ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry of Pakistan along with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) wrote a letter to the US agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking legal assistance to further probe into the Axact fake degree scam, officials said Monday...
According to interior ministry officials, the letter was sent to the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan which will be sent to the Pakistan Embassy in the United States to be...
The alleged spot-fixing scandal followed by suspension of cricketers Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif besides the arrest and subsequent release of Nasir Jamshed and a bookie named Yousuf in London has rocked the second Pakistan Super League (PSL) in Dubai recently...
Former Pakistan opener Nasir, who allegedly set up the Sharjeel and Khalid’s meeting with the bookies in the UAE, faced the wrath and was immediately fired by his...
Warnings spread across social media and instant messaging services in Pakistan the past week as a notorious phone call scam resurfaced, targeting numbers across cellular networks...
Scores of citizens reported receiving phone calls from international unknown numbers — a tell-tale sign of the Wangiri or one-call scam which calls people in the hope that they will return the call and be charged high call rates...
KARACHI: A federal anti-corruption court here on Monday granted interim pre-arrest bail to former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani until Oct 12 in a multi-billion rupee scam case in the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP)...
Know more: PPP breathes fire as warrants issued for Gilani, FahimAround 70 cases pertaining to a trade subsidy scam against two former chairmen, the former chief executive and other senior...
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday witnessed a heated debate over the issue of fake degree scam involving the IT firm, Axact, as some senators assailed the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) for having failed to keep a check on the activities of companies registered with it...
He said the country was already facing an image problem and this fake degree scam had brought more...
KARACHI: To address the job crisis for media professionals at Bol TV which emerged after Axact scandal, the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) announced a policy of hiring back ‘as many media professionals as possible’ by member channels of the association...
Also read: Bol TV asked to wait for clearance of Axact“As the representative body of electronic media in Pakistan, PBA is looking after the welfare and development of...
The scam began in June 2013 and continued through December 2015...
This was the period when the Pakistani community in the United States felt particularly vulnerable because of the rapidly deteriorating US-Pakistan relations and some of them were easily persuaded to believe that they need to pay the scammers to avoid arrest...
Around 60,000 students had appeared in the examination all over the province and the paper-leak scam had investigating agencies on their toes...
Mr Hussain is the head of the committee which probed the scam...
Two senior executives of a collapsed peer-to-peer lender were sentenced to life in prison and 24 others punished over what has been called China's biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, state media reported on Tuesday...
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent operation where investors are promised quick returns on their investments but are actually paid from the investments of new investors instead of legitimate business activities
Before Mr Abbasi, he said, former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif too had made innumerable promises to people of Sindh during his visit to the province which he never bothered to fulfill, said Mr Shah at a press conference at the Pakistan Peoples Party media cell in Clifton on Sunday...
Mr Shah said without naming Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief that the opposition wanted to replace Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly...
QUETTA: Taking notice of reports about illegal allotment of precious government land in Gwadar, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated investigations into what it has termed a multi-billion scam...
Initial investigations had revealed that the people involved in the scam had earlier got 12,000 acres in the city allotted for themselves, they said...
LAHORE: Pakistan’s newly appointed Test captain Sarfraz Ahmed said on Saturday that he believes in setting short targets and the first target is to win the upcoming two-Test series against Sri Lanka...
”Commenting on the composition of Pakistan Test side without its retired stalwarts Younis Khan and Misbah, Sarfraz said: “Yes the absence of Younis and Misbah will surely make a difference and it will take some time to fill their gap......
“As a result of this scheme, from in or about 2006, through in or about May 2015 when authorities in Pakistan shut down Axact, Axact collected at least $140 million through US based bank accounts from tens of thousands of individuals around the world,” reads the indictment as it describes the scheme in considerable detail...
4 million Umra scam was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Hyderabad crime circle team after his plea for the confirmation of protective bail was rejected by the Mirpurkhas district and sessions court on Wednesday...
Also read: Co-accused in Rs104 million Modaraba scam arrestedA special FIA team raided his travel agency located on Sir Syed Road about 15 days ago and detained its manager but Naved Memon was not found...
Ehtesab judge Hayat Ali Shah ruled that the court could not extend the concession of bail to the petitioners including a tehsildar Mohammad Ghulam, a patwari Kamran, girdawar Daud Khan and a beneficiary of the scam Taj Mohammad as identical petitions were also pending before the Peshawar High Court...
In the instant case a chief coordinating officer of Kohat district council, Noor Daraz Khattak, the father of MPA of Pakistan...