PARIS: France’s imposition of an automatic lifetime voting ban on people convicted of certain offences is legal, the European Union’s top court has ruled.
In a case being watched closely in Britain, where the Government has rejected calls from European judges to amend its own legislation barring prisoners from voting, the European Court of Justice found that Thierry Delvigne’s loss of voting rights when convicted in 1988 was in line with EU law.
KARACHI: Pakistan Business Council (PBC) Chairman Ziad Bashir has linked the country’s sustainable growth to women having equal opportunities and...
LAHORE: An Oman-based hawala network used WhatsApp, mobile-linked transfers and e-wallets to facilitate unlicensed cross-border remittances to Pakistan, according to...
PESHAWAR: President of the Khyber Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Yousaf Afridi, has said that the closure of the...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s cotton fumigation operations have effectively come to a halt following a clearance dispute involving imported Methyl Bromide, leaving...
