OKARA - The District Police claimed to have unearthed wine distilleries and seized hundreds of litres liquor besides arresting five accused from various parts of the district. On directives of DPO Dr Haider Ashraf, the police tightened noose around vintners and launched a crackdown on them. ...

Two more dead bodies of soldiers, buried under the monstrous avalanche at Siachin’s Gayari sector have been discovered. According to ISPR, efforts are underway to establish the identity of these two martyred soldiers, by an already present on-site team of NADRA experts. The rescue operation ...

GUJRAT - A fraudster has looted scores of citizens and businessmen by cheating them on the promise to provide monthly profits and left the country after plundering Rs 2 billion, TheNation has learnt. One Haji Rizwan had introduced the same business as Double Shah of Wazirabad had brought in ...

BAHAWALNAGAR- The relics more than 200-year-old small bricks built mosque discovered in village Mubarikpur which also known as village of swindler some 10-km away from Chistian. The mosque is discovered by denizens of villagers during excavation of old sand mount. The relics of the discovered ...

LAHORE An embezzlement of several billion rupees has been detected in the National Fertilizer Marketing Ltd (NFML), a wing of the National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC), whose task is to sell the imported urea to farmers through its dealers network all over the country. Official sources told ...

SIALKOT - As many as 55 patients suffering from gastro were admitted to Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Hospital. Dr Naeem said that most of these patients were children and women. He said that gastro-related cases are increasing nowadays. However, the Sialkot EDO (Health) said that overall gastro ...

LALAMUSA - The Saddar Police, following a tip-off that fake soft drink manufacturing factory was working at Mouza Mekan, conducted a raid and seized the fake factory, beverage, bottles of famous multinational brands from the factory. The police during search of factory, also recovered chemicals, ...

Pippa Middleton had a short-lived stint as a model, it has been revealed. The 27-year-old took part in a fashion show while studying at Edinburgh University in 2004, wearing clothes by designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Jean-Paul Gaultier. By participating in the event, which was hosted by ...

SARGODHA - The police unearthed two running distilleries and heavy quantity of heroin and illicit arms from 18 accused including two women in a drive against anti-social elements. According to the police sources that on the direction of District Police Office Dr Muhammad Rizwan, the police ...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered one of the worlds oldest brains that once belonged to a man in Iron Age Britain who was sacrificed in a ritual killing. Scientists found the cranium in a muddy pit when they were excavating a site before a new campus was to be built at the University of ...

LAHORE While the IMF team in Islamabad is prodding the federal government on revenue generation, the tax authorities have detected usury fraud to the tune of billions of rupees in the provincial metropolis. Tax experts in the cash-strapped country are focusing on unearthing parallel banking ...

LAHORE Following the leads provided by an earlier arrest of a local resident recruited by the Indian agencies, a well-organised spy network operating from the border areas of Sialkot has been unearthed, well-places sources confided to The Nation here on Monday. The follow up investigations have ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a sphinx-lined road in Luxor that led to the temple of Mut, the ancient goddess worshipped as a mother, the culture minister said on Monday. Faruq Husni said in a statement that 12 sphinxes were found along the road, which runs east to west ...

ISLAMABAD At a time when the country is facing severe electricity crisis, the massive corrupt practices, unearthed in the affairs of Multan Electricity Power Company Limited (MEPCO), have allegedly resulted in the losses worth Rs3,300.505 million (Rs3.30 billion) to the national ...

ISLAMABAD Capital Police have seized a container having more than 26000 bottles of liquor of foreign brands that was being illegally transported into the city in the name of diplomats leaving many questions unanswered how the container reached the posh area despite the presence of a number of ...

LAHORE - A scam of Rs30.15 millions has unearthed in the fixation of 250 vehicles of Punjab Highway Patrol in the end of 2008, The Nation learnt on Thursday. As per details, Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Jehan Zaib Burki wrote a letter to the former IG Police Shaukat Javed as well as to ...

THE fossilised skull of a colossal sea monster has been unearthed along the UKs Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull is 2.4m long, and experts say it could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found: ...

KARACHI - The Excise Department of Sindh Government has unearthed the financial embezzlement of millions of rupees in terms of tax evasion of Motor Vehicle Tax (MVT) at three branches of National Bank of Pakistan in city. The preliminary inquiry of internal audit of the department revealed the ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking serious notice of irregularities in procurement of drugs and other items for Hepatitis Control Programme (HCP), the Federal Minister for Health Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani has constituted a two member committee to probe into the matter and to present its report within a week. The ...

IT'S the sort of classic jewellery favoured by modern women except these earrings were worn 2,500 years ago. An archeologist  discovered gold earrings, a ring and other funeral gifts dating back to the 5th century B.C. while excavating  a Thracian tomb near the village of Kushare, ...