ZIARAT: Balochistan. The land of seemingly untouched beauty and stark wilderness rarely recognised in today’s mainstream tourist destinations. However, foreigners are starting to get intrigued, and ...

THE Day of Ashura is a holy festival of remembrance in Islam, dating back 1,300 years to events that followed the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Here, we take a closer look at the festival of Ashura, ...

Earthquake tremors shook Ziarat and surrounding areas early Saturday, registering a magnitude of 5.0, the National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) ...

The idea was just too risky. In fact, I was crazy to even think about going ahead with it. This is what I was told by just about each and every one of my friends when I discussed with them my plans to ...

Tourist traffic in Pakistan has routinely headed north. The southerners here, while fighting the summer heat and humidity, still find respite in the now-overcrowded, trash-littered, ill-planned ...

The collection of fifteen huge posters created by Ali Vazirian features the tragedy of Ashura variously through letters, paintings, calligraphy and graphic designs. “These posters are the outcome of ...

KARACHI, May 31: One of the oldest forests in the country, the juniper forest in Ziarat in Balochistan, has been given the status of biosphere reserve and added to the World Network of Biosphere ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Hundreds of Arabic- and Azeri-speaking women convened at Iran’s Imam Reza Shrine to commemorate Ashura and reflect on the role of women in preserving Islamic teachings. On Wednesday, ...