DASKA The officials of Tehsil Municipal Administration here have failed to ensure the early removal of heaps of garbage along the banks of the BRB Canal Daska, thereby affecting the people's health and creating large-scale environmental pollution. The heaps of trash from the Canal Bridge GT Road to ...

  ISLAMABAD   Hosts Islamabad Cricket Club for the Blind defeated Azad Kashmir Cricket Club for the Blind by 20 runs, in the final of the All Pakistan PAF Cricket Champion Trophy for the Blind, played at PAF Complex Cricket Ground Islamabad on Monday. Air Marshal M Hassan, Deputy Chief of ...

KARACHI“Around two million people are completely blind in Pakistan, where blindness rate is 1.08 per cent. In Sindh, about 340000 people are suffering from blindness, while cataract and diabetes are the major causes of blindness. By birth blind children usually have cataract, which is curable ...

A BLIND pensioner doesn’t let his handicap hold him back with his twice weekly hobby - water skiing. Peter Sheath, 74, from Southampton, has been water skiing for a quarter of a century - despite being blind since the age of 30. He no longer performs daring tricks and jumps, such as 360 ...

RAWALPINDI – Police are unable to trace down the assailants of Supreme Court’s lawyer Chaudhry Muhammad Khan, who was gunned down at GT Road near Fauji Foundation Hospital, and have finally sought public help to solve the blind murder case.For this purpose, the police high-ups of ...

The ruthless killing of innocent volunteers, administering polio drops, has created sorrow and pain for every Pakistani. These innocent people have been targeted by illiterate and biased killers, who believe in rumors. How can anyone justify taking a life on the excuse of a rumor, and such a ...

Captain of Pakistan Blind Cricket team, Zeeshan Abbasi has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after he was reportedly made to drink acid Saturday morning in Bangalore.It should be mentioned here that Pakistan Friday defeated India by eight wickets.The hotel management said they are ...

TAIPEI - Huang Yu-siang was born with a gift and a devastating disability. He has a huge talent for music, but he is blind. His story has become a movie that has captivated audiences in his native Taiwan. The film, “Touch of the Light”, marks a double triumph for the 25-year-old. First ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police on Tuesday arrested three accused including a woman for their alleged involvement in blind murder case and also recovered murder tool from them, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.According to a press release issued from office of SSP office on Tuesday, a person Azam ...

FAISALABAD --A blind person has been making both ends meet by repairing and polishing shoes for the 45 years at square of Ghulam Muhammadabad. Cobbler Mukhtar, 65, lost his eyesight some 45 years ago. He is father of three boys and one daughter while his wife is also disabled. Thus, he has to face ...

A ONE-year-old who suffers from a rare genetic illness that means he barely ever sleeps still manages a big grin every day for his parents.Curly-haired Rio Vicary suffers from Angleman’s Syndrome, a rare condition which means he is unlikely to walk or talk and needs round the clock care.The ...

BEIJING - Blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family left China on a plane bound for the United States Saturday, ending weeks of uncertainty in a saga that sorely tested China-US relations. Chen was whisked to Beijing’s airport from the hospital where he had been treated after his dramatic ...

LONDON (BBC) - Two British men who have been totally blind for many years have had part of their vision restored after surgery to fit pioneering eye implants. They are able to perceive light and even some shapes from the devices which were fitted behind the retina.The men are part of a clinical ...

LAHORE - The training camp of Pakistan blind cricket team has started here at Model Town cricket ground. The camp was being participated by 13 players as M Shahbaz could not join the camp due to the death of his father and likely to join the camp in a couple of days, team’s coach Nafees Ahmad ...

A blind man in Zimbabwe has overcome his handicap - to become a top cricket commentator. Dean du Plessis gauges the action by training his acute hearing on the stump microphones. “I was born with tumours on both my retinas, so I was only meant to be alive for three to maximum five months - ...

New technology to help blind people text using touchscreen mobile devices has been developed.Researchers at Georgia Tech produced the app - to be made available on Apple and Android devices - based on the Braille writing system.It is claimed typing with the app is up to six times faster than ...

SIALKOT - The police have traced out as many as five blind murder cases and arrested 17 accused.DPO Syed Ali Mohsin disclosed this while talking to the newsmen here at his office on Tuesday. SP (Investigation) Nasir Muneef Qureshi and senior member of District Peace Committee Zafar Malik were also ...

LAHORE – The mystery of two ‘blind’ murders has been solved and the killers have been arrested, a high-level police official claimed on Tuesday. SP Investigation Captain (r) Liaqat Ali Malik told this reporter that three accused killers -- Irfan, Waqar and Asrar -- gunned down the ...

LAHORE The failure to save some 100 cars from being lifted in the Punjab metropolis in the recent weeks has put a question mark on the future of over 50 companies supplying vehicle trackers. The business of these firms might see a dead-end sooner not later as an illegal device, called jammer, has ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A Cambodian scientist has discovered a new species of blind and legless lizard that looks like a snake, conservationists said. The small reptile, which mostly lives underground, was given the name dibamus dalaiensis, after the Dalai mountain in southwestern Cambodia where it was ...

BLIND boxer dog Baks has got a new lease of life - after being taken under the wing of a pet goose called Buttons. Buttons the four-year-old goose leads her pal around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go. Owner Renata Kursa, 47, of Lublin, ...

ISLAMABAD (app) Secretary of Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC), Bilal Satti said that as all the nation is working on to make better the Pakistan-India relations so the PBCC not lacking behind. He told that we are likely to host a bilateral Pak-India series at the end of this year in Dubai. ...

ISLAMABAD Probing the Haj scam, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is tightening its noose around some of the main accused but turning a blind eye to certain other big shots, including the PMs son, primarily under pressure from FIA DG Waseem Ahmed. The FIA on February 21 handed over a ...

ISLAMABAD Prevailing circumstances are forcing me to commit some serious crime, so that in prison I can be able to get rid of the tension of two-time meal a day for rest of the life, Muhammad Maqbool Khan, an unemployed visually impaired Masters degree holder, stated this while narrating his sad ...

KARACHI Three blind golfers representing the International Blind Golf Association (IBGA) proved that people with disabilities can still lead a sporty lifestyle. The trio is taking part in a blind golf challenge that was organised ahead of the inaugural Handa Singapore Classic which tees off on ...

KARACHI In a unique competition, three vision impaired golfers will contest against top professionals in a three-hole challenge during inaugural Handa Singapore Classic that tees off in Singapore on Thursday. According to information received, the three vision impaired golfers competing in the ...

KARACHI - Sindh Liberation Army (SLA), a separatist movement of the province, is gaining strength in the metropolis and posing a serious threat to the security agencies. These agencies despite strict vigilance in the current turmoil have not noticed presence of a billboard of SLA placed on the ...

Dubai Deputing a cricket commentaror as a member of the team management on any tour is unusual but what takes the cake is that Dean Du Plessis, a member of the support staff of the visiting Zimbabwe team, now on Bangladesh tour, is visually challenged and yet can deliver his best in the commentary ...

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) seemed least interested in relocation of INT Centre auto market situated in G-7/1, posing grave security threat to the nearby important government buildings. It is pertinent to note here that Federal Ombudsman building, Press Information ...

LAHORE - A blind girl from Multan has found a novel way to brighten her life - reporting cricket matches. In an astounding tale of courage and determination, a Multan-based girl Sania Zaidi has traveled with the Pakistan team to Sri Lanka and is currently working as a reporter. In A BBC ...