Join our Whatsapp channel At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat, carrying many Pakistanis, capsized off Greece’s southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, with witnesses saying many were still missing as search operations continued. ADVERTISEMENT image/ svg+ xml Openclipart Close Button 2013-09-18T11: 23: 45 A round black close button with a white, thick, X in the center.... It was one of the deadliest boat disasters ever in the Mediterranean Sea and there wer

Join our Whatsapp channelISLAMABAD: As many as 17, 321 Pakistanis are currently detained in prisons in different countries of the world, with a majority of them detained in jails of Middle East countries, officials informed a parliamentary committee here on Monday. The meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakista-nis and Human Resource Deve-l-o-pment was held to discuss problems being faced by under-trial/ convicted Pakistanis in different countries of the world.... Senator Zee--sha

Join our Whatsapp channel The number of Pakistanis killed in a Greek shipwreck last week has risen to four, the Foreign Office said on Monday.At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat, carrying many Pakistanis, capsized off Greece’s southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, with witnesses saying many were still missing as search operations continued.... It was one of the deadliest boat disasters ever in the Mediterranean Sea and there were at least 209 Pakistanis

Join our Whatsapp channel The bodies of 16 Pakistanis have been recovered with as many as 63 Pakistanis suspected on board a vessel that capsized off the coast of Libya, the Foreign Office( FO) said on Tuesday. The incident comes on the heels of a similar tragedy last month in which a boat carrying 80 passengers capsized near Morocco.... While the identities of at least 13 Pakistanis killed in the incident were confirmed, over 40 citizens were reportedly murdered by African human traffickers on

Afghan businessmen have rejected Pakistan's demand to conduct bilateral trade in the Pakistani rupee in the future.A number of people have reacted to a report in a Pakistani newspaper that said business deals in Afghanistan should be based on Pakistani rupees, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. Daily Jang, a Pakistani newspaper in a report quoted the country's Finance Minister Shawkat Tareen as saying that Afghanistan faced a shortage of dollar reserves and that would be the reason Afghanistan would

Join our Whatsapp channel The Foreign Office( FO) on Monday condemned what it called the “ increasingly racist and Islamophobic ” comments directed at Pakistanis in the UK, emphasising the deep relations between both countries as well as the contributions of British Pakistanis. The statement came after tech billionaire Elon Musk entered a contentious debate surrounding the term “ Asian grooming gangs ”, with remarks sparking concerns of perpetuating harmful anti-Pakistani stereotypes. Musk attac

VR helps Indians and Pakistanis visit their lost homesVR helps Indians and Pakistanis visit their lost homes Close India's violent and devastating partition in 1947 displaced some 15 million people and left at least a million dead.... The project's founders hope that reconnecting people with their pasts will spur dialogue for peace.... Video by Bushra Owaisy and Gaurav RajpootShow more Published 6 hours ago Section BBC News Subsection India....

LONDON — Wasim Khan has spent his life immersed in Pakistani cricket, even as he spent very little of that life in Pakistan.... As the son of Pakistani immigrants to Britain, Khan grew up listening to his father, his uncles and his cousins talk passionately about cricket late into the night.... He was even when he started to show his own talent for the sport, a talent with the bat that earned him a place in England’s under-19 team....

Responding to news of the strikes on Sunday, Pakistani officials said that cross-border attacks from Afghanistan on its security forces had risen dramatically and urged the Taliban to secure the border area from militants. Reporting From Afghanistan Inside the Fall of Kabul:？... On Patrol: A group of Times journalists spent 12 days with a Taliban police unit in Kabul.... A Times reporter who served as a Marine in Afghanistan returned to interview a Taliban commander he once fought....

Image caption, Husnain Shah is one of 16 men sharing a police cell in Pakistan's Punjab province-all are alleged to have been involved in human smuggling By Caroline Davies BBC News Thousands of Pakistanis are taking the Libya route to seek work in Europe.... Sweat runs down our backs; the officer's temple shines with it. Down a short open corridor, past rooms filled with precariously balanced papers, we are shown a small cell.... Nearly 300 Pakistanis thought to have been on board are missing