Tag: Ksa

13 Pakistani Haj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

A total of 13 Pakistani Haj pilgrims, including three women, have died in Saudi Arabia, said an official of Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony.

KSA warns against sharing ‘faked’ documents after Wikileaks release

Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday...

KSA SC upholds sentence for blogger, says wife

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the sentencing of a Saudi blogger, Raif Badawi, who was convicted of insulting Islam, according to a...

Sharif takes Sharif to the King

A high-level consultative meeting on the latest situation in Yemen Wednesday decided that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif will visit Saudi Arabia on a day-long visit, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

KSA is not at war with Iran, says Saudi FM

Reiterates that Yemen intervention is aimed at protecting ‘the legitimacy of the state’ A top Saudi official said his country is “not at war with...

Saudi Arabia jails prominent human rights activist for 15 years

Abu al-Khair, the founder and director of an organization named the Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, was jailed on Sunday on charges that included seeking to undermine the state and insulting the judiciary

KSA, China all weather friends of Pakistan

Shahbaz Sharif meets ambassadors of China and Saudi Arabia New era of development and mutual cooperation between Pakistan and People’s Republic of China has started...

Reports of nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia baseless: Pakistan

Pakistan has declared news of nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia as baseless and devoid of truth. Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam during the weekly press...

Sheltering the displaced

The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and the UN Refugee Agency on Monday launched a project to construct 325 two-room houses for the people...

Diplomats worried about workers’ apathy towards correcting status in KSA

The Diplomatic Quarter (DQ) is back to being a peaceful and quiet diplomatic enclave after Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) extended the grace period...

Saudi govt declares 30,000 Pakistanis illegal immigrants

The Saudi Arabian government declared 30,000 Pakistanis as illegal immigrants on Wednesday following introduction of a new employment law. According to the new law, the...

Pakistani driver given 20 days to raise SR 150,000 in blood...

The family of a Pakistani driver living in a slum in the outskirts of Jeddah is trying to help him avoid an indefinite prison...

Saudi king dismisses deputy defence minister

The Saudi deputy defence minister, Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz who played a key role in the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait,...

Joint naval exercise between Pakistan and KSA concludes

An impressive demonstration of live weapons firing by ships and aircrafts was conducted on Monday during a joint exercise, NASEEM AL BAHR, between Pakistan...

PMDC to oversee Pakistani doctors’ employment in KSA

The Saudi government has expressed the desire that Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC) be made a focal point for dealing with matters related...

Ahlesunnat-wa-Aljamaat speaks out for KSA

LAHORE - Ahlesunnat-wa-Aljamaat leaders said on Friday that the campaign against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was an attempt to fan sectarian violence in the country and that they would not allow any country to use Pakistani soil to promote its agenda.
Addressing a rally outside the Press Club, Sheikh Muhammad Akmal, Maulana Hussain Ahmed and MA Usmani said the government's silence over wall-chalking in Karachi against Saudia Arabia was deplorable. Akmal said that the forces