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...
However, in an e-mail to VOA, Facebook has confirmed that it has decided to not comply with the request to continue protecting its customers' rights...
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...
Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the social media giant, US media reported on Wednesday...
An exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases — including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain, according to technology news site TechCrunch...
Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar on Tuesday told the Lahore High Court (LHC) that phone numbers which had been traced back to Afghanistan were involved in case of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, whose whereabouts remain unknown since his arrest on May 11...
He made the remarks as the court resumed hearing a plea seeking the recovery of the anchorperson, who was among the individuals apprehended in the wake of protests that...
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...
Germany warned that an EU plan to distribute 160,000 new arrivals among member states was a mere “drop in the ocean”, but it faces stiff opposition from eastern members who say they will not accept binding quotas from...
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...
The bazaars at these annual fairs where the city dweller, the wily buyer, and the villager, the clever seller, engage each other in long patience-testing games aimed at deceiving each other are getting larger...
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...
Pakistan is required to undergo a tight PPM arrangement in view of its outstanding credit exceeding 200 per cent of its quota in addition to annual Article IV consultations...
The government has also been selective in releasing financial data and continues to move goalpostsThe PPM talks are taking place in the absence of a full-time leader of the economic team, which now comprises Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Economic...
To put it simply, an ill-fated journey that began with statistical missteps might culminate in a societal tragedy of epic proportions...
Statistical misinformation: According to the provisional data, there are currently less than one million persons with disability residing in Pakistan (0...
TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir district government in collaboration with the National Book Foundation (NBF) arranged a two-day book fair at the Timergara Rest House that was visited by hundreds of students, teachers and book lovers on Tuesday, the first day of the event...
Ibrash Pasha, a social activist, told Dawn that it was the first book fair in the district, which remained successful on the first day...
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...
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...
Sahil, an organisation working on child abuse cases, compiles data referring it as “cruel numbers” from national and local newspapers to keep the children’s sexual abuse issue alive in the domain of the child protection dialogue...
The “cruel numbers” says that some 3,002 child sexual abuse cases were reported in 2013 and 3,508 in 2014 from across the country...
"Europe must say that it can no longer accommodate so many migrants, it is not possible," he said in extracts from a lunch with foreign media published by Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung...
If we don't do that, people will say: 'Enough, Europe!'" he added, in comments confirmed by his entourage...