Islamabad - Lok Virsa, Ministry of National Heritage & Integration, here on Thursday created a cultural diorama on Saudi Arabia "Al-Ghadeer" at Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology (PNME).For this purpose, Lok Virsa has allocated a spacious hall of 30x30 feet within PNME, Heritage Museum for ...

ISLAMABAD - Lok Virsa, Ministry of National Heritage & Integration, is creating a cultural diorama on Saudi Arabia "Al-Ghadeer" at the Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology, popularly known as Heritage Museum at Shakarparian.Heritage Museum depicts living cultural traditions and lifestyles of ...

LAHORE/ISLAMABADOUR STAFF REPORTERSThe US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson on Tuesday called on PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind and congratulated him on his party’s success in the elections. Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar and Suleman Shahbaz Sharif were also present in the ...

Some key personalities of Saudi royal family have greeted Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in the May 11 elections.Sources said that Saudi personalities congratulating Nawaz Sharif have expressed their well wishes for him and prayed for his successes and prosperity of Pakistan. Afghan President ...

RIYADH The Saudi government warned on Friday that illegal foreign workers risk being slapped with prison sentences and fines after a three-month grace period runs out on July 3.Additionally, employers or those who shelter illegal workers will be liable to up to two years in prison, the interior and ...

  SYDNEY: An Australian is being detained on terrorism-related charges in Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr revealed Thursday, with the man’s brother claiming he has been tortured. Shayden Thorne, 25, has been held in a jail outside Riyadh for almost 18 months, reportedly after a ...

RIYADH: Thirteen people have died and four more are missing inSaudi Arabiaafter downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defence authorities said on Wednesday. The official SPA state news agency quoted Colonel Abdullah al-Harethi as saying people died in ...

RIYADH  - Saudi Arabia will make sponsors and employers of foreigners working illegally in the country to pay the cost of deporting them, under new rules approved by the Cabinet, the Saudi Gazette reported on Monday.The world’s top oil exporter is cracking down on illegal expatriate ...

DUBAI (Reuters): Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding , the investment firm of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, posted a 9.2 percent increase in its first-quarter net profit, it said in a bourse statement on Sunday.The firm made a net profit of 110.1 million riyals ($29.4 million) during the three ...

RIYADH : Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has removed veteran deputy defence minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan from his post, state media reported on Saturday, the latest move in a reshuffle among princes holding government jobs in the US-allied kingdom.Switches of important posts between princes ...

LAHORE - While most of the Pakistanis perform Umrah as a religious duty, there are many who go for the pilgrimage to get opportunity to earn "easy money" through begging.The Saudi  authorities have identified many such people and are deporting them, official sources told TheNation here on ...

RIYADH  - Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded a citizen in the western city of Medina after he was convicted of shooting dead another man, the interior ministry said.Sultan bin Rashid al-Mutairi had been found guilty of using a machinegun to kill Mused bin Nayer al-Mutairi after a dispute ...

RIYADH  - Abdel Qayum had to borrow money back home in India to buy a Saudi labour visa, but with new curbs on foreigners in the kingdom the construction worker could be deported even before paying off his debt."I paid an equivalent of $4,000 in India to get a work visa in Saudi Arabia," said ...

Islamabad - President Asif Ali Zardari has lauded the decision of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia of allowing a grace period of three months to the expatriate workers including Pakistanis for correcting their labour status in accordance with the new labour laws of the KSA. The ...

Riyadh  - Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where Islamic Shariah law applies, an activist said on Tuesday. “The road is open now to women to receive permits to practise as lawyers, after the ...

Tehran  - Iran has barred a Saudi diplomat allegedly involved in a deadly drink-driving accident from leaving the country, Fars news agency cited top lawmaker as saying on Sunday. The unnamed diplomat was “barred from leaving until the clarification of the (legal) status” of the ...

NOBODY does dangerous driving stunts quite like the youth of Saudi Arabia. Sure, drifting is pretty cool, and Ken Block’s Gymkhana is awesome, but they’re nothing compared to the latest driving craze in the Middle East.It’s called “sidewall skiing” and it basically ...

 DOHA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp (IILM), a body backed by central banks from the Middle East and Asia, announced plans to issue its first Islamic bonds after an unexpected pull-out by Saudi Arabia from the body.The IILM aims to issue up to $500 ...

RIYADH  - Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, is cracking down on illegal workers as part of a push to create more jobs for its citizens and stave off unrest.Inspectors have fanned out across the country, raiding places where they suspect illegal workers are employed, Labour ...

ISLAMABAD  – Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Al-Ghadeer called on Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Shahzada Jamal Nazir here on Friday and discussed matters of mutual interest. The minister talking to the ambassador said Pakistan attaches great importance to its fraternal ...

LONDON  - Britain on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out the “grotesque” punishment of paralysis for a man whose alleged crime took place when he was just 14 years old.Ali al-Khawahir, 24, has reportedly been sentenced to “Qisas” for allegedly paralysing a ...

RIYADH - A Saudi firing squad Wednesday executed in public seven men convicted of armed robbery despite last-minute appeals by rights groups that their lives be spared, the interior ministry and a witness said. The condemned men were convicted of “forming a gang that carried out several armed ...

RIYADH - Saudi police have arrested 176 people, including 15 women, for holding an illegal protest to demand the release of prisoners, the official SPA news agency reported late Friday.The agency, quoting a police spokesman, said protesters were arrested “after refusing to break up a ...

THE British company that built the Shard has landed a contract to manage the construction of what will become the world’s largest building - and plans reveal the two look remarkably similar. London-based Mace won the £780 million deal to build the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ...

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador from Colombo in a tit-for-tat move amid tensions after a Sri Lankan nanny convicted of murder was beheaded in the kingdom, the official SPA news agency reported. “Based on the decision by the Sri Lankan government to withdraw its ambassador ...

RIYADH - Thirty Saudi women took seats in Saudi Arabia's Shura Council, for the first time in the kingdom's history, as they were sworn in before King Abdullah on Tuesday at his palace in Riyadh.The women took their seats in the same room with their 130 male colleagues and were sworn in ...

RIYADH  - A Saudi cleric has said baby girls should be veiled to avoid sexual harassment, in remarks broadcast on television that sparked outrage in the conservative kingdom.“Girls should wear the veil from the age of two,” said Abdullah Daoud on Islamic television Al-Majd, adding ...

RIYADH  - Saudi Arabia has set new limitations on the powers of its notorious religious police, charged with ensuring compliance with Islamic morality but often accused of abuses, its chief said on Tuesday.The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice "once had much ...

Riyadh  - Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani in the eastern Khubar province on Wednesday after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced. Arshad Mohammed was arrested for smuggling heroin and hashish into the kingdom, the ministry was quoted as saying by the official ...

RIYADH - A group of clerics protested outside the royal palace in Riyadh against the king’s decision to appoint 30 women to the kingdom’s top advisory body, a YouTube video posted on Wednesday showed.The footage of Tuesday’s demonstration showed clerics protesting what they said ...