Tag: Overseas

Overseas Pakistani students are the ambassadors of their country and they should do their best to bring a good name to their motherland, Prime...

Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said if expatriate Pakistanis decided, the exports of Pakistan can be increased by threefold. He was talking to...

Pakistanis working abroad remitted $6.325 billion during first half of current financial year, ranging from July to December 2011-2012. This shows an “impressive” growth...

UK-based Pakistanis announced their support for the Pakistan Army in wake of the recent NATO attack and the memogate issue. Terming the propaganda against the...

A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench on Wednesday directed Attorney General Justice (r) Maulvi Anwarul Haq to seek instructions from the federation and submit...

For top Indian model Apoorva Vishwanathan, the difference between success on the catwalks of her own country and an international modelling career can be...

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has issued approval for the building plan of the Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) Tower, to be on a G- 9/4...

National Assembly Speaker Dr Fahmida Mirza has asked overseas Pakistanis to come forward and help out generously to their flood affected brothers in Pakistan,...

On the instructions of Punjab Inspector General of Police Javed Iqbal to provide prompt and efficient policing services to Pakistani expatriates a separate police...

Sindh High Court on Thursday upheld a Pakistani decision to revoke permission for former captain Shahid Afridi to play abroad, adjourning until June 16...

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ weighed anchor with $346.4 million in ticket sales from its first week in worldwide release and set...

LOS ANGELES - An animated chameleon sheriff in the Wild West topped the international box office chart as 'Rango' in its fourth weekend took in a solid $16 million in 48 territories for a global total of $159.5 million. Johnny Depp's international appeal is in evidence, even in animated form, with kids and families the world over embracing the film.
Space aliens also showed their international drawing power, with 'Battle: Los Angeles' in its third weekend abducting $15.8 million

LONDON - Inspector General of Azad Kashmir police Dr Tariq Kokhar's claims of special cells for the grievances of overseas Pakistani's have proved short lived as Kashmiri community in the United Kingdom sees no improvement in the situation, they face in their home country.
Tariq Kokhar, during his visit to UK last week, addressed various gatherings of overseas Pakistanis across the country and assured them solving the problems they faced at the hands of the corrupt police and

Foreign banks in Pakistan have reported 91 percent increase in their ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) to total loans during the last year.
In June 2009-10 the NPL ratio was 4.5 percent that had surged to 8.6 percent by June 2010, exposing an alarming increase of 91.1 percent one year.
In comparison to domestic banks, the foreign banks have reported a much higher increase in their NPL ratio.
By June 2010, the non-performing loans of the foreign banks amounted to