Tag: Visa

Summit Bank announced the launch of Summit VISA Debit Card and Summit VISA Debit Gold Card during a press conference. Both the Cards are...

Standard Chartered Pakistan announced the launch of PIA Platinum Visa Debit Card. The PIA Platinum Visa Debit Card is the first and only co-branded...

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman’s visit to London is likely to be postponed because the UK High Commission has not issued a visa to...

India and Pakistan are likely to have a relaxed visa regime facilitating easy travel for journalists, businessmen and senior citizens of both the countries...

Pakistan and India on Friday discussed amendments in the existing visa agreement and agreed to continue discussions on the new visa agreement in the...

Pakistan and India on Thursday discussed ways to ease the strict visa regime between the two countries as a joint working group on the...

Some Iranian students may seek two-year, multiple-entry US visas, the State Department said on Friday, giving them greater freedom to travel to the United...

Renowned Indian TV anchor and Group Editor of English News at NDTV, Barkha Dutt used a unique strategy on social networking site Twitter to...

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), while appreciating the fifth round of constructive and productive Secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India, has...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who was worried about Britain's new visa regulations, has secured a work permit to play county cricket, his manager said Wednesday.
Kushil Gunasekera said the British authorities had expedited his visa as he had to leave for India on Wednesday to play in the Indian Premier League before heading off to join Gloucestershire in June. "He wishes to thank the British authorities for quickly issuing him with a visa,"

LONDON - British government has announced a radical shake-up of the student visa policy. Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study work route are amongst the changes in the student visa policy unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday. Immigration officers will have the power to refuse entry to foreign students if they fail to speak English. Similarly, tens of thousands of dependants will also be stopped from joining overseas

KARACHI - Silkbank has re-launched its' new Visa debit card with an attractive and vibrant design - offering a lifestyle of enhanced convenience to its customers. Addressing the re- launching ceremony, Silkbank President and CEO Azmat Tarin said that the newly introduced card is acceptable at over 54,000 merchant outlets in Pakistan and millions globally.
Customers can withdraw cash at over 1.6 million ATMs worldwide and over 4,000 ATMs nationwide. Visa Debit Card customers can

LONDON - Britain's interior ministry Sunday said its plans to tighten the visa system for foreign students would not damage the country's universities. An alliance of chief executives from 16 universities has written to the interior minister, Home Secretary Theresa May, urging her to abandon plans to restrict the number of visas and impose strict English language requirements. Students represent almost two-thirds of non-European Union migrants coming to Britain. The government thinks

MOSCOW - Visa Inc (NYSE:V), one of the global leaders in the payments industry, today announced the introduction of a new person-to-person payments service that will allow millions of customers to send and receive funds within minutes both internationally and domestically.
This service comes as a result of a major enhancement to the Visa network that enables Visa card accounts to receive funds in near real-time. The enhancement is expected to prompt a new generation of personal

ISLAMABAD AND LAHORE - Arrest of another US government security contractor amid an already worsening row between Pakistan and the US over the fate of Raymond Davis has exposed the "lenient approach" adopted by the PPP-led government in issuance of visas to hundreds of Americans without proper vetting.
The country's intelligence agencies have called on the Americans to "come clean" about its network of covert operatives in the country. According to the Guardian, Peshawar police

ISLAMABAD - UK Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, also chairperson of the ruling Conservative Party, called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar in the federal capital on Tuesday. "She was accompanied by Damian Green, Minister for Immigration, and the British high commissioner to Pakistan," said a Foreign Office's statement.
The minister of state highlighted the problems relating to the issuance of visa to the Pakistani nationals and also underlined

LAHORE - Visa Inc has recently announced significant improvements to its security capabilities which will dramatically improve its ability to detect and prevent global electronic payments fraud. Upgrades to Visa's global processing platform - VisaNet - have allowed Visa to develop new anti-fraud models that enhance the speed and accuracy with which Visa detects attempted payment card fraud.
An analysis of past global transactions suggests Visa's enhancements could help identify