ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal has informed that all Pakistanis are safe, after Monday’s terrorist attack in the Netherlands. In a tweet, the foreign office spokesperson said that our Ambassador in the Netherlands has informed that all Pakistanis are safe, ...

NEW DELHI - Despite tall claims about secularism and protecting liberal values, the government of India has denied visa to two brothers who are part of the Netherlands team merely for having Pakistani background. Sikander and Saqib Zulfiqar had to tour India as part of the Dutch team, however, they ...

THE HAGUE - The lawyer of Asia Bibi, who was acquitted of blasphemy, Saturday jetted out of the Netherlands to "hopefully assist his client for the last time" in a Supreme Court hearing. Saif-ul-Malook fled to the Netherlands from Pakistan in November last year after violent protests erupted over ...

ISLAMABAD - The Netherlands resumed visa and passport services in Pakistan on Monday following a brief suspension, denying that its embassy had closed over security concerns. The Dutch government said in a statement on Friday that its embassy in Pakistan, which is in a tightly guarded “diplomatic ...

AMSTERDAM - Four children were killed and a woman and another child seriously injured after a train struck a cargo bike in the eastern city of Oss, near the German border. Cargo bikes, having a large wooden box mounted on the front, are popularly used by Dutch parents to transport their children. ...

ISLAMABAD - The government of the Netherlands has expressed its willingness in promoting bilateral relationship with Muslim majority Pakistan, hours after the cancellation of blasphemous caricature contest. Dutch envoy to Pakistan, Ardi Stoios-Braken announced on Twitter that the Embassy team ...

LAHORE - Thousands of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) supporters have started marching towards the Pakistan’s capital city to stage a massive demonstration against a competition of blasphemous caricatures, depicting Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in the Netherlands. Khadim Hussain Rizvi of ...

THE HAGUE - Dutch police have stated that they have detained a 26-year-old man suspected of threatening an attack on the Dutch Parliament or on the organizer of a blasphemous cartoon competition. Police didn't identify the targeted organizer by name, however, a video of a Pakistani origin youngster ...

AMSTERDAM - The incident occurred when three adults and two kids exited the car, despite clear instructions not to do so, and ran into wild animals. https://youtu.be/eje1RJKKDdw The video shows three adults and two children rushing to their car to take shelter from the predators. The most ...

THE HAGUE - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie offered to arrest one of the world’s most wanted war criminals in a secret mission in central Africa, according to leaked emails. Internal documents from within the International Criminal Court show how the UNHCR special envoy plotted with the court’s ...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Photos of Frederick the Great, a 16-year-old Friesian stallion and proud holder of the unofficial title of “world’s most beautiful horse”, are going viral on the Internet once again. Born in the Netherlands, this “Real-life Black Beauty” was imported into the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan received US$2.410 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the recent fiscal year 2016-17, up 4.6 percent from the previous year, the Central Bank announced on Tuesday. Of that figure, $1.35 billion correspond to Chinese funds, an increase of 11.4 percent, according to a ...

THE HAGUE- A chef from Switzerland has created one of the most expensive burgers on the planet, selling it for around $2,314. Diego Buik, who works at South of Houston restaurant in The Hague, Netherlands, said he invented the lavish burger in honor of National Hamburger Day (May 28), in the hopes ...

ISTANBUL - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday the Netherlands was acting like a 'banana republic' in the purview of barring Turkish ministers from speaking in Rotterdam. Speaking at an event in Kocaeli the Turkish leader called on all international organisations in Europe and elsewhere to ...

AMSTERDAM - A building linked to the Association of Islamic Communities (AIC) in Culemborg, Netherlands was allegedly set on fire here on Wednesday. The building, which was formerly a swimming pool, was bought by Association of Islamic Communities to turn into a religious and prayers center and ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament yesterday approved a partial ban on “face-covering clothing” including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab. The legislation, approved by a large majority in the 150-seat lower house, must now be ...