ISLAMABAD – Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis registered a substantial 27 per cent growth in the outgoing fiscal year 2021-22, the fastest rate of expansion since FY2003. The remittances, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), have helped boost the country’s currency reserves ...

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen has sought to send a delegation to the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in line with the UN and OIC resolutions. During a meeting with India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ausaf Sayeed in Jeddah, ...

The Pentagon said Friday it was cutting the number of troops and air defense units deployed to the Middle East link, confirming a Wall Street Journal report that eight Patriot batteries link were being moved out from the region. The move comes as President Joe Biden's administration seeks to ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's leadership has extended its best wishes to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud for a safe and successful Hajj operation this year. Pakistan’s Foreign Office, in a statement link on Tuesday, said that the country supports the Saudi ...

A multinational joint air exercise Tuwaiq 2 involving several Arab countries has begun in central Saudi Arabia. Saudi ministry of defense said the two-week exercise “aims to ensure the highest levels of readiness, and achieve operational compatibility and integration. Commander of the Prince ...

The Pakistani embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has reportedly introduced a new app called ‘Pakistan In Saudi Arabia’ for the Pakistani expatriates in the kingdom. Various applications and queries, including those about the registration of accommodations as well as sponsorships, can now be ...

Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Nawaf bin Saeed Al-Maliki, has assured Sindh’s Chief Minister (CM), Syed Murad Ali Shah, that he will discuss the issue of the approval of the Chinese coronavirus vaccines for Hajj pilgrims with the concerned authorities so that people from Pakistan may ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia has cancelled the Hajj pilgrimage for its citizens for the second year in a row due to concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic. "Due to the pandemic and for the safety of the pilgrims, the government has decided that this year it won't allow Indonesian pilgrims to go ...

TEHRAN - Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday that the Islamic republic is continuing talks link regional rival Saudi link Arabia in a "good atmosphere link," in the hope of reaching a "common understanding". Media reports last month revealed that Iranian and Saudi link officials met in ...

Pakistan has strongly condemned the attacks launched towards King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia by Houthi militia. In a statement today (Saturday), Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said it is commendable that coalition forces intercepted and destroyed all of them. He said ...