NANKANA SAHIB Mother of The Nation District Correspondent Sheikh Shahid Mehmood passed away here on Thursday after a protracted illness. She was 75. Her funeral was offered here in Nankana city after Asha. A large number of people from all walks of life including politicians, lawyers, ...

The Lahore High Court on Thursday handed over a 25-days-old infant to his mother after got recovering from his father’s custody. The court passed the orders on a habeas corpus petition moved by a woman Yasmeen for recovery of his son namely Faizan who came in the world on April 22. The ...

Once a year, on December 31 at the stroke of midnight, we say good bye to the old year and toast in the New Year, with the hope and a prayer that the new year will herald a better tomorrow and will not be the same ‘out with the old, in with the old year’. Unfortunately, each New Year ...

Miles Corwin - The first time my mother made leg of lamb, she never connected the two events. The second time, she thought it was a coincidence. The third time, she knew it was a curse. Every time she prepared leg of lamb, my father was laid off a few days later. The first time it was for a few ...

MAKHACHKALA - The mother of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings on Thursday launched an impassioned attack on the US authorities over the death of one of her sons, as her husband planned to travel to the United States to find out what happened.The parents of the two ...

ISLAMABAD - To advocate for the cause of protecting the mother and the child from preventable diseases through immunisation, the World Immunisation Week and Mother and Child Week was launched here on Wednesday.This year the vaccination week focuses on measles elimination with the slogan 'stop ...

Tearful counsel of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, Ahmed Raza Kasuri on Tuesday said that his “poor client” could not see his sick mother.Talking to media after hearing of high treason case against Musharraf, Kasuri became emotional and with wet eyes said that putting the ...

Every year ‘Earth Day’ is celebrated with zeal to show sympathy to the deteriorated condition of the earth, due to ever increasing pollution and vanishing greenery. Consequently, global warming is increasing and the earth is inching toward a devastating end. There are two main reasons ...

SLOS ANGELES: Gerard Butler is terrified of losing his mum. The 'Olympus Has Fallen' actor - who was brought up by his mother after his dad walked out when he was a child before later reuniting with him - says not knowing his father for 14 years had a big impact on his life and left him hugely ...

CALIFORNIA (DS):A teenager has been arrested after dialling 911 twice to complain about his mother’s tone of voice. Vincent Valvo was handcuffed outside his home after a police officer responded to his second 911 call. When he had previously called the police, he had been reminded about the ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama handed over his weekly radio address to the grieving mother of a Newtown massacre victim on Saturday as debate raged over proposed gun control legislation. In a rare move which ramped up pressure on US lawmakers ahead of debates on gun control in Congress, ...

LAHORE – Two people, including a mother-of-four committed suicide, in two separate incidents in the provincial capital, sources said on Saturday.Reportedly, a 35-year-old woman swallowed poisonous pills after a clash with her mother-in-law over a domestic dispute in the Satu Katla police ...

LAHORE – A mother of four children was electrocuted in the Shera Kot area, police said on Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Nazia Bibi, was ironing the clothes at her house in the Ahsan Colony when she received an electric shock and fell unconscious. Her neighbours took her to hospital ...

ABUJA  - The elderly mother of Nigeria’s finance minister was on Friday freed from kidnappers after being abducted from her home in the country’s south last weekend in a crime that shocked the country, police said. Details of the release were unclear and there was no indication of ...

BAHAWALPUR - Mother and Child Health week campaign started here in the district which will continue till November 21.A total of 1,32,336 children up to 2 years of age will be vaccinated and 1,92,000 children under 5 years of age will be treated for stomach diseases during the campaign. Similarly ...

LAHORE – Additional District & Sessions Judge Khalid Mehmood Bhatti on Friday handed over a minor to his mother after recovering him from father on a petition filed by a woman seeking direction to recover her minor.Rizwana Bibi filed a petition submitting that she got marrid to Amin ...

OKARA - EDO Health Dr Saeedullah Khan said that Health Department was working on a comprehensive programme to minimise the death rate during maternity by urging the pregnant women to make their deliveries through qualified doctors. In this regard, he said a “Mother and Baby” week will ...

KARACHI - In-laws burnt alive a mother of four children here on Thursday within the remits of Mochko police station.Police said that the deceased woman Saira, 24, wife of Abdul Razzaq, resident of Gulshan-e-Ghazi was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where doctors said that deceased women was ...

RAWALPINDI - A widow, mother of five daughters, committed suicide by setting herself ablaze within the limits of Police Station Airport here on Monday.According to details, Perveen Bibi widow of Sabir Hussain (late) was living with her five small daughters in a very miserable condition in a rented ...

LAHORE – A motorcyclist shot dead a woman in front of her three-year-old son at a busy crossing in broad daylight in the Muslim Town police precincts on early Friday, police and eyewitnesses said. The deceased woman, later identified as Farzana Bibi, 32, carrying her minor son, was crossing ...

GUJRANWALA  - A sick woman has sold out her seven-month-old baby to ‘continue her medical treatment.’The woman from Qila Mian Singh area of Gujranwala says she is so poor that she cannot afford medical treatment.“That is why I am selling my baby for Rs 1, 20,000 to get heart ...

A MOTHER collapsed and died moments after going on a white-knuckle theme park ride. Carla Knight suffered a heart attack soon after riding on the Maelstrom – a giant pendulum swing that propels riders more than 70ft into the air as they face outwards on a spinning gondola. The 42-year-old ...

Dr. Faiz Ahmad of the NUST has rather sarcastically tried to ridicule Agha Waqar for the auto water-kit (WK) that the later is trying to find sponsors to produce commercially. I am sure the learned doctor knows that the water kit is not something new and quite a few of the US and French kits are ...

TWIN babies Dylan and Hannah Fox will grow up together, sharing a special bond as well as the same birthday.Unfortunately, the one thing won’t have in common is a nationality. For while Dylan is English, his sister is actually a Scot, having been born on the other side of the Border after ...

LAHORE – A man stabbed his 45-year-old wife to death over some domestic issue in City Raiwind area, police said on Tuesday. Resident of Manga Road, Munir Ahmed Sheikh got infuriated and repeatedly stabbed Sughran Bibi during their scuffle, which took place after heated debate over a domestic ...

LAHORE – A colorful ceremony was organized for winners of 10th annual KFC Mother’s Day Card Competition 2012 along with their mothers, Principals and art teachers at Barket Market, says a press release.There were three groups from class 1 to 8th and three categories in each group. 16 ...

LAHORE – Lahore Executive District Officer (EDO) Dr Inamul Haq has said that ‘Mother and Child Week’ will be observed from May 21 with a target to provide healthcare and awareness services among pregnant women and other general public. He made this announcement while talking to ...

RAWALPINDI - Allah Almighty bestowed the humanity with His countless blessings and one of them is mother who takes care of her child in all weathers from his birth to her last breath without expecting anything in return.Generally people come across various forms of relationships in the life like ...

LOLA JAYEAs Mother’s Day approaches, I’m reminded of how times are changing. How we, as a society, can be less inclined to listen to the older generation. That old adage ‘Mother knows best’ is perhaps now even more outdated than ever before.When a few reviewers of my book ...

AN ELKVIEW Middle School mother is the first parent in Kanawha County to be jailed because of her child’s absences.Rhonda Smith, whose daughter has missed 47 days of school, was sentenced to five days at South Central Regional Jail. She could have received up to 20 days. Kanawha prosecutors, ...