KARACHI:-Pakistan's experienced pace bowler, Umar Gul's departure for Australia to undergo surgery on his injured knee has been delayed due to visa problems. The delay in his departure for Australia has dimmed chances of Gul recovering in time for the tour to Zimbabwe in July. Sources close to the ...

islamabad - Pakistan on Wednesday urged United Arab Emirates (UAE) to allow multiple-entry business visas to Pakistani businessmen for Dubai and facilitate exports of meat and poultry to UAE from Pakistan.The demand was made by Federal Minister for Commerce and Textile, Maqbool Rahimtoola during ...

The students and teachers of all the institutes in Pakistan are informed that there is permission required to enter Islamabad! Maybe we need a visa? We had never heard such information, but were informed of this, when our college arranged a tour to Islamabad. On April 27, we were stopped on certain ...

Government of Pakistan on Saturday issued visa to four family members of the Indian spy Sarabjit Singh, who suffered head injuries in a minor dispute on Friday at Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore.Pakistan Government has issued visa of Sarabjit Singh sister Dalbir Kaur, wife Sikh Biar Preet Kaur including ...

LAHORE – The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan has imposed visa restrictions on local exporters who applied for participating in AAPEX, a fair in the United States.The industry circles, expressing disappointment over poor performance and lack of support from TDAP, which instead of ...

NEW DELHI - The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has given one month extension to Pakistani Hindus, who have refused to go back to their country due to terror incidents there. Reports Tuesday claimed that the Indian ministry gave one month extension to the Pakistani Hindus after their ...

NEW DELHI - Giving a new fillip to its relations with Pakistan, India has started visa on arrival facility for senior citizens of that country.The facility, which was supposed to start on January 15 as part of the new liberalised visa pact between the neighbours, was suspended following the killing ...

Minister for Interior, Rehman Malik on Monday asked India to reconsider suspending new visa regime for elderly persons as this process was initiated to facilitate citizens of both the countries."I would request Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh and my Indian counterpart, Sushilkumar Shinde to ...

LAHORE - SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an apex body of chambers in the region, Saturday strongly demanded the facility of visa on arrival in SAARC countries to boost socio-economic prosperity in the South Asian countries which possess 12 per cent of global natural resources.In his key ...

LAHORE: A local resident has appealed to the Federal Investigations Agency (FIA) director to initiate legal action against a visa consultant who prepared a fake ‘appeal letter’ and submitted it to the British High Commission in Islamabad. The High Commission rejected her visa appeal ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan-IMF technical talks, scheduled from Wednesday in Dubai, could not start even on Thursday as Pakistani officials could not get visas, officials informed The Nation on Thursday.The talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under Post Programme Monitoring (PPM) were ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association (PBSA) confirmed on Friday that the Indian team has been granted visas and they may be flying in here today (Saturday) for taking part in Jubilee Insurance Seven-nation International Snooker Championship being staged at a local hotel from ...

KARACHI - India has named two-member team to appear here in the Six-nation International Snooker Championship but their participation is subject to issuance of visa in time. Yasin Reza Merchant and M Faisal Khan have been picked to play for India in the championship which will be played here from ...

CAPE TOWN - A South African court on Friday dismissed a case brought by two opposition parties challenging the government’s failure to grant the Dalai Lama a visa last year.The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader had sought a visa to attend fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu’s ...

LONDON - Mansoor Ijaz has obtained visa from Pakistan High Commission in London, reported a private TV channel on Thursday.Mansoor Ijaz, the central character in memogate scandal, personally visited the office of Pakistan High Commission in London where he was issued the visa along with summons ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistans missions abroad have collected an amount of around Rs 13.361 billion for providing visa and other consular services during the last five years. As per data, the amount collected through such services included Rs. 3.572 billion in financial year 2005-06, Rs. 2.297 billion ...

LAHORE (APP)- While agreeing with the LCCI proposal to ease visa procedures, Indian Commercial attache Arvind Saxena has assured that a businessmen-specific liberal and flexible visa regime would be in place very soon. He was talking to LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh and VP Saeeda Nazar at the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Pakistan-born Australian batsman Usman Khawaja on Tuesday said he was being refused a visa into India for next month's Champions League Twenty20 tournament because of his country of birth. Khawaja vented his anger on social media site Twitter, saying India's visa department "need to ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - In order to facilitate the intending AJK / Pakistani applicants with comfortable and luxurious environment during the course of submission of British visa applications by the local customers, the state-run UK Border Agency has launched a premium lounge service at its Visa application ...

KARACHI - Standard Chartered Pakistan announces the launch of the PIA Platinum Visa Debit Card, says a press release. The PIA Platinum Visa Debit Card is the first and only co-branded debit card in Pakistan and the Standard Chartered Group. The card is offered only to the Banks Priority Banking ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The first meeting of the Joint Working Group of India and Pakistan was held here for two days on Thursday and Friday to examine the modalities for streamlining visa procedures and to finalise the draft of Bilateral Visa Agreement. According to a joint statement by the Foreign ...

Patna - Seeking to push forward the Indian governments initiative of improving ties with Pakistan, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue visa to Pakistani painter Md Awan, whose application was rejected earlier this year, reported Indian ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela condemned on Thursday the United States revocation of its ambassadors visa as an imperial move by President Barack Obamas government, saying the measure should be immediately overturned. In the latest flare-up between the ideological foes, Washington withdrew the visa ...

FAVOURING free flow of information between India and Pakistan, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said some progress has been made about visa restrictions but still there are hindrances which can be addressed. There should be a free flow of information. Naturally, when I am ...

KARACHI - Civil Society on Friday condemned denial of Karachi visa for Asia-Gaza Solidarity (AGS) caravan. The Asia Gaza Solidarity Caravan Sindh chapter condemned the denial of visa for Asia Gaza Solidarity Caravan to Karachi and Quetta. A meeting of Sindh Chapter comprising social, political and ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah has reportedly agreed in principle to authorise Pakistan Overseas Employment Promoters Association (POEPA) to drop passports in boxes for endorsement of visas by Saudi Consulate by scrapping ad-hoc arrangements. Sources said ...

RAWALPINDI - The British High Commissioner to Pakistan Adam Thomson said that Britain was keen to invest in Pakistan to strengthen economic relations between the two countries. The travel advisory on Pakistan would be left soon while the visa policy for business community of Pakistan would also be ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japans Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. is headed for a market capitalisation of 15.5 billion dollars after its April 1 initial public offering, the worlds biggest since Visas in 2008. Japans second-biggest life insurer will be listed at the start of next month as it will be ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indias Twitter-loving junior foreign minister has used the microblogging site to criticise his governments move to tighten rules for long-term tourist visas, his account showed Monday. Shashi Tharoor questioned the logic behind the tougher rules, claiming that the gunmen behind ...

PAKISTAN has refused visa to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti for attending a conference to be held in Islamabad from Monday (today), reported Press Trust of India (PTI) on Sunday. No official reason was given for declining the visa to Mehbooba whose PDP is the main ...