SYDNEY : A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said Saturday.The SMH said the city, Mahendraparvata, included temples hidden by jungle for centuries, many ...

MULTANNazim-e-Ala of Wifaqul Madaris Pakistan Maulana Hanif Jalandhri has suggested the government form an independent foreign policy and detach itself from others’ war for restoring peace in the country.Talking to the journalists here on Wednesday, he added that the former government did not ...

Statistics reveal that of the world’s 13 largest cities, Karachi is the most dangerous having the highest homicide rate in the world. There is hardly any crime that is not prevalent in Karachi. The city has a plethora of crimes, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, robberies, sectarian and ...

ISLAMABAD - Sheer negligence on part of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) costs Raja Imtiaz, an employee of Pakistan Sports Trust (PST) working under the PSB, life of his brilliant son. According to details Imtaiz’ son, who won gold medal in Mathematics, lost his battle against blood cancer at the ...

TOBA TEK SINGHMore than 27 people lost their lives during road accidents in the outgoing month of May here in the district, revealed Rescue 1122 monthly report on Monday.According to District Emergency Officer Hafiz Ayub Bajwa, the Rescue 1122 received 14,871 calls out of which 13,490 turned out to ...

LAHORE- One more measles patient died at a Lahore hospital on Saturday, taking the death toll in the city to 74. So far, 129 children have died of measles in the province. Mehwish, nine months, breathed her last at Children’s Hospital. As many as 188 more patients were admitted to ...

ABERDEEN (BBC): The puzzle of why the penguin is unable to fly may have finally been solved. Researchers believe that the bird’s underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to fly. By looking at seabirds closely related to the penguin, scientists confirmed that a wing that is good for ...

SIALKOT  - Scorching heat claimed two lives in Sialkot district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Bajwat villager Bashir Hussain, 47, and Ghulam Rasul, 51, from Pasrur.The temperature rose to 43 degrees Celsius as the hot winds continue lashing the district and its adjoining areas. ...

LAHOREScorching heat claimed a life in the provincial capital on Monday. The 40-year-old man was rushed to hospital after he fell unconscious in the Model Town courts. Eyewitnesses told the police that the man was walking on the footpath when he fell.  He was taken to hospital where doctors ...

LAHORE - Three people were killed in road mishaps in different parts of the provincial capital, police sources said on Wednesday.A cyclist was crushed to death by a rashly-driven van on Shalimar Link Road. The deceased, identified as Pervaiz, said to be a security guard, was on his way home on the ...

LAHORE  - Two more measles patients died at different hospitals in the city on Sunday, taking the death toll till today to 44. Alisha, 6, breathed her last at Children’s Hospital while Noor Fatima, nine months, died at Mayo Hospital.  Meanwhile, Punjab Health Department has extended ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died on Monday, taking the death toll to 38 in Lahore. Faiqa, 2, a resident of Kot Abdul Malik, breathed her last at the Lahore Children’s Hospital.About 110 patients are under treatment in the Lahore hospitals. Sixty-seven children have so far died of ...

David RoseThe last UK prisoner at America’s infamous terror jail camp at Guantanamo Bay is guarding a devastating secret: he witnessed the torture of another detainee in an Afghan interrogation unit which led to the crucial, bogus ‘intelligence’ that sparked Britain and ...

LAHORE -  The battle against measles has intensified as one more patient lost his life at a local hospital on Friday. Muhammad Umar, 2, breathed his last at Paeds Ward of Mayo Hospital. More patients continued to approach public sector hospitals of Lahore for treatment. On Friday, 132 new ...

WASHINGTONSPECIAL CORRESPONDENTA prominent US civil rights group said Thursday that an independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that "it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture" underscores the need to stop the ...

WASHINGTONSPECIAL CORRESPONDENTA prominent US civil rights group said Thursday that an independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that "it is indisputable that the US engaged in the practice of torture" underscores the need to stop the "disturbing ...

RAWALPINDI A solved paper of In-Organic Chemistry, BSc final year of a female student has been lost under mysterious circumstances from the Examination Hall soon after she stepped out from the examination hall at the Federal Government (FG) College for Women, Abid Majeed Road, here on Thursday. The ...

LAHORE -  Three more patients lost their lives at a local hospital on Wednesday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 27. So far 48 children have died because of measles in Punjab. Muhammad Ijaz, seven months, Iqra, 1, and Fiza, 2, breathed their last at Mayo Hospital. About 124 new measles ...

Almost one year has passed when our brave and valiant soldiers were buried under tons of snow in Gayri, sector Siachin. The bereaved families waited for news of their loved ones. Pakistan Army has completed an almost impossible task of recovering all bodies of Shuhda, in a short span of time ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

LAHORE – KHALID MALIK - Encroachments on footpaths and service roads in the city are rapidly increasing while the business community of key markets are renting-out adjacent footpaths in violation of laws forcing pedestrians to walk on roadsides causing road accidents, a survey conducted by ...

Former India captain Kapil Dev feels that Mahendra Singh Dhoni and some other players have lost their focus after winning the 2011 World Cup and the players are putting their self-interest ahead of the team."After the World Cup win, I feel they (Dhoni and other players) have lost focus. I think all ...

COLOMBO - Captain Mahela Jayawardene has said that he has lost all confidence in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) after his confidential letter regarding payment of guarantee fee to the team support staff from the ICC World T20 held, was leaked to the media."As the captain of the national team I am ...

I consider myself lucky to have been born, bred and educated in a metropolis that was aptly referred to by names such as the City of Gardens or the Heart of Pakistan. The aura emanating from the place was so overpowering that people who had not visited it were told that they had not yet come into ...

A lost budgie was taken home after it recited its entire address in full to a police officer. The bird escaped from a house in the Sagamihara district of Yokohama on Sunday morning, Kyodo News reported, and made its way to the city centre. After finding its way into a hotel, it came to rest on the ...

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah in response to the diatribe of Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly against the Chief Minister has said that PPP will never come into power and the sun of ‘PPP goons’ has set down. Raja Riaz while addressing a press conference had spoken ...

LAHORE  – PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday demanded fresh parliamentary elections, saying the ruling PPP government at the centre had lost its mandate to govern.Nawaz Sharif said a new mandate has become imperative to meet the challenges facing the country. “Hike in ...

One of my older siblings is closeted in the study in pursuit of what she calls ‘lingual conservation’. It appears that she is engaged in spotting words from Urdu vocabulary that have disappeared or are on the verge of extinction. Not to be outdone by my relative, I have excavated a few ...

LAHORE – No police personnel was on duty at the EXPO Centre when a precious diamond was stolen from an Indian exhibit on Sunday evening, it is learnt on Monday. The City Police wanted to deploy 215 police personnel including seven SHOs, three DSPs and SP Saddar Shoaib Khurram Janbaz on Monday ...

MELBOURNE (Agencies) - Veteran Australian pacer Brett Lee believes India have lost the mental edge this summer and his team would look to take full advantage of the tourists' slump by preventing them from getting on board in any format. Lee said given the seemingly low morale of the visitors, the ...