Bahria Town, a Malik Riaz real estate venture offering luxury sports villas and residential plots will also be including a state-of-the-art stadium with the capacity of 50,000 people. The project boasts of building the largest stadium in Pakistan to date. It has been modeled after the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

The project’s bookings for the 250,500 sq.yards plots and 1,000 sq. yards as well as for the luxury villas including a 4 bedrooms spreading over 350 sq.yards are open.

Pakistan’s Tallest Building Bahria Town Icon Tower Inaugurated in Karachi

Last Friday, bookings for Bahria Sports City were officially opened. It will be built inside Bahria Town Karachi and will be easily accessible from the Jinnah Avenue. Bahria Sports City boasts “A unique design approach unifying modern architecture with sports facilities will include beautifully master planned community along with international sporting and training facilities.”

Other than the Bahria Sports City will have the Grand Gymnasium which also claims to promise unparalleled  exercise experience tot he residents. The gymnasium will also house Squash, Tennis and Badminton courts for the sports fanatics.

Also trying to provide more sports oriented opportunities to the youngsters, Bahria Sports City will also feature a football stadium.

A cycling and jogging track will also be built to help the residents maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.The sports city will also include fun filled Go-Kart racing track, established for the youth,  as well.

It will also house conference rooms where business meetings can be held with  mindfully designed rooms and suites  inside the 5-star luxury hotel. This establishment will also be offering an array of different cuisines from around the world.

Bahria Sports City offers a convenient payment schedule which is divided into installments spanning a total of four years.

Booking forms can be collected from the appointed UBL branches as well as Bahria Town offices.

A team of Pakistani researchers claims to have unearthed a 1.1 million-year-old stegodon tusk in the central province of Punjab, potentially shedding new light on the mammal’s evolutionary journey.

Stegodons, distant cousins of modern elephants, are thought to have been present on earth from around 11 million years ago until the late Pleistocene period, which lasted until the end of the last Ice Age around 11,700 years ago.

The tusk measures some eight feet (2.44 metres) in length and is around eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter, making it the the largest ever discovered in the country, according to the team.

It was found by researchers from the zoology department of the University of Punjab during an expedition in the Padri village of Jhelum district, said Khurram Shahzad, a spokesman for the university.

Professor Muhammad Akhtar, who led the research trip, told AFP: “This discovery adds to our knowledge about the evolution of the stegodon, particularly in this region.”

“It also sheds light on what the environment was like at the time of the animal’s life.”

Dr Gerrit Van Den Bergh, a paleontologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia who has done extensive research on the ancient mammals including in Pakistan, said: “If you have a complete tusk, that’s quite special — they are quite rare.”

He cautioned however that further verification, including of the dating, would be required. Akhtar said the fossil belonged to the late Pleistocene period and its age was determined using a uranium-lead radioactive dating technique.

Stegodonts were known for their long, nearly straight tusks and low-crowned teeth with peaked ridges.

This indicated they were browsers or mixed feeders in a forested environment, in contrast to the high-crowned plated molars of mammoths and elephants which allowed them to graze.

They were strong swimmers and are thought to have originated in Africa but to have quickly spread to Asia, where most remains have been found.

“Around 1.2 million years ago they were still thriving,” said Van Den Bergh. “They are mostly an Asian species but remains have been found further afield. Recently a molar fragment was discovered in Greece.”

He added that the species’ extinction coincided with the emergence of modern humans, though it was difficult to say with certainty that men hunted stegodons.