LAHORE: Taking a big leap towards digitizing its half-million documents with history since the Mughal period, the Punjab archives department has solved 27,000 archives and purchased four specialized scanners to scan them. "The slow project of digitalization, preservation and modernization of the department of archives of Punjab has received a new impulse, through important steps […]
KASUR: Chunian police arrested 12 more suspects on Sunday in connection with the rape and murder of three children whose bodies were found in sand dunes near the Chunian bypass about a week ago. The total number of arrests has reached 20 and all suspects belong to Chunian. Because of the number of arrests, it
HYDERABAD: The judge of the district and Larkana's sessions seemed reluctant to conduct a judicial investigation into the mysterious death of Nimirta Mirchandani, a senior BDS student at Bibi Aseefa Dental College, Larkana, who was found dead in her room at the shelter on September 16 in accordance with the request of the department of
ISLAMABAD: Two new cases of polio were confirmed in the district of Lakki Marwat, which is also the constituency of the health minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hisham Inamullah Khan. An official from the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), who is not authorized to speak on the record, said both cases
ISLAMABAD: While the number of dengue cases in the country has reached the five-digit figure, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Dr. Zafar Mirza, warned that there will be an additional increase in these cases in the next 10 days. “However, during the next month the disease will be controlled since
Once a month, Wahid Mohammadzai goes to Afghanistan in a van to bring dry wood to sell in local markets. Previously, he worked on the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project as a worker to earn a monthly salary of Rs20,000. I meet Wahid near Kili Hummai, his village, about 15 km from the
LAHORE: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), convened on Sunday the president of PML-N and the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and discussed the modalities of the long Proposed march against the government. Both leaders, along with their assistants, also discussed the country's political and economic situation at
KABUL: A Taliban delegation met with the Chinese special representative for Afghanistan in Beijing on Sunday to discuss the group’s peace talks with the United States, a spokesman for the militant group said. The meeting comes after the cancellation of the eleventh hour of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, earlier this month
ISLAMABAD: The relationship between Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) and the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP) has begun to deteriorate after the latter refused to join the long anti-government march with leaders of both parties that now accuse each other of playing politics in this regard. While PPP leaders still show some restraint and are not directly
GILGIT / MANSEHRA: Twenty-six people died and at least 20 others were injured when a bus bound for Rawalpindi from Skardu hit a small hill near Babusar Pass in the Diamer district on Sunday morning. Ten soldiers on board the bus also lost their lives as did three children and eight women. The officials had
