My search continued, carrying me to many places across continents over the years, but my thoughts always brought me back to the untold story of the mysterious old woman I met there, who travelled through time and received a call to prayer from the other side...
She was too old and frail to walk, but she claimed to travel through time...
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he backed a bill limiting the number of calls to prayer from mosques, a proposal government watchdogs have called a threat to religious freedom...
Netanyahu, who spoke as a ministerial committee was to discuss the draft bill, said he would support a move that some have labelled unnecessarily divisive
Swedish police on Tuesday granted a mosque permission to hold a weekly Azan (call for prayer), triggering divisions among politicians and the public five months ahead of elections in a country which has taken in waves of asylum seekers in recent years...
According to a poll conducted by the social research company SIFO and published by the private broadcaster TV4 in March, 60 percent of respondents said they wanted to ban Azan from...
One of the myths surrounding those wrestling greats of yesteryears was their extraordinary large meals -- that the meat of an average-sized goat or sheep made up one-time meal for a pehlwan...
Next, the lady of the house you are a guest in will unveil her culinary skills with the best recipes ever taught by her mother, all tried and time-tested...
But once inside a shop, you realise that there is more to do with time here than just the wall clocks...
On the shelves and inside the showcases you also see pretty timepieces and table clocks and inside the glass counter showcases there are the wristwatches all reminding you of the importance of keeping time...
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif has directed the party leadership to take other opposition parties on board on doing “aggressive” politics after Muharram...
Although mainstream opposition parties — the PML-N, PPP and JUI-F — maintain that they are in talks with each other to finalise the agenda of the MPC, the PML-N has reportedly conveyed Mr Sharif’s wish to the PPP and JUI-F leadership to evolve a...
LAHORE: Four-year-old bay filly Light The Night virtually lit the Racecourse while powering to victory in the feature event in a record fastest time during the Lahore Summer Meeting here on Sunday...
The Lahore Race Club (LRC) stewards upheld the objection and disqualified Lucky Game from the race...
From over 1600 students who had represented 244 of the most competitive schools from Punjab, the regional finalists were winnowed to 114 who won the right to compete at the Lahore Regional Championship Round on the morning of November 5...
The contest kicked off with the two-day Multan Pool Rounds on October 18 and 19, moving to Faisalabad on October 25 and finally the four-day Lahore run from November 1 to 4...
LAHORE: The Lahore police allegedly fudged the statistics of crime incidence big time by refusing to register FIRs on 72pc of calls received on police emergency helpline from January till the first week of the current month...
Obtained by Dawn, a first-of-its-kind report gives startling figures about the Lahore police’s peculiar way to show ‘outstanding performance to its senior bosses’...
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested PTI MPA Nazir Chohan in Lahore on Wednesday in a case registered by the prime minister's aide, Shahzad Akbar...
Today's arrest comes a day after Chohan was arrested by police from the office of the Lahore Development Authority on a separate complaint by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar...
It was a night to remember for Lahore fans as their beloved Qalandars erased the pain of years of failure to finally bag their maiden Pakistan Super League title by defeating favourites Multan Sultans in the final by 42 runs at Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday...
In the end, Multan were skittled out for 138 as Lahore emerged the new champions...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
Lahore, being the cultural hub, played a vital role in the arts, literature and culture in the mid-20th century; especially, visual art was inspired by the rich panoramic beauty of the walled city and life around its 13 gates, so an exclusive genre of cityscape came into existence, as early as the...
LAHORE: Not losing hope and still awaiting a reply from the BCCI on the bilateral series, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan is convinced that the role of the Indian cricket board is now vital to persuade its government for endorsing the crucial series after the ice-breaking visit of Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to Islamabad the other day...
“The official announcement [on restoring India-Pakistan bilateral...
Pakistan refuses to take the blame for the Haqqani Network and other alleged militant outfits, reminding the United States that these 'terrorists' were considered the 'darlings' of the White House up until a few decades ago...
"Further clarifying Islamabad's position, Asif said: "It is very easy to say Pakistan is floating the Haqqanis and Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
KARACHI: Two sperm whales, a species that had no past record of its live sighting in Pakistan’s waters, were recently spotted by fishermen off Jiwani, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) reported on Tuesday...
“Fishermen became very curious and followed these whales for over an hour during which they were able to record their movement with the help of their mobile phone cameras,” Mohammad Moazzam Khan, technical adviser on...