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Security forces arrested one Saudi born Pakistani terrorist here on Wednesday, police said. City’s Superintendent of Police, Rai Ajaz, while talking to a private television...

A junior officer of the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Karachi was gunned down in an ambush in DHA Phase IV on Monday. Hassan Al-Khatani...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan, former JI chief Qazi Husain Ahmed and Secretary General Liaquat Baloch on Monday condemned the shooting at the Saudi...

Pakistan's al Qaeda-linked Taliban said on Monday they killed a Saudi Arabian diplomat in the Pakistani city of Karachi. "We take responsibility," a Taliban...

The Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah ordered the home department to ensure the security of every Saudi diplomat Condemning the killing of Saudi diplomat,...

Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed a Saudi diplomat in Karachi on Monday, police and the Saudi ambassador said, the second attack on the...

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...

Officially, Saudi Arabia was slow and casual in its reaction to the killing of its former citizen, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, but...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday met Saudi King Shah Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz and conveyed President Asif Zardari’s special message to him, Geo...

A US drone attacked a Saudi Al-Qaeda leader in southern Yemen on Thursday, but missed him and killed two local members of the militant...

ISLAMABAD - The Saudi government has paid the amount for 449 people who performed Haj on the government level during last two years.
Quoting sources, a private TV channel reported that the Saudi government has paid Rs 3 crore to the ministry of religious affairs.
It may be recalled here that the investigations have also been undertaken in Pakistan to expose the culprits of the Haj scandal.
In this regard a number of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials and

TEHRAN - Iran on Tuesday said it would ensure the security of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran after Riyadh threatened to pull out its diplomats following protests by Iranians outside its mission."The security of embassies is a basic principle and we will ensure the security of embassies and the lives of diplomats," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters at a press conference in reference to Saudi threat. "Our people are sensitive to what is happening the

WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia is interested in investing in Pakistan's energy and agriculture sectors, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said after meeting his counterpart from the oil-rich country.
Dr Shaikh and Saudi Finance Minister Dr Ibrahim Bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf discussed investment opportunities that Pakistan holds out for Saudi businesses at a meeting on the occasion of semi-annual IMF-World Bank gathering.
"We have very close and longstanding relationship with Saudi

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Interior directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday to call the ambassador of Saudi Arabia immediately and ask him to annul the decision of executing three Pakistanis as they had paid blood money (Diyat) to the heirs of the killed persons in Pakistan.
The Pakistani citizens had been awarded death sentence in a murder case in Saudi Arabia but they had not been released so far despite the payment of Rs 4 million as blood money

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Religious Affairs will hire 900 Pakistani students studying in Saudi Arabia as Khuddam-ul-Hujjaj for this year's pilgrimage.
Under the Hajj policy-2011, the number of local Khuddam has been increased from 250 to 900 whom's services will be hired at 100 Riyals per day, official sources told APP .
"For the welfare services, Medical Hajj Mission has been increased from 260 to 540, while 230 Khuddam will be drawn from Armed Forces, Civil Armed Forces

TEHRAN - More than 200 Iranian parliamentarians on Wednesday condemned the "frightening crimes" of Saudi troops in Bahrain and demanded their departure, state television website reported.
"Today the protest shouts of Muslims in Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Afghanistan, even in Saudi Arabia and many other countries are being heard due to the frightening crimes of Saudi occupiers against the oppressed people of Bahrain," they said in a statement. By doing so "the Saudi army is being