ISLAMABAD: The sale of CNG as fuel has been prohibited for 10 hours a day from Thursday onwards due to the disruption in the supply of gas and to facilitate domestic consumers...
The Islamabad deputy commissioner therefore put a restriction on the over 80 CNG stations in the city regarding the sall of CNG as fuel for the next two months...
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has imposed a ban on selling, purchasing and movement of sacrificial animals in sectors, sources told Dawn...
Although the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has designated an area in I-12 for the cattle market, certain sellers move to sectors with the objective to earning higher profits, the sources said...
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the international community to take serious note of the recent illegal uranium sale in Indian black market, raising the concern that such radioactive material can fall into wrong hands endangering human lives and security of the nations...
Pakistan, from the very beginning, had advocated for a negotiated settlement of the Afghan imbroglio, as war was no solution to any dispute that...
MINGORA: Deep in a small vale at Shakhorai village, there are three ancient rock inscriptions of the Buddhist times...
BAGHDAD: Militants belonging to the self-styled Islamic State hammered, bulldozed and ultimately blew up parts of the ancient Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrud, destroying a site dating back to the 13th century BC, an online militant video purportedly shows...
The militants have been destroying ancient relics they say promote idolatry that violate their fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law, including the ancient Iraqi city of...
CAIRO: Czech archaeologists have unearthed an ancient funerary boat near the Abusir pyramids south of Cairo, officials said on Monday, in a discovery that could shed light on shipbuilding in ancient Egypt...
While members of the team were clearing a mastaba or ancient tomb, they found parts of the 18-metre-long boat covered in sand and lying on a bed of stones, the ministry said...
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in country's history the Foreign Office organised a three-day exhibition reflecting Pakistan's ancient culture and civilisation which attracted a large number of history lovers along with diplomats...
The exhibition titled 'Ancient Pakistan' is showcasing artifacts and relics from ancient civilisations belonging to the region including Gandhara, Harappa, Mehrgarh and Moen-Jo-Daro...
The Italians and Pakistani archaeologists said that the new discoveries contradicted the earlier assumptions about the ancient settlement, which was believed to be a smaller rural site in protohistoric times...
We are studying the coeval archaeological evidence, and meanwhile few samples of the human skeleton are going to be studied for DNA analysis by experts of Max Planck and Harvard Medical School,” he said...
The Guardian quoted columnist and author Parsa Venkateshwar Rao as saying, “History shows conquerors all over the world converting existing monuments to suit their own ideas, but this claim about the Taj is absurd because features such as the dome and minaret cannot be found in earlier periods and it is silly for the judge to have even allowed the petition...
GILGIT: The ancient Shaman (Deyal) festival was celebrated with traditional zeal in Bagrot valley of Gilgit here on Sunday, near the Rakaposhi Mountain...
Shaman is sometimes called a medicine man, who cures diseases, explains cause of disease for a person, uses magic to cure people who are sick, and also predicts future...
According to a BBC report, the researcher responsible for the breakthrough is textile archaeologist Annika Larsson of the Uppsala University...
The garments used in the research were kept in storage for more than 100 years, dismissed as typical examples of Viking Age funeral clothes...
TAXILA: A nearly 2,000-year-old well at the Mohra Maradu Stupa still serves as a source of water for over a hundred families living nearby...
The stupa’s well is a major source of water for southern residents of Mohara Maradu, and people fetch water from the well all year round...
ANCIENT OLYMPIA: The torch for the Pyeongchang 2018 winter Olympics was lit in ancient Olympia on Tuesday using the backup flame from the dress rehearsal due to rainy weather, kicking off the countdown for the first winter Games in Asia outside Japan...
The traditional ceremony, introduced for the first time ahead of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, did not benefit this time from the Greek sun...
The Department of Archaeology and Museums had awarded a contract for the restoration of an ancient archaeological site in Sirkap, Taxila to a local contractor...
According to sources, on Sunday during the preservation work, some labourers were removing wild grass from the remains of the residential complex to the east of the site and at the back of the apsidal temple when they found the ancient gold earrings, bangles and other items...
AL KHADER: Ancient pools that provided water to Jerusalem around the time of Jesus are to be restored under a $750,000 renovation funded by the United States, officials said on Tuesday...
The three Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank were built around the time of Jesus’s birth and were key sources of water for the city, according to research from the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS)...