Though to that it can be added that the water saving method of ‘Matka irrigation’ — preferably using grey water, of course — ensures that a little water goes a long way...
They can be found in a variety of sizes but, for general garden irrigation use, a matka with a five to 10-litre capacity is ideal...
KARACHI: Akbar Liaquat Ali Khan — son of country’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan — passed away in the city on Wednesday...
His nephew Kamal Liaquat Ali told Dawn that Akbar Liaquat had been undergoing dialysis for the past two years...
KARACHI: Reigning Asian snooker champion Hamza Akbar will become the first Pakistani ever to make his mark in the British professional circuit later this month...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has served on Akbar S...
QUETTA: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) leader Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti passed away on Monday morning from a protracted illness in Quetta's Combined Military Hospital (CMH)...
Talal Akbar Bugti was the son of former governor of Balochistan and chief minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, who was killed in a military operation in Chalgri area of Bhamboor hills of Dera Bugti in 2006...
KARACHI: Asian snooker champion Hamza Akbar added Rs300,000 to his kitty that were doled out by three individuals on his remarkable feat in Kuala Lumpur recently...
KARACHI: Friends, colleagues and relatives of Hasan Akbar Kamal, who passed away on July 21, shared their views on the life and work of the poet at an event organised in his memory at the Arts Council on Tuesday evening...
When secular-minded bloggers who allegedly defied our ‘national ideology’ in quiet cantons of the internet were whisked away to be interrogated in secret rooms, one wondered: is our national ideology so fragile, so friable?In his opus, Image and Identity, the late, great, Pakistani art critic, Dr Akbar Naqvi, announces, “Pakistan’s history is older than its age… The thesis of this book is that Pakistan is inseparable from [the] heritage of...
KOHAT: A freedom fighter, Gul Akbar Khan – brother of gallant warrior Ajab Khan Afridi of Darra Adamkhel – who lies buried near the newly-constructed Jail Plaza, remains unrecognised due to the insensitivity and incompetence of the tehsil municipal administration, Kohat...
Accompanied by his brother Gul Akbar Afridi and two other companions Sultan Mir and Haider Shah, the legendary Ajab Khan Afridi had kidnapped Moli Elis, daughter of...
The Kashmiri emperor, Sultan Yusuf Chak, had already been taken prisoner by Akbar and exiled to what’s now the Indian state of Bihar...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court was told on Wednesday that the Punjab government could not acquire even an inch of Hazrat Baba Mauj Darya shrine’s land as Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar had allotted the whole property in the name of the saint’s family for all times to come...
Advancing his final arguments against the Orange Line Metro Train project, civil society’s counsel Advocate Azhar Siddique told a division bench that...
QUETTA: Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, son of late Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, filed an application with an anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Wednesday, seeking to exhume the body of Akbar Bugti to ensure that it was his father who was buried after he was killed in the mountains of Dera Bugti district during a military crackdown on Aug 26, 2006...
In a separate application, Nawabzada Bugti requested the court to...
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta on Monday acquitted former president General Pervez Musharraf in a case pertaining to the alleged murder of former Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti...
The court also rejected the request by Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, eldest son of late Nawab Akbar Bugti, to order exhumation of the body of his father to confirm that the body buried in Dera Bugti was that of his father......
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court adjourned on Wednesday the hearing of Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case to Oct 21 after recording testimonies of two witnesses...
Former federal interior minister Aftab Sherpao and the lawyers of former president retired General Pervez Musharraf and Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of Akbar Bugti and the complainant in the case, appeared in the court...
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died in hospital on Sunday after suffering a heart attack, the ISNA and Fars news agencies reported...