Paul Hawkins has developed a sensor capable of detecting the slightest nick and hopes to make it available to amateur players at all levels...
Hawkins told Thursday's Times he was close to making this system available for public use...
TAMPA: Nasa is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown on Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet...
No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has travelled some 300 million miles (482 million kilometres)
LOS ANGELES: Nasa’s unmanned Martian quake sensor, InSight, has landed at a slight angle on the Red Planet, and experts are hopeful the spacecraft will work as planned, the US space agency said on Friday...
Therefore, experts are hopeful that its two main instruments — a quake sensor and self-hammering mole to measure heat below the surface — will work as planned...
The Asma Jahangir camp convincingly won the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections held on Tuesday, Oct 31, with Pir Kaleem Khurshid elected as the president, according to unofficial results received late on the same day...
Pakistan Bar Council vice-chairman Ahsan Bhoon, its members Azam Nazir Tarar and Abid Saqi, former governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa and Ramzan Chaudhry were among main supporters of Khurshid...
SUKKUR: Lashing out at the Pakistan Peoples Party’s leaders and its poor governance in the province, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional president and chief of the Grand Democratic Alliance Pir Pagara said on Sunday that the GDA would defeat the PPP in the next general election and form its government in Sindh...
The spiritual leader of the Hur Jamaat, Pir Sibghatullah Rashdi, said this while addressing a big public meeting of the GDA...
KARACHI: PML-Functional chief Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi has cautioned against withdrawal of the Rangers from Karachi or having a confrontation with it...
Pir Pagara was talking to journalists at an Iftar party he hosted at his Kingri House residence on Sunday...
KHAIRPUR: Rejecting the criticism of Rangers by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) over the ongoing operation in Karachi, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief and spiritual leader of his Hur Jamaat Pir Pagara has said that the people of Karachi are happy with the Rangers-led operation against targeted killers, terrorists, criminals and corrupt elements...
Speaking to the media at a gathering held in Pir Jo Goth to mark the...
APROPOS the feature ‘A pir’s curse’ (July 5)...
In Pakistan, marriages within close family circles are fairly common with devastating results for children born out of cousins’ marriages...
Its writer, journalist Sanam Maher's arduous search revealed that the enclaves housed the Indian consular staff, until they were evicted in 1994 by a fiat of the Pakistan government...
From 1958 to 1960, when my father was the Deputy High Commissioner for India in Pakistan, we lived in a house in the “Shivaji Park” enclave on Karachi’s McNeil Road...
LEGEND has it an elderly pir stopped at a village handpump in Shikarpur district to prepare for prayer...
The pir looked up and said to the women: you are snickering now but when you deliver the babies you are carrying don’t forget to laugh at home too...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has sanctioned Rs25 million to provide financial assistance to the poorest of the poor of Baba Bhit and Shams Pir islands and Rs15 million for Lyari in Karachi for Eid celebrations and expenditures...
The deputy commissioner of west while briefing the meeting participants informed them that as many as 1,985 poor beneficiaries so far had been identified and verified on Baba Bhits and...
THATTA: From about 200 metres away, the Pir Patho Tower, looks like a mirage in the sweltering heat in the barren fields of Thatt district...
Pir Patho, which looks like a watchtower or lighthouse, is attributed to Mohammad Bin Qasim because it is apparently located where the young general first set up camp after arriving in Sindh in the 17th century...
Locals of the area, who believe Pir Patho could have been a mosque’s minaret, have their own interesting story to tell about its origins — that it dates to back to hundreds of years before Mohammad Bin Qasim’s arrival to the...
Days after Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi of the Sial Sharif shrine called off a protest aimed at "bringing down the government", the PML-N lawmakers in Punjab Assembly — who had resigned in solidarity with the religious leader — withdrew their resignations on Monday...
The four MPAs ? Maulana Rehmatullah, Khan Muhammad Baloch, Raza Nasrullah and Nizamuddin Sialvi, who is the nephew of Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi, a former senator — withdrew their...
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Chief of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) Pir Sibghatullah Rashidi, commonly known as Pir Sahab Pagara, has said the general election will be free and fair and the Pakistan Peoples Party will taste a “historic defeat”...
The GDA comprises Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, National Peoples Party, Qaumi Awami Tehreek, Sindh National Front, Peoples Party (Workers) and some other like-minded groups...