Pakistan has asked the Facebook management to link opening of Facebook accounts to mobile numbers to overcome the issue of fake accounts, said a Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) official...
“Mobile numbers are verified through biometric verification system in the country...
Social media giant Facebook has refused to comply with Pakistan's request to link all Facebook accounts with phone numbers, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Saturday...
Pakistan had made the request when Facebook Vice President Joel Kaplan met with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan last week...
KARACHI: Pakistan ranks number three in the world with the highest prevalence of child and forced labour despite a significant decline in the number of child labourers recorded worldwide, it emerged at a seminar on Friday...
Titled ‘Elimination of child labour in Pakistan’, the seminar was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) at the Sindh Boys Scouts Association’s headquarters...
After a dramatic day four of the first Test against England, Misbah-ul-Haq-led Pakistan won their first Test in two decades at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground...
Due to their phenomenal performances during the match, Pakistan’s Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and Yasir Shah made it to the honours board with the latter being named the Man-of-the-Match...
KOLKATA: Pakistan has trailed its eastern neighbour in corporatising sports and roping in sponsors, says a top sports marketer in the country who blames its various federations and the government in equal measure for this...
“Sponsorship in sports is still a far cry in Pakistan,” rues Naveed Haider Khan, marketing consultant to Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), which has had some success in hosting foreign teams in recent times... ...
Any discussion on the lack of corporatisation in Pakistan finds its way to the lack of avenues of capital for entrepreneurs...
Considering the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to Pakistan’s GDP — around 40 per cent — and their share in non-agriculture labour force at over 80pc, it’s not a segment that can be continuously ignored if broad-based development is desired...
RVSZKE (Hungary): Europe was increasingly divided over its refugee crisis on Thursday as record numbers of migrants streamed through the Balkans into Hungary, forcing Austria to suspend cross-border train services...
Many have endured treacherous sea journeys across the Mediterranean --- most fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan or Pakistan and hoping to reach Germany...
In other words, we, generally, love to enthusiastically boast about inflated numbers on the pattern of how the more insecure amongst us like to drop names...
Amidst all the numbers that these animals bring to the grand exhibition in the city, there is every now and then a reminder of how the spirit quite abhors ostentation and too much discussion about the price...
ISLAMABAD: To curb snatching of mobile phones and their trade, the Sindh government approached the interior ministry on Wednesday for registration of mobile phones against CNIC numbers...
In this regard, the Sindh home department wrote to the interior secretary, “A meeting for curbing sale and purchase of snatched mobile phones was held on July 31 under the chairmanship of the home minster with all stakeholders, including...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday threw down the gauntlet to opposition parties, saying that if they wanted to unseat Syed Khursheed Shah, they should come up with the required numbers...
We do not fear any democratically-adopted procedure to change the leader of the opposition, but those who want to replace Khursheed Shah must show their numbers,” Qamar Zaman Kaira told reporters following a meeting at the...
AS Pakistan enters the next round of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under Post-Programme Monitoring (PPM), the Ministry of Finance has revised crucial financial data through a belated release of the July-September report on the country’s fiscal operations...
The PPM engagements, running from Dec 6 to Dec 14, are likely to see the publication of Pakistan’s debt management report pending since March...
FOR those conscientious Pakistanis working for the social and economic progression of the disenfranchised, the provisional data representing persons with disability from the 2017 Population Census of Pakistan was, quite simply, appalling...
Statistical misinformation: According to the provisional data, there are currently less than one million persons with disability residing in Pakistan (0...
PTI CLAIM: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Lower Dir chapter on Tuesday said the upcoming by-election on vacant tehsil and union council seats in the district would be a test case for the party...
MINGORA: Tourists and trekkers have been flocking to a little-known lake at Kangar Danda in the upper gorges of Sulatanr valley here to enjoy its mysteriously dark and icy waters...
The serene lake is located in a deep narrow gorge surrounded by huge mountains with a long glacier at its one end
ISLAMABAD: The social media networking site Facebook has termed Pakistan’s request to link all accounts to individual phone numbers “improbable”...
“Pakistan had suggested that Facebook accounts be linked with users’ mobile phone numbers...