Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
Saudi Arabia launches 96-hour free transit visa
DNA ISLAMABAD, Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Kingdom’s national flag carrier, has announced the launch of a new service that provides guests with even easier access to the Kingdom through a digital integration system that links transit visas with flight tickets. The “Your Ticket Your Visa” service will allow guests to stay in the Kingdom for up to 96 hours, during which they can travel around the Kingdom and perform Umrah. The first-of-its-kind service has been introduced in collaboration with the Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Interior, MinistryRead More
Ambassador Aftab Khokher holds Virtual E-Kachehri
Vienna, JAN 31: /DNA/ -Today, Ambassador Aftab Ahmad Khokher hosted a virtual “E-Kachehri” community meeting as a monthly initiative to engage with the Pakistani community residing in Austria and Slovakia. The purpose of the meeting was to listen and understand concerns of the community and to showcase the Embassy’s commitment to outreach and engagement with them. The Ambassador opened the session by extending his wishes for the new year and expressing his heartfelt condolences for shuhada in the recent terrorist incident in Peshawar. He offered his sympathies to the familiesRead More
Shaping a 21st-century world order amounts to a patchwork
What do Moroccan arms sales to Ukraine, a transnational Russian Iranian transit corridor, and US assistance in developing a Saudi national strategy have in common? Together with this week’s Russian-Iranian financial messaging agreement and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s December visit to Saudi Arabia, they are smaller and bigger fragments of a 21st-century world order in the making that is likely to be bi-polar and populated by multiple middle powers with significant agency and enhanced hedging capabilities. So is the competition between rival US and Chinese technologies for which the jury is still out. For theRead More
OIC condemns Qur’an desecration in Sweden other countries
OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha says govts must take punitive steps recurrence News Desk ISLAMABAD, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened an open-ended Extraordinary Meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on Tuesday to express the organization’s common stance against the recent desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Held at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah, the meeting also discussed the possible actions that the OIC could take against the perpetrators of the despicable Islamophobic attacks. During the meeting, the OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha reiterated hisRead More
NCHR accuses religious affairs ministry of gender discrimination
DNA ISLAMABAD: The National Commission of Human Rights (NCHR) on Tuesday expressed “serious concerns” about the rejection of a female candidate for the Haj director general’s (DG) position, allegedly on the basis of her gender. In December, Saima Sabah, a BS-20 officer of Pakistan Audit and Accounts Service, contended in a petition to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that she had secured first position in a written test for the position by obtaining 71 marks out of 100 but was dropped due to gender discrimination. She had requested the courtRead More
PCB ‘allows’ cricketers to play BPL till February 8
Pakistan players, who had previously been told to ensure their return to Pakistan by February 2, have been allowed to participate in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) till February 8, sources said Tuesday. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) decision is only applicable to those players who are not part of the upcoming exhibition match in Quetta between Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators. Players who are set to participate in the exhibition match on February 5 have been asked to return home by February 2. Earlier, all the playersRead More