WASHINGTON - Pakistanis ranks among the most racially tolerant people in the world, despite having less economic development and being located in the region housing some of the least racially tolerant populations, according to a survey.In contrast, India is placed among least tolerant states, along ...

karachi - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $11,569.82 million in the first ten months (July – April) of the current fiscal year 2012?13 (FY13), showing a growth of 6.37 percent or $692.83 million when compared with $10,876.99 million received during the same period of last ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Ministry of Pakistan on Tuesday issued a travel advisory for all citizens traveling to India.Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement that more than 600 pilgrims who are scheduled to visit Ajmer Sharif for the annual Urs this month might also be at serious risk. He ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan and the federal government on Monday expressed their inability to grant voting right to overseas Pakistanis in the upcoming elections.The petitions of PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Ch Nasir Iqbal regarding grant of right to vote to overseas Pakistanis ...

Supreme Court (SC) has directed Attorney General (AG) to hold joint meeting with government, Election Commission, NADRA and other stakeholders for enactment of legislation on temporary basis to make overseas Pakistanis part of electoral process.A 3-member bench of SC headed by the Chief Justice of ...

PML-N President Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday called for the implementation of the Supreme Court’s order for giving voting rights to overseas Pakistanis.“Overseas Pakistanis, who send billions of dollars in remittances each year, are our major asset,” the former PM told a delegation ...

The Election Commission has decided to give the right of vote to the overseas Pakistani and the decision will be implemented through Presidential Ordinance.According to media reports, the decision was taken in a meeting held in Islamabad Thursday with Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. ...

All ministries have assured their complete cooperation regarding ongoing efforts to render voting rights to overseas Pakistanis, ECP Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed said on Wednesday.Speaking to reporters after attending a key meeting on voting rights of overseas Pakistanis at the ECP office, Ahmed said ...

ISLAMABAD – Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis has drafted first ever National Policy for Overseas Pakistanis with a focus on maximizing welfare and empowerment of Pakistani diaspora working in different countries across the globe. The draft Policy was presented for a review in a national ...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday urged the Pakistani community to work hard to project soft image of Pakistan and further strengthen the bilateral relations between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. During her official visit to the UAE to attend the 10th session of the Joint ...

According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan most Pakistanis see Inflation and Unemployment as key problems at national level.A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked in their opinion, which is the most important ...

According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan 91% of Pakistanis say recent Price Hike in Petrol and Diesel has directly affected them either severely (65%) or moderately (26%).A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was ...

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday decided to allow overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes in upcoming parliamentary elections. Following the decision the overseas Pakistanis will now able to cast their vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections through postal ballots. The ...

According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 77% of Pakistanis claim their family custom is to marry within the extended family.A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked in their family, is there a trend of ...

As many as 7,691 Pakistanis and 32,644 Bangladeshis were found to be overstaying in India even after their visas expired, a Right to Information (RTI) reply has revealed, Indian media reported on Monday. The information was given by Indian ministry of home affairs (MHA), foreigners division, in ...

Police in Birmingham were struggling to contain swelling anger within the Asian community after a hit-and-run by suspected rioters killed three Pakistani young men, two of them brothers. Despite appeals for calm from senior officers, young Asian men vowed to defend their streets once more following ...

The results from a recent Gilani Poll, conducted by Gallup Pakistan, indicated that more than three-fourths (79%) people did not travel by train in the past year, whereas 21 % claimed to have used the train service at least once. A follow-up question to those who had replied in the positive showed ...

Two senior US military commanders on Tuesday told Congress that Pakistanis are aware of Mullah Omars whereabouts in Pakistan. The duo added that Islamabad is paying no heed to the requests made by the United States to locate him. Vice Admiral William McRaven and Lieutenant General John Allen are ...

Kuwait has banned nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from entering the country, according to immigration sources quoted by Kuwaiti media. The ban includes suspending all tourism, visit and trade visas as well as visas sponsored by spouses. They attributed the ban to the ...

About 22,000 civilians have fled intense fighting between government troops and militants in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border, a Pakistan government administrator said. The unpublicized offensive in Mohmand began on January 27 to rout militants accused of targeting security forces ...

The Islamabad-based NGO, Conflict Monitoring Center, revealed the details of the deaths by US drone attacks in its annual report. The report gives detailed accounts on how the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. In 2010, the CIA carried out an unprecedented 132 ...

A series of international terrorism incidents linked to Pakistanis, including a failed car bombing this month in Times Square, has prompted many Pakistanis who once had deep ties to the United States to look elsewhere for work, education and travel. It has also left some Pakistani Americans feeling ...

A lawyer for two Pakistani men arrested in Boston area last week said that there was no evidence linking them to the attempted Times Square bombing, but that the pair attracted the suspicion because days before May 1 incident they had booked a flight from New York to Pakistan on the same route as ...

The Foreign Ministry has submitted a list of imprisoned Pakistanis in some nine countries abroad in Supreme Court today. During the hearing of missing persons case, Justice Javed Iqbal asked about the efforts countrys ambassadors have so far made to get the held Pakistanis released. The Foreign ...

The United Nations Friday offered to provide help in Pakistans Swat region where some 100,000 people need food, clothing and blankets after heavy snowfalls and avalanches blocked roads and left some areas cut off from major towns. So far the Pakistani Army has provided food supplies by helicopter ...

Aafia Siddiqui has fervently appealed to her fellow Pakistanis to remain calm and not to resort to violence following her conviction Wednesday on charge of attempting to kill U.S. military officers while she was in custody in Afghanistan.The appeal was conveyed to U.S.-based Pakistani reporters by ...

Sky-rocketing prices and security concerns are keeping butchers' knives sheathed in Pakistan ahead of the Muslim feast of sacrifice this year, with people buying less livestock for ritual slaughter. Bustling livestock markets in major Pakistani cities are attracting smaller crowds ahead of the Eid ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda number two, on Tuesday urged Pakistanis to support insurgents in their battle against a US-led "crusade" which he said threatened the country's existence. In an eight-minute, 49-second English-language video called "My Muslim Brothers and Sisters in Pakistan," ...

United Nations agencies have lauded the people of Pakistan for their extraordinary generosity in providing food, shelter and other resources to the displaced fellow countrymen. The everyday people of Pakistan are the real heroes of this current crisis in Pakistan, Martin Mogwanja, the UN ...

Holloywood stars Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million, through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to the UN Refugee Agency to help displaced Pakistanis from Swat and other northwestern areas, where a military offensive has been launched to oust the Taliban militants. Jolie has worked ...