The Majlis-e-Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen Pakistan on Sunday held a demonstration outside the Press Club against destruction of shrine of Hujr Ibn Adi in Syria by Al-Qaida groups.A large number of protesters including women and children participated in the protest. Addressing the protesters, the speakers ...

It seems as if everyone is following the route ‘Red Riding Hood’. Like her, most of us pick the easy route, but what we forget is that there is no easy route to success but hard work. Who would take the long difficult route when an easy way out lies in front of you? Our students have ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has urged the United States and North Korea to back off from confrontation, warning that if a war broke out on the Korean peninsula it would affect over 70 per cent of the planet.As the nuclear stand-off continues, Castro, the ...

Moderate eruptions from Deccan Traps make Earth a difficult place for dinosaurs to live on. 65million years ago Massive volcanic eruptions kill 80 per cent of life on Earth - then a meteor the size of Everest strikes, along with several other large space rocks. 300,000 years later Yet more volcanic ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - Adding to the miseries of the rain and flood affected people, particularly in Sindh province, a new rain-bearing weather system entering Sindh, Southern Punjab and Eastern Balochistan, has inundated more villages making the situation worse in several districts of Badin, ...

U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday no charges will be filed against CIA officers who destroyed interrogation videos of al-Qaida detainees. Special prosecutor John Durham cleared undercover CIA officers and agency lawyers for their role in the destruction of evidence after a three-year ...

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD The worst monsoon floods and torrential rains have killed more than 800 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while a considerable number of people are still missing in various parts of the province. Besides paralysing life in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the floods have damaged infrastructure ...

LAHROE Justice (r) Dr Jav-ed Iqbal has said Friday that three bitter elements of our society including dictatorship, theocracy and 'Peeri culture were main reasons of our current destructive condition. He expressed these views at a seminar titled: Muslims Identity and Present Era and inaugural ...

KARACHI - Mai Kolachi, the area that once had a significance due to its ecological impacts on the City, today is facing degradation at mass scale as the mangroves sites have lost all its potential due to fast cutting of mangrove forests. 'One Mile SquareMai Kolachi is a project by Nukta Art ...

ISLAMABAD Due to the myth-making capabilities of American corporate media, September 11 has become a metaphor of war, destruction, and numbness of human feelings, which did not end on that fateful day. It is still continuing, making its appearance in various parts of the world, most especially in ...

LAHORE - The mausoleum of Zeb-un-Nisa commonly known as Dai Anga, wet nurse of great Mughal emperor Shahjahan, is in danger of complete collapse, as despite the directives by the DCO to preserve the monuments, the rehabilitation work has not been started. The ever-increasing encroachments have ...

BAMIYAN (AFP) - "We got him" screamed Afghan archaeologist Anwar Khan Fayez as he leapt from the pit beneath the towering sandstone cliffs, where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood. Seven years after Taliban blew up the two 1,500-year-old statues in a fit of Islamist zealotry, a French-Afghan team ...