Tag: Dubai

Women Trafficking from Pakistan: Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade

Zunera once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, the bright-eyed Pakistani girl was tricked into prostitution in the U.A.E., beginning a...

Dubai bus crash kills 13 Asian workers

  DUBAI-    A bus overturned and hit a lorry parked on the hard shoulder of a motorway outside Dubai on Saturday, killing 13 Asian workers on...

Dubai Islamic Bank reports Rs 211m profit

The Board of Directors of Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited (DIBPL) recently held a meeting to approve its financial statements for the year ended...

Court urged to hear Musharraf’s case in Dubai

ISLAMABAD Former president Pervez Musharraf’s lawyer filed a petition in the special court on Sunday to conduct hearing of the case in Dubai owing to...

Three Pakistanis found dead in Dubai

Two minor girls and their father from Pakistan were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their villa in Dubai, an Arab newspaper reported on...

MQM says no decision on joining Sindh govt

A delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) held a meeting with a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) delegation in Dubai on Friday. The PPP delegation...

KESC’s major shareholder aiming at buying more power units

As Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has expressed its desire of to privatise distribution companies (DISCOs), Abraaj Capital, a Dubai-based power giant having 72.5...

ANF foils bid to smuggle heroin to Dubai

The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) on Sunday foiled a bid to smuggle heroin worth hundreds of thousands of rupees at the Lahore Airport. According to...

India, Pak envoys meet in Dubai to better ties

    Special envoys of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart  Manmohan Singh, Shahryar Khan and SK Lamba, met in Dubai on Thursday in...

President Zardari flies to Dubai

President Asif Zardari on Sunday left Britain for Dubai after having medical check-ups at London’s top private clinics. Zardari will stay in Duabi for a...

Norwegian woman jailed in Dubai for reporting rape

A Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape said she...

NAB team leaves for Dubai to arrest Sadiq in OGRA scam

A two-member team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) left for Dubai on Monday to arrest the former Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA)...

Dubai workers hold rare strike for more wages

Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction company have gone on strike for a second day to back wage demands in a rare labour...

Smuggling of 60,000 liquor bottles from UAE to Pakistan foiled

The custom intelligence and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) during a joint operation foiled a bid to smuggle a huge quantity of liquor and...

Kvitova ousts Radwanska to reach Dubai semis

Petra Kvitova upset defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska to reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Thursday evening. The Czech has struggled...

Serena, Azarenka penalised

Serena Williams, the world No 1, and Victoria Azarenka, the only unbeaten leading player on the women's tour this year, have been penalised for...

SC adjourns Shahzeb murder case till Jan 29

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) Wednesday adjourned Shahzeb murder case till January 29 after Karachi police sought two weeks to submit...