KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti court on Wednesday sentenced a Shia lawmaker to 14 years and six months in absentia for remarks deemed highly offensive to fellow Gulf states Saudi Arabia and Bahrain...
Abdulhameed Dashti received 11 years and six months for insulting Saudi Arabia and three years for insulting Bahrain in another case...
The Airport Security Force (ASF) on Thursday foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs to Bahrain, seizing a kilogramme of heroin from a passenger travelling from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad...
According to the ASF, the drugs were recovered from the passenger's luggage during a security check-in for Gulf Air 771 at the Islamabad airport...
RAWALPINDI: A United States (US) Transport Security Administration (TSA) team on Monday visited Islamabad International Airport (IIA) to conduct final inspection and give clearance to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to start direct flights to the US...
According to sources, the team will also visit Jinnah International Airport Karachi and Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore...
RAWALPINDI: Despite being one of the sensitive airports, the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) does not have bomb detection and bomb disposal squads...
The intelligence intimated that since the IIAP is a sensitive airport covered by greenwoods and located at a quite long distance from Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Attock, it should have rescue teams available 24 hours...
KARACHI: Young filmmakers from the neighbourhood of Lyari made it big on the international stage when they bagged the first position in the category of short films at the International Youth Creativity Award in Bahrain...
The short film Jaawar — meaning ‘ongoing situation’ in the Balochi language — won first prize at the awards sanctioned by Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the member of Bahraini royal family and president of the...
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) officer assaulted three Airport Security Forces (ASF) officials at Karachi Airport on Thursday...
The ASF guard involved in the incident has filed a first information report at the Airport Police Station against the PIA officer, stating the woman was "creating a hindrance for an official, stopping him from performing his duty...
Dubai airport was the world's busiest for international passengers in 2017 for the fourth year running, with 88...
International traffic at the UAE airport increased by 4...
President Arif Alvi attended the inauguration ceremony of Istanbul Grand International Airport on Monday while on a three-day visit to Turkey at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
President Erdogan, while opening the airport ? which his government says will eventually become the largest in the world ? with great fanfare, said it would be "the pride of our country and an example to the world...
KARACHI: Five more Covid-19 positive cases were detected among international travellers arriving at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, on Wednesday, bringing the total number of such cases in two weeks to 34, health department sources told Dawn...
Most of these passengers arriving from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq had been quarantined at the isolation centre in Bhitaiabad, the rest at the Airport Hotel while one of them had...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday inaugurated the Skardu International Airport and Jaglot-Skardu road during a day-long visit to the region...
The airport in Skardu was previously only operational for domestic flights...
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak here on Tuesday launched a health insurance scheme under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “Sehat Sahulat Programme” for the deserving and poor patients in the province...
Ambassador of Germany Ms Ina Lepel, health minister Shahram Tarakai, Pakistan-based director of KfW, chairperson of State Life Insurance and secretary health also spoke on the occasion...
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed resident insurance companies to issue dollar-denominated insurance policies on a notional basis to meet the condition of foreign lenders and foreign projects undertaken in Pakistan...
The SBP issued on Wednesday a circular addressing all banks and financial institutions to follow the instructions regarding new insurance policies...
ISLAMABAD: The Insurance Division carried out a thematic review of the implementation of SRO 20(I)/2012 dated Jan 11, 2012, requiring insurers to develop detailed procedures to counter the potential threat of use of their services for money laundering...
Moreover, Circular No 8 dated April 7, requires all life insurers to provide information to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on a monthly basis with respect...
LAHORE: A European investment fund has entered into an agreement to acquire a significant minority stake in a Lahore-based general insurance company offering agriculture insurance to over 100,000 farmers in Pakistan...
An announcement issued on Saturday said the InsuResilience Investment Fund, set up by the German Development Bank KfW and managed by Switzerland-based Impact Investment Manager BlueOrchard Finance, will acquire 25 per...
Hurricane Harvey's devastation will be among the costliest of any storm in US history but, with most not covered by insurance, victims are left hoping for government aid and community support...
But in federally designated US flood zones, only 12 per cent of home owners are covered by flood insurance, according to the Insurance Information Institute...