Tag: travel ban

No change in visa policy for Pakistan: US embassy

ISLAMABAD: US Embassy spokesperson on Thursday said that the US has not changed visa policy for Pakistan, adding that visas were being issued on...

Iran’s president calls Trump a political novice over travel ban

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani dismissed his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump as a political novice on Wednesday, stepping up criticism of Washington's temporary travel ban...

Trump’s executive order on immigration: Is it legal?

US President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily halting refugee arrivals and blocking immigrants from seven majority Muslim nations marked perhaps the most contentious moment...

Trump migration ban risks boosting extremist threat: experts

President Donald Trump’s order blocking immigrants from seven mostly-Muslim countries in the name of national security could backfire and increase the threat of extremist...

Trump travel ban will create ‘host of hostilities’, warns Bilawal

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday warned the Trump Administration against slapping a travel ban on Pakistan, saying such...

Obama rejects faith-based discrimination amid travel ban uproar

WASHINGTON: Former US president Barack Obama expressed his objections Monday to any faith-based discrimination, in an apparent dig at his successor Donald Trump’s ban...

Fired: Trump dumps top lawyer who defied immigration order

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the...

One million sign petition to cancel Trump’s UK state visit

A petition demanding Britain cancel a planned state visit by US President Donald Trump passed one million signatures on Monday, following outrage over his...

Ayyan can leave the country, rules SC

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Monday (today) discarded the interior ministry's appeal to keep model Ayyan Ali's name on the Exit Control List (ECL) and...

Protests erupt at US airports following Trump travel ban

  President Donald Trump's travel ban barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations entry into the US has sparked protests around the country Saturday night...