ISLAMABAD – The ICCI has urged the Passports department to look into delay in issuance of passports and consider renewal or new passports requests by the members of business community on priority.Saeed Ahmed Bhatti, Acting President said in a statement here on Thursday that the businessmen ...

LAHORE  - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that validity of Pakistani passport would be extended from 5 years to 10 years. He was talking to media at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore, after inaugurating locally developed Integrated Border Management System (IBMS) on ...

PM advisor on internal affairs Rehman Malik called on India to provide more details about 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal and said criminals using "fake" passports cannot be Pakistani."Pakistan expects to receive a copy of the statement of (Jundal). I expect to have original passport claimed to have ...

LAHORE - As many as 5,634 passports of Pakistanis and some other foreign nationals collected for Umra visas have been stolen from the Karachi offices of the Travel Agents Association of Pakistan (TAAP). The affectees include half a dozen relatives of the family of a cousin of PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday directed the Ministry of Interior to clear the backlog of Machine Readable Passports and National Identity Cards for local and overseas Pakistanis. Talking to Jamil Ahmad Khan, Pakistan's Ambassador to UAE who called on him at the PM ...

LAHORE The FIA on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two human-traffickers allegedly involved in minting money from the innocent citizens on the pretext of sending them abroad. The raiding team also recovered 32 passports, cheque-books and other travel documents from their possession. FIA Director ...

QUETTA (APP) - 545 passports of them two belonging to ministers were burnt when unidentified armed men set ablaze a courier van here in Khuzdar. This was stated by the Assistant Director Passport Office Saeed Agha while addressing a Press conference at his office on Tuesday. Giving the details, he ...

MULTAN - For ordinary Pakistanis, Haj may be a religious duty, but when it comes to Pakistan government it is more than a ritual-its an earning spree. Every year Pakistani pilgrims hear the news of hike in Haj expenses, but this year it is coupled with another news. Besides 19 per cent increase in ...

PESHAWAR (Online) The law enforcement agencies have started investigation against the Afghans having Indian passports while also started to monitor the trade and travel activities of Afghan refugees in tribal and settled areas. Sources revealed that the operation started after the FIA and other ...

KARACHI President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has said that the Parliament, Opposition and Establishment do not want to see the present democratic system derailed, as it is the right of the elected government to complete its five-year tenure. No ...