A woman was killed and five others sustained injuries when a vehicle of the US embassy collided with a car in Islamabad on Sunday, police said...
The accident took place near Faisal Chowk on Margalla Road when the US embassy vehicle, a Toyota Land Cruiser, collided with the car coming from the other direction...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked more than 16...
7 million connections as the deadline for the biometric SIM verification ends on Sunday...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered verification of voter thumb impressions and counterfoils in Lahore's NA-125 constituency, where Railways Minister Saad Rafique of the PML-N had defeated Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Hamid Khan in the 2013 general elections...
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali directed the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to submit a report on vote...
MULTAN: Scores of students of architecture and building department of Bahauddin Zakariya University’s Engineering College on Monday protested against what they said non-verification of their degrees...
They said the students were neither able to get admission to MSc Engineering nor they were getting employment due to the non-verification of their degrees...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Tuesday asked the home department to take measures for the installation of a biometric verification system and a video surveillance of every polling station in the Azizabad constituency of NA-246 to ensure “free, fair and transparent” election on April 23...
In a letter to the home department, the paramilitary force suggested that the biometric verification system of the National Database and...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali on Friday vowed he will not back down from his decision to re-verify the identity cards of all Pakistanis, and reiterated that he will ensure the mammoth task is completed in the next six months...
ISLAMABAD: The government has set itself an ambitious target of revalidating the family trees of around 25 million households in two months, but progress on this front has been slow, due to a lack of connectivity between the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and cellular companies...
7 million text messages have been received at the 8008 short code ever since the re-verification drive was launched on July 1...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday received an application asking the court to intervene and order the government to voice its concern against Saudi Arabia contracting out biometric verification of Haj and Umrah pilgrims to an Indian firm...
On November 3, Saudi Arabia had modified its Haj and Umrah laws to make biometric verification compulsory for pilgrims...
MANSEHRA: Travel agents and traders have warned they will stage protests and observe a complete shutdown strike next Friday if the government doesn’t abandon the new biometric verification system for the intending Haj and Umrah pilgrims...
Association president Amir Faheem said under the new system, the people wanting to go to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj or Umrah would have to go to designated centres in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed death-row prisoner Shafqat Hussain’s petition seeking his age verification to avail the benefit of Juvenile Justice System Ordinance...
LAHORE: The election tribunal on Tuesday ordered the verification of thumbprints in the PP-160 and NA-128 constituencies in a petition submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Karamat Ali Khokhar, reported DawnNews...
The election tribunal has ordered verification of thumbprints gathered from all polling stations in these two constituencies within a month, and has ordered that a report be provided to tribunal judge Kazim Ali Malik... ...
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday detained the provincial excise secretary and the anti-corruption establishment director on corruption charges...
Informed sources told Dawn that NAB had issued notices to the officers to appear before the bureau to record their statements but they reportedly did not go there
LAHORE: Two more constituencies from Lahore will go through the voters’ thumb verification test as per orders of an election tribunal here on Tuesday...
ISLAMABAD: All cellular companies operating in the country have completed biometric verification of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) within the final deadline given to them by the interior ministry...
A blocked SIM can be re-activated within that period, following biometric verification of the card...
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of people, whose Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC) were blocked on suspicion, have been rattled by slow verification process of their documents at the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) centres in Peshawar...
People daily reach these centres before dawn, but only few ‘lucky’ of them get the chance to enter the centre for verification of their document...