousafzai's whereabouts in Pakistan were being kept a tightly-guarded secret Friday, one day after her emotional return more than five years afterÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 30, 2018
Pew polls show that Pakistanis are always more unfavorable than favorable towards terrorist groups, including those that strike Pakistan (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) as well as those that strike other nations (LeT and al-Qaida). But their views towards LeT tend to be slightly more favorable than theirÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 30, 2018
ANKARA: At least 17 people have been killed and another 36 wounded after a bus carrying illegal immigrants hit a lighting pole in eastern Turkey and burst into flames, local media reported on Friday. The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, was carrying nationals from Iran,Ãâà...
UrduPoint News
March 30, 2018
Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Abdul Rehman Kanju on Friday said that handing over possession of OPF Valley Housing Scheme Zone-V, Sector A, B and E is a huge success of Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) and a dream come true for the allotees ofÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 29, 2018
KARACHI: Ghandhara Nissan announced that it will start the production of Datsun vehicles in Pakistan, adding to the list of Japanese cars already present in the near $300-billion economy. While its officials fell short of announcing the name of the vehicles intended to be launched, Datsun specialises in theÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 29, 2018
Talking to Geo News, the member of recently constituted 13-member Economic Advisory Council by the Prime Minister, stressed the need to encourage expatriate Pakistanis to invest in domestic sectors. The widening in current account deficit is a major challenge which ballooned by 50 percent to $10.8Ãâà...
Firstpost
March 13, 2018
New Delhi: The CBI has launched a worldwide probe in a child pornography case and approached 40 countries, seeking details of mobile phone owners who were part of a WhatsApp group, in which certain images and videos were shared, officials said. The agency has approached the countries throughÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 13, 2018
Lahore(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Mar, 2018 )According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 3 in 5 Pakistanis (61%) continue to believe that for peace to be established between India and Pakistan it is essential to first resolve Kashmir issue, a 12%Ãâà...
Pakistan Observer
March 13, 2018
ISLAMABAD : Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal has said that all Pakistanis have equal rights per Constitution and no discriminatory policy is being adopted with anyone by the law enforcement agencies. It was stated by him while responding to a Calling Attention Notice regarding alleged humiliation ofÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
March 12, 2018
Overseas Pakistanis sent remittances amounting to $12.833 billion in the first eight months (July to February) of FY18, showing a growth of 3.41 percent as compared with $12.410 billion received during the same period in the preceding year. According to the State Bank of Pakistan, during the month ofÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 12, 2018
Lahore(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Mar, 2018 )According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 58% Pakistanis believe that Pakistan has the right to Kashmir; 32% believe it should be an independent autonomous nation. Rising support for independentÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 12, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani nationals languishing in prisons abroad, especially those in Saudi Arabia, are in the most urgent need of legal help and assistance from their government to be able to properly defend themselves in the courts of law against the allegations because of which they have been putÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 12, 2018
Shehzad Roy and a other pop singers such as Zoe Viccaji and Kashmir band's vocalist Bilal Ali are releasing a single. It is part of the model-turned-entrepreneur Frieha Altaf's social initiative, titled Mein Bhi. While the title literally translates to “me too”, it purports to look beyond just abuse of women, which isÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 10, 2018
At least 10 insurgents were killed and 13 wounded during operations by Afghan forces in Helmand province, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Saturday. According to the NDS' statement the operation was conducted in Khoshkaba area of Lashkargah city of Helmand province. Eight otherÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 9, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Affairs Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said that the government will increase the number of community welfare officers in the foreign countries where overseas Pakistanis are currently living in a large number so that their issues are resolved timely. Replying to a questionÃâà...
Scroll.in
March 9, 2018
Pakistanis who wish to run for public office must declare their faith, rules Islamabad High Court. The order is part of the bench's verdict in the case on the controversial changes to the oath ministers take when they are sworn in. by Scroll Staff. Published Yesterday Ãâ÷ 08:47 pm. Pakistanis who wish to run forÃâà...
The Madera Tribune
March 8, 2018
Debi Bray, CEO of the Madera Chamber of Commerce, left, and Madera South High vice principal Matthew Toews, right, gather with school staff and Chamber members, in giving members of the Jhang, Pakistan Chamber of Commerce a tour of the Campus on Monday. The group of eight visitors will beÃâà...
Economic Times
March 8, 2018
Detained Pakistanis "have braved a system that puts them in periods of detention without charge or trial, no access to legal assistance, pressure on detainees from the authorities to sign confessions and accept predetermined prison sentences to avoid prolonged arbitrary detention," said Sarah Belal,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 14, 2018
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When a friend told Hussain Liaquat that police officers in the Pakistani capital might be checking cars for anything red or heart-shaped the night before Valentine's Day, he decided to get creative. Mr. Liaquat, 22, went to the giant Saeed Book Bank in Islamabad and found a posterÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
December 31, 1999
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday said that overseas Pakistanis will be provided the right to cast their votes. While hearing a case pertaining to dual citizenship of judges and civil servants, Justice Nisar noted that it was about time that overseas Pakistanis are allowed to beÃâà...
The New Arab
December 31, 1999
Thousands of Pakistanis imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and dozens sentenced to death have been denied their legal rights to a defence, a report in Islamabad warned Wednesday. Saudi Arabia executes more Pakistanis than any other foreign nationality annually, the vast majority for heroin smuggling, a jointÃâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
The influx of Chinese companies is triggering an unprecedented interest among Pakistanis to learn Mandarin. And many government and private institutes are keen to help them. The massive Chinese investment is seen as an opportunity for Pakistanis and some of them believe it could change their career.
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
The 29-page report, “'Caught in a Web': Treatment of Pakistanis in the Saudi Criminal Justice System,” documents the Saudi criminal justice system and Saudi courts' rampant due process violations in criminal cases involving Pakistanis. The violations include long periods of detention without charge or trialÃâà...
