Tag: Oman

A head-on collision involving a truck and a bus killed 18 people of various nationalities, including two Pakistanis in western Oman on Tuesday, police...

Meezan Bank has signed an agreement with HSBC Bank Oman to acquire the latter’s banking business in Pakistan, according to a stock filing. Owned 51%...

Washington has transferred six inmates from its GuantanamoBay prison to Oman, the Pentagon said on Saturday, as part of a drive by President Barack...

Captain Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Irfan and Abdul Haseem Khan scored two goals each while Muhammad Umar Bhutta and Muhammad Dilber scored one goal each.

TEHRAN Tehran is all set to punish Islamabad for its failure to lay down the 781-kilometer-long pipeline in Pakistan’s territory under the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas...

Riyadh Yousuf Ahmed Al-Raisi, Ambassador of Oman, called on Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at the Prime Minister's House on Thursday. The prime minister said...

Ambassador of Oman to Pakistan Muhammad Said Allawati has said Omani embassy will soon grant visa to business community on the recommendations of Sialkot...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Capital Market Authority (CMA) Sultanate of Oman, recognizing the increasing international activity in the financial...

Pakistan and Oman held the fourth round of Annual Bilateral Political Consultations in Muscat on Monday. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Omani Undersecretary...

Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman Mohammad Said Mohammad Al-Lawati called on Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar here on Wednesday. “The foreign minister lauded...

Four crewmen died and five are still missing after an Indian ship sank in bad weather off the coast of Oman, state media in...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a brief visit to Oman Wednesday for talks with Sultan Qaboos on rising tensions with Iran over...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived early Wednesday in Oman for talks with Sultan Qaboos about his reform efforts and TO share US...

An Omani court has jailed 13 protesters for up to five years in the industrial city of Sohar, site of demonstrations demanding better pay,...

SOHAR - Heavy security prevented fresh protests after Friday prayers in the Omani city of Sohar, where protesters camped out for over a month before security forces moved them out last week.
Checkpoints were set up across the northeastern industrial city with dozens of armoured vehicles blocking access to protest areas. Residents' names were checked against a list and access to mosques was restricted, while a helicopter flew overhead, witnesses said. Demonstrations in Oman,

MUSCAT - Oman's Sultan Qaboos on Sunday granted legislative power to the previously toothless Oman Council after weeks of anti-government protests in the strategic Gulf state.
"We grant the Oman Council legislative and regulatory powers," said a royal decree carried by ONA state news agency, referring to the elected Majlis Ash-Shura consultative council and the all-appointed Council of State. "A technical committee of specialists is to be formed to propose amendments to the state

SOHAR - Omani forces in tanks dispersed on Tuesday protesters who were blocking the port in the Sohar industrial city and the coastal road to the capital Muscat, an AFP reporters said. The operation went peacefully and Omani forces drove away protesters who had been keeping vigil at the Earth Roundabout, a landmark intersection in Sohar where clashes erupted Sunday killing at least one protester.
It came a day after the United States urged Oman to show restraint and press ahead