Tag: Consulate

Over one hundred of the Punjab’s media representatives were invited on Friday evening to a special screening of the George Clooney directed movie “Good...

US Consulate General Lahore Public Affairs Officer Brinille Ellis honoured students graduating from a US-funded English language programme at Jamia Fatmia Taleem-ul-Quran Madrassa. Brinille...

The US Consulate General, Lahore signed a $10,000 (Rs 870,000) grant with the Lahore Press Club to improve the capacity for journalism. The...

A get together was held in honour of newly-appointed US Lahore Counsul General Nina Maria Fite at her residence. It was an elegant event,...

Afghanistan consulate in Peshawar has once again refused to issue visas to twenty-four women belonging to Punjab who want to visit a Muslim preaching...

Provincial government has suspended 5 police men including 2 officers for showing negligence in duty during attack on US consulate. Police sources told...

In an effort to ensure better security, the Saudi Consulate in Karachi has decided to deploy private security along with the law enforcement agencies...

The Foreign Security Cell of Karachi police has beefed up vigilance of consulates in the city after a hand-grenade attack on the Saudi Consulate...

Drive-by attackers lobbed two grenades at the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on Wednesday, in a first possible violent reaction to...

LAHORE - "Pakistanis should take to the streets to provide justice to our family," Mashood-ur-Rehman, brother of Obaid-ur-Rehman, invoked protesters outside the US Consulate and the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday.
The protest against Raymond Davis's release at the US Consulate was joined by the Jama'at-e-Islami, the Pakistan People's Front and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) student and political wings. Slogans and stones: Protestors threw stones on the policemen and burnt US

LAHORE - The security of the US consulate has been handed over to the Pakistan Rangers, while the provincial capital's security has been beefed up to curb violence during demonstrations against the release of Raymond Davis on Thursday.
Sources in the Lahore Police told Pakistan Today that about three to four thousand policemen have been deployed to secure important places in the city. They said that extensive security measures have been adopted by the Lahore Police to especially

LAHORE - The US Consulate Lahore on Tuesday again refused to handover to the investigation team the officials and the vehicle that ran over and killed a Pakistani youth to death in the Raymond Davis shooting incident. US consulate officials even denied entry to the investigation team into the consulate's premises.
It was learnt that the Lahore Police's investigation team, headed by Civil Lines SP Investigation Ali Malik, and Lytton Raod DSP Liquat Safdar visited the US Consulate

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the Punjab Police to take action in accordance with the law against the US Consulate driver who ran over a citizen, Ibadur Rahman, while ostensibly trying to rescue Raymond Davis.
While hearing a petition by Ijazul Rehman, the deceased's brother, seeking free and fair investigation into the matter, LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry also asked authorities to record the statements of the complainant (Ijazul Rehman) and

LAHORE - The Punjab government has dispatched an official letter to the federal government to play its role for the immediate custody of the US Consulate driver and car which ran over and killed Ubaidur Rehman in a bid to help Raymond Davis, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.
According to sources, the letter sought federal government's help to unearth mystery behind the movement and the killing spree of Davis and his accomplices, who managed to escape from the scene. The letter

LAHORE - The Lahore Police has finally requested the US Consulate's deputy chief of protocol in writing to hand over the staffers involved in running over a youth in Lahore and the vehicle which was used in the incident.
A senior police officer, said on condition of anonymity, that the investigation team probing the incident had formally written a letter to the Protocol Deputy Chief of the US Consulate in Lahore for immediate custody of the officials who had run over Ubaidur

KARACHI - The US Consulate General in Karachi on Tuesday shifted to a new building located on the Mai Kolachi Bypass.
According to a statement, the new consulate includes an American Centre designed to increase interaction between Americans and Pakistanis and will hold educational and cultural programmes.
The huge building constructed with modern technology has recently been completed. "The new consulate clearly reflects the enduring relationship between America and Pakistan

LAHORE: US Consulate security guards on Friday captured a suspect and handed him over to Civil Lines Police. According to police sources, security guards saw a six-foot-tall man doing suspicious activities and nabbed him and also recovered few maps from his possession.
The suspect was in CIA Police custody and according to sources, he told CIA officials that his name was Safdar, son of Jaan Muhammad, and a resident of Waziristan. According to police sources, US Consulate