Dozens of diplomats and Serena Hotels staff trekked up the Margalla Hills on Saturday, this time taking Trail Six from Faisal Mosque to the plateau overlooking Talhar village...
Austrian Ambassador Brigitta Blaha said trekking in the Margallas reminded her of “the hills near Vienna where we are also blessed with such opportunities”...
ISLAMABAD: As a strong heat wave continues to take its toll on the Indian plains, Pakistan is not under any immediate threat from the scorching sun, possibly because of the constant inflow of cool winds from Europe and Central Asia...
“However, the situation changes as one starts to move further north towards Pakistan,” he said...
ISLAMABAD: The first major fire of the season erupted in the Margalla Hills on Monday...
During the summer every year, the Margalla Hills faced a number of fires incidents...
ISLAMABAD: A large number of children and youngsters on Saturday held a hike at the Margalla Hills Trail-V and participated in a painting competition to mark the World Mother Earth Day...
”The event was organised by the Sustainable Tourism Foundation Pakistan and the Development Communications Network (Devcom)...
ISLAMABAD: With the arrival of summer, incidences of fire have begun at the Margalla Hills...
Over the last 15 days, eight wildfires have been reported, the largest of which erupted in the Margalla Hills on Tuesday night and according to some Capital Development Authority (CDA) officials, is still burning...
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in six years, leopards have been seen on Margalla Hills...
Villagers had then spotted the leopards in different locations on the hills...
TAXILA: Eight labourers working in a stone crushing plant in Margalla Hills were buried under heavy stones and debris after blasting early on Friday morning...
On September 9, three labourers were killed and three others injured when a part of hills caved in during blasting in the same area...
TAXILA: The death toll from Friday’s Margalla Hills blasting incident rose to four after rescuers retrieved another body on Saturday...
NEW DELHI: Maoist rebels in India killed 10 police after luring them into a hilly, forested area sewn with booby traps and setting off the bombs, officials said on Tuesday, in what was one of the deadliest attacks this year...
Members of an elite police unit were acting on a tip-off that a group of rebels had gathered at the top of a hill in the remote south of Bihar state when they found themselves trapped at lower ground late on...
The fires, fanned by strong northern winds known as the mistral, ravaged more than 2,000 hectares of the dry, pine-planted hills north of Marseille and were stopped just at the outskirts of France’s second-biggest city...
With its wide, manicured roads, high-rise buildings, shopping malls and recreational spots, Islamabad would be largely indistinguishable from any other modern capital city, if not for the Margallas, and the roads and trails that zigzag up the hills...
Daman-i-Koh is a point on the Margalla Hills where wildlife, villages and the modern city meet...
7-km-long road from Wahi Pandi to Gorakh Hills, have been completed during the first quarter of this financial year, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah was informed on Tuesday...
949 million, while the road from Wahi Pandi to Gorakh Hills was built at the cost of Rs594...
LOS ANGELES: Three United States (US) women claim a Saudi prince assaulted them and held them captive during three days of sex-and drug-fuelled partying at a Beverly Hills mansion...
Many members of Gulf monarchies own mansions in posh Beverly Hills and it is not the first time one of them has had a run-in with the law...
MURREE: Fires broke out in the forests of Murree destroying thousands of plants and affecting trees as well...
The flames erupted in the forest compartments of Samli Behramal, Kaseri, Nair Goli, Masot, Phaphril, Barra Hoter and Darya Gali
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has finally decided to crack down on stone crushers on Margalla Hills near Islamabad from next week to save the national park...
The provincial authorities had identified more than 64 stone crushers operating in the buffer zone of Margalla Hills despite the ban imposed by the federal government...