Why does Pakistan as a state celebrate its Independence on August 14?

Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the “Mona Lisa” and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a slave from the Caucasus, new research revealed on Tuesday.

San Francisco, United States: Twitter’s owner Elon Musk and its new CEO said Sunday that the social media network would ditch its bird logo, be rebranded with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce.

Jacobabad: Generations of Rahim Buksh’s ancestors have laboured in the rice paddies and wheat fields surrounding Pakistan’s hottest city, no strangers to intense summers or monsoon rains.

With the death toll rising by the hour, the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is already among the ten deadliest of the 21st century.

Los Angeles, United States: The journey to the ocean floor to reach the wreck of the Titanic is one that gets relentlessly colder and darker, says one of the handful of people who have ever visited the luxury liner’s watery grave.

Ahmedabad, India: More than 40,000 people have been evacuated across India and Pakistan as a cyclone approaches their coast, officials said Tuesday, with gales of up to 150 kilometres per hour predicted.

More than 280 Pakistani families fear they had relatives who drowned when a migrant boat sank off Greece last week, making it one of Pakistan’s worst man-made disasters, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Friday.

Lahore, Pakistan: More than 14,000 people and their cattle were evacuated from villages in eastern Pakistan, authorities said Tuesday, following the arrival of monsoon rains across South Asia

Karachi has seen a worrisome increase in violent crime of rape during the last 1.5 year, it emerged on Thursday.

A 24-year-old pregnant woman on Friday mysteriously went mission from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, husband said.

Two suspects allegedly involved in the F9 park rape case were gunned down in an exchange of fire with police at a checkpoint in Islamabad’s D-12 area, the capital police spokesperson confirmed on Thursday

Cenar, the only cancer hospital of Balochistan, has run out of medicines, making cure to the life-threatening disease a luxury that only a few can afford.

Sindh Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah on Thursday said that the education government has decided to establish 20 new colleges and rehabilitate some 15,000 flood-affected schools in the province.

The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government on Tuesday made it mandatory for female students and teachers to wear hijab in in co-education institutions.