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KARACHI, Pakistan: More than 500,000 children up to five years of age will be administered polio drops in a three-day anti-polio campaign that began...

LAHORE/PESHAWAR: The first special hajj flight from Lahore will leave for Saudi Arabia on August 28, while the first hajj flight from Peshawar carrying...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Heavy rain accompanied by hailstorms lashed various parts of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 16 persons and injuring more than 80...

NEW DELHI, India: The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the growing incidents of rape in the country have shamed us and...

SEOUL, South Korea: The 37-year-old Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the...

ABUJA, Nigeria: The Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in the country over the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.In...

Love never dies—Love letters written in August 1945 to a 17 year old young Dorothy Bartos Carlberg reached her in August 2014Monitoring Desk: This...

QUETTA, Pakistan: A man and a woman were shot dead by a relative in a honour killing incident in Dera Allahyar area of Balochistan’s...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Italian ambassador Adriano Chiodi Cianfarani held a meeting with the federal finance minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad on Monday, during which...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will set up 350 small hydel power stations in Malakand Division to generate 9,000 megawatts electricity.The media reports...