PESHAWAR: Masjid Qasim Ali Khan is though a historic mosque in Peshawar city like Masjid Mahabat Khan yet it comes to limelight only during moon sighting before the start and end of Ramazan leading to an endless controversy for the last few decades...
People from far and wide throng the mosque for moon sighting announcement as Populzai scholars have been controlling religious rituals since Durrani dynasty in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as...
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Wednesday entered into an understanding with the Italian authorities to launch joint research activities in the fields of history and archaeology, especially in connection with the historical sites of Bhambhore and Ranikot, said a statement issued here...
The signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) was held at the Sindh Archives, where director general of antiquities Manzoor Ahmed Kanasro...
He said this while addressing locals who had gathered to welcome him and his recovered son, who reached his hometown with his father from Lahore on Tuesday...
A large number of PPP workers and people from various walks of life had gathered to welcome Ali Haider...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Devolution on Thursday recommended that the issues surrounding Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) devolution in light of the 18th Amendment be resolved as soon as possible...
The committee met at Parliament House and discussed a public petition filed by the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA)...
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to "expel" Law Minister Farogh Naseem from the federal cabinet in the "larger national interest" after the controversy over remarks by former attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan against Supreme Court judges...
In a statement, PBC Vice Chairman Abid Saqi said: "Submitting to the demand of the PBC and the legal fraternity, Khan's decision to resign [...
Pakistan Stock Exchange's (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 index shed 796...
52 on Tuesday as the uncertainty surrounding the recently announced agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dampened investor sentiments...
Talking to Dawn, a member of the board of Capital Development Authority (CDA) said: “CDA will request the federal cabinet for an audience to two board members, architects Nayyar Ali Dada and Ali Asghar to present their view point and concerns regarding the JCC proposed privatisation...
Civic body says once privatised, the centre will increase load on adjoining roads, other servicesHowever, sources said board members were of the view...
TAXILA: The centuries-old traditional watermills, locally known as Jandars, in Hassanabdal and its surrounding areas are disappearing fast...
The operators run these mills through water and heavy stones grind the wheat making quality flour...
I came from India to Dar es Salam last year, to join in the efforts of my organisation to improve quality and market access of cocoa commodity in Tanzania...
Saad flocked in from Pakistan around the same time, on an Acumen Global fellowship to help Husk Power (an Indian social enterprise) expand in East Africa...
6 tonnes of ivory smuggled from Tanzania after a cross-border dispute over whether the elephant tusks should be saved as legal evidence against poachers...
Tanzania had succeeded in delaying the burning since September, but a court in Malawi this month ordered wildlife authorities to publicly destroy the 781 pieces of ivory — valued at nearly $3m...
GENEVA: Some 3,000 cases of cholera have been reported in Tanzania, mainly among Burundian refugees fleeing political violence, the UN said on Friday, adding that up to 400 new cases were being counted daily...
All but two of those who have died were Burundian refugees, and most were children, it said...
A leading conservationist who had worked hard to bring down notorious elephant poachers and stop ivory-trafficking, has been shot dead in Tanzania, his Protected Area Management Solutions (PAMS) foundation said Thursday...
“We are heartbroken to share the news that PAMS Foundation co-founder, Wayne Lotter was shot and killed last night (Wednesday) in the Masaki District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,” read a statement...
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania’s ruling party candidate, John Magufuli, was declared winner on Thursday of a presidential election, after the national electoral body dismissed opposition complaints about the process and a demand for a recount...
Lowassa had questioned partial results as they were announced and had called for a recount of the presidential vote in a nation that has been one of Africa’s most politically stable...
NAIROBI: Attackers in Kenya tried to hack off body parts from a man with albinism to sell for witchcraft, reports said Monday, rising fears of cross-border attacks from neighbouring Tanzania...
"Three people stormed my house and demanded money," 56-year old Enock Jamenya, from Kenya's western Vihiga district, told the Daily Nation newspaper...
DAR SALAAM: At least 11 people were killed and around 100 injured in Tanzania's Bukoba district when an earthquake hit the country on Saturday, a district police chief told AFP...
“We currently have 11 people dead and more than 100 injured, several of whom have been hospitalised...