Tag: Citizenship

The Council of Paris, the governing body of France's capital, unanimously adopted a proposal on Tuesday by the city's mayor, to award honourary citizenship...

Nepalese activists participate in a march demanding equal citizenship rights for men and women in Kathmandu.

Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of...

Bahrain’s government has revoked the citizenship of 31 opposition activists for “undermining state security”. An interior ministry statement published by state media said Article 10...

The Rajasthan government has initiated a process to grant Indian citizenship to 919 Pakistani Hindus who migrated to India before December 31, 2004, the...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday submitted a certificate in the Supreme Court as proof that he had abandoned British citizenship. The certificate...

The Awami National Party (ANP) is demanding a dual citizenship agreement with Afghanistan, which is one of the reasons behind its stiff opposition to...

A green passport isn’t a good enough wedding gift Rights and benefits arising out of citizenship is an essential concept to every legal framework. It...

A conservative senator called Tuesday for the United States to suspend all aid to Pakistan and grant citizenship to a doctor who was jailed...

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has reiterated his claim that he does not have British citizenship. Addressing a ceremony of the UK Pakistan Chamber of...

CNG suspension has become a nightmare for the citizen of twin cities as they face immense difficulties to reach their destinations during load shedding...

More than 700 Pakistanis have acquired Indian citizenship in the last three years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. In a written answer,...

The president of the United Arab Emirates has issued a decree granting citizenship to more than 1,000 children of Emirati women married to foreigners,...

Israeli rights groups and MPs on Thursday denounced a court ruling upholding a law that prevents Palestinians married to Arab Israelis from obtaining Israeli...

The Austrian town of Braunau, Adolf Hitler’s birthplace, has revoked the Nazi dictator’s honorary citizenship — even if he never actually was awarded one....

ISLAMABAD - The government is opposed to the grant of citizenship to the foreigners who are married to Pakistani women as it believes the permission would pave the way for back-door entry of anti-state elements into the country.
Interior Secretary Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior on Monday that the same kind of proposal was rejected by the then standing committee on interior and the law ministry in 2005 on similar grounds of

ISLAMABAD: The Upper House of the Parliament was informed on Tuesday that around 203 foreigners had been given citizenship of Pakistan from 2008 hitherto.
State Minister for Interior Tasneem Qureshi, answering questions said citizenship had been granted in accordance with the provisions of Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 and Naturalization Act 1926 after observing all legal formalities, including security clearance.
Giving year-wise breakup, the minister said around 134