I had thought that when we moved from London to the countryside, we would be entertaining a lot less...
I couldn’t have been more wrong as many members of the lady wife’s vast circle of friends and family come to Dorset in the summer
RAWALPINDI: A prize bond dealer was robbed of bonds valuing Rs2...
Waqar Ahmed, who is associated with a trading company in Raja Bazaar, was going to office after purchasing 186 prize bonds worth Rs15,000 each from the State Bank of Pakistan on The Mall...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday launched first-ever registered premium prize bond...
He said Rs80 million is the first prize for this premium bond of Rs40,000...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a set of petitions challenging the federal government’s decision to discontinue Rs7,500 prize bonds two days before the schedule draw...
They said the draw of the prize bonds was scheduled for May 2, but the government issued a notification on April 29 announcing discontinuation of the bond...
“Pakistan cricket as a microcosm of the entire country...
”After Pakistan lost to India in a World Cup match yet again in 2019, I wrote the aforementioned line in a column and it hit home for a number of Dawn readers...
KARACHI: The city police authorities have decided to withdraw around 1,700 personnel from security of senior officials, politicians and VIPs in order to enhance security of Muharram-related mourning processions and majalis, and to provide security to around 40,000 individuals of the Dawoodi Bohra community from over 40 countries who are in the city to attend the Ashra-i-Mubaraka...
With the beginning of Muharram, the security...
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president was given VIP protocol on his arrival after almost a month-long stay in London...
Earlier, a Pakistan International Airlines flight (PK-786) carrying Mr Sharif landed at Benazir Bhutto International Airport at around 8...
Former Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Monday rejected claims that he has been receiving VIP treatment in jail...
Upon his arrival at the court, Memon rejected claims of VIP treatment and challenged those who believed so to "try and stay in jail for two days"...
ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it would offer laptops to business-class travellers after Britain and the United States banned large electronic devices from the cabin of flights from certain countries...
Washington has barred all electronic devices larger a mobile phone on direct flights to the United States from 10 airports in seven Middle Eastern countries and Turkey, only allowing them to be transported in hold luggage
LAHORE: Over 6,000 policemen from the operations wing of Lahore police are guarding VIPs, VVIPs and their families, leaving people at the mercy of outlaws and terrorists...
Out of the 6,000, 2,000 policemen have been permanently designated to protect personalities they are not authorised to, including politicians, national and provincial lawmakers, ministers, bureaucrats, retired senior police officers, judges and their families
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has advised newly appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Jawwad S...
Khawaja to avail of VIP protocol and security in the wake of prevailing law and order situation in the country...
ISLAMABAD: All parties talk about ending the VIP culture, but when it comes to perks and privileges for themselves they flock together like the birds of a feather...
“This House recommends that the government may extend usual facilities of VIPs to all ex-members of Majlis-i-Shoora (Parliament) of Pakistan, including the gratis / blue passports to their spouses and children,” reads the resolution...
But when does high-profile security start to unnecessarily and unfairly impinge on the people’s rights? Of the hundreds of policemen idling around state residences and the dozens of vehicles in fast-moving convoys on cordoned off roads – how much of that is about pomp and display and how much truly about necessary, efficient and cost-minded security?At its root, the problem is that those making decisions about VIP lifestyles and security are...
“This House recommends that the government may extend usual facilities of VIPs to all ex-members of Majlis-i-Shoora (parliament) of Pakistan, including the gratis/blue passports to their spouses and children,” reads the resolution that was dropped in anticipation of public criticism of the move...
Earlier, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz informed the house that Pakistan could consider taking India to the...
Yet the upper-middle class gentleman, who uses his social standing to negotiate his way out of a traffic fine on his way to the airport, is incensed when his flight is delayed for a VIP...
Why?Haven’t we all signed up for a system where each is entitled to grab whatever is in their power, common good be damned?This VIP culture is a consequence of a social, political, economic system that produces inequality at every step...