Asma Ali Zain

DUBAI - The Pakistani mission in Dubai on Wednesday officially launched the Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) in the UAE. The Pakistan Ambassador to the UAE Air Marshal (retd) Syed Qaiser Hussain inaugurated the soft launch at the Consulate-General of Pakistan.

DUBAI — Pakistan's new private airline 'Airblue' will start its UAE operations on August 14, when the first flight from Dubai will take off.

DUBAI - Pakistan's new private airline 'Airblue' will start its UAE operations on August 14, when the first flight from Dubai will take off.

DUBAI — The long-awaited Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) for Pakistanis residing in the UAE will be launched as soon as a new, under-construction waiting hall was completed at the Pakistan Consulate in Dubai.

DUBAI — The Dubai Transportation Corporation (DTC) has increased the number of public terminal machines or slot machines to 100 from 30 when they were introduced two years ago.

DUBAI — Pakistani expats are going through the experience of seeing their leave plans go awry yet again, with the Pakistan Consulate in Dubai faced with a shortage of passport booklets.

DUBAI — Shifa International is looking at ways to offer overseas Pakistani employers a registration system with its hospital so as to offer their employees cheaper and quality healthcare facilities, said Dr Zaheer Ahmed, President and Chief Executive, Al Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad.

DUBAI — Anas Munawwar Hussain, the five-year-old Pakistani boy with failed kidneys for whom Khaleej Times readers helped raise money, died due to complications arising during his kidney transplant operation last week.

DUBAI — Pakistanis residing in the UAE will not be issued Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) for some more time because the Pakistan government has not yet given the go-ahead to the mission.

DUBAI — While several people are demanding the re-introduction of toll free number by the banks, several others are questioning the safety that phone and Internet banking offers. Banks assure that the procedures are used worldwide and are quite safe.