On the one hand there is Pakistan’s film industry in need for revival; on the other there are films that dance to a different tune...
The director says he deliberately chose to set the film in India rather than in Pakistan, and terms it “an independent movie produced in India...
The government has issued its first third-gender passport to a transgender activist in Peshawar who hailed the move as a step forward for the community...
Activist Farzana Riaz said the new passport would help her campaign globally on behalf of her community, who are also known as khawajasiras — an umbrella term denoting a third sex that includes transsexuals, transvestites and eunuchs...
London Metropolitan Police have returned Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain's passport, a statement on the party's website says...
Altaf's passport was seized by British authorities during their investigation of a money laundering case in which the MQM supremo was a suspect...
My passport expired last year and I did not dare to think of a renewal, knowing full well the horrors of going to the passport office and doing the khwari...
One fateful Tuesday morning, I finally willed myself to go to the main passport office...
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered that national identity card (CNIC) and passport of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf be unblocked so that he is able to return to the country...
The order was issued after National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Chairman Usman Mobin was spotted sitting in on a full-bench hearing for a separate case by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar...
Saiful Mulook told a news conference in Frankfurt on Tuesday that Aasia was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan last month but she and her family needed a passport to leave the country...
“The answer is first that to leave a country you need a visa or you require a passport of another country,” he added...
The government has decided not to renew the passport of former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif who is currently absconding in London...
The interior ministry stated this in response to a query by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made on February 19 regarding the “request for issuance of new diplomatic passport by the former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif”...
ISLAMABAD: Former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf may have to face a difficult situation after March, because by then his diplomatic passport will have expired and the government seems to be in no mood to renew it anytime soon...
Sources told Dawn that the last diplomatic passport (number AJ0848364) issued to Mr Musharraf from Dubai in 2013 would expire on March 16, 2018...
BELGRADE: Award-winning British actor and director Ralph Fiennes, who portrayed Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, was given a Serbian passport on Sunday for “promoting” the Balkan country...
“I never thought I would become a Serb and now it seems that I am one,” Fiennes said in Serbian during a brief ceremony after President Aleksandar Vucic presented him with the passport and an ID card...
ISLAMABAD: Insufficient budgetary allocations and an inordinate delay in the release of funds for a short-staffed department is an alarming state of affairs and could lead to another passport crisis, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told on Thursday...
Due to non-payment of dues, the Printing Corporation of Pakistan (PCP) can stop the supply of passport booklets at any time, said Usman Akhtar Bajwa, the newly-appointed...
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested the director general of the Karachi Development Authority on Saturday for concealing his government job and falsifying facts to obtain a passport — a charge, if proved, could land him maximum three years in prison...
Officials said that Syed Nasir Abbas, a grade-20 officer, was arrested after a case was registered against him for obtaining a passport by declaring himself a...
The officials insisted the passport condition had been introduced over the growing incidence of the production of forged documents by travellers...
The officials said the administration didn’t have modern technology on Torkham border to detect forged CNICs and therefore, the passport’s production had been made mandatory for all Pakistani nationals for cross-border movement...
ISLAMABAD: The transgender community has welcomed the government’s decision to issue its first passport with a transgender category as an important milestone in the struggle against discrimination...
The government issued a passport last week to transgender activist Farzana Jan with an X to symbolise the “third sex” printed under the gender category of travel document...
LANDI KOTAL: Over 100 Pakistanis holding only computerised national identity cards (CNICs) availed of a rare opportunity to cross over to Pakistan from Afghanistan on Tuesday as authorities had relaxed the rule of passport for a day at the Torkham border...
Sources said that the authorities had received requests from the relatives of a number of Pakistanis stranded in Afghanistan following imposition of passport condition for the...
LAHORE: The applicants who turned up at the Garden Town passport office on Thursday had to face a great deal of inconvenience at the hands of processing staff who kept them on tenterhooks for several hours because of “slow online data processing and their lethargic attitude”...
Rasheed, who turned up at the office for his maiden passport to travel abroad for higher education, expressed utter disappointment saying the government was on...