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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram on Sunday lambasted the political aides of President Asif Ali Zardari and Sharif family, alleging that they are merely targeting PTI founder Imran Khan to garner public attention and media coverage. Reacting to Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s recent outbursts, Akram fired back, saying that even these “political entertainers privately acknowledged” that the PTI founder sacrificed his comfort for Pakistan’s greater good. “They have been admitting the bitter truth that only Khan is the political reality of the country,” he added. He claimed that former prime minister Imran Khan was a leader of international stature, while his critics were “mere pawns unleashed by their masters to unnecessarily criticize the PTI founder because the political demise of the outdated and corrupt political dynasties of Sharifs and Zardaris was imminent.” Earlier in the day, Khawaja Asif in a public statement slammed Khan for begging for US help to ensure his release from jail. He also questioned the motive of PTI’s desire for talks with the political players, saying that for over two years they had been pressing only for engaging with the establishment. Multiple cars pileup in Dera Ismail Khan leaves 20 injured The information secretary said this power greedy clique not entered into a marriage of convenience to serve the nation’s interests, but to deliberately push Khan out of the political landscape. “Their sinister plan ultimately backfired, as they failed miserably in their attempts to sideline him,” he added. He called Bilawal an angry political child and advised him to focus on debating with politicians at his own level, rather than targeting Khan. He said Khan had an unwavering commitment to Pakistan’s sovereignty and national pride, recalling how he consistently stood firm against foreign conspiracies. He recalled that during PTI’s tenure, no drone attacks occurred within its borders, and no country dared to breach its territorial sovereignty. Khan never relied on foreign intervention to secure deals, unlike Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who negotiated exits to avoid jail time and then left the country in shambles, he said. Mashhood unveils plan to empower ‘marginalised communities’Emotional moment Coleen Rooney breaks down in tears as she enjoys surprise reunion with two youngest sons in I’m A Celeb

Three years ago, a then-6-year-old boy named Ben discovered a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England. He took it home, but then lost track of it. Now, the object has been identified for what it really is: a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal hand ax. When James Sainsbury , curator of archaeology and social history at Worthing Theatres and Museum, received an email from Ben's mother about her son's find, he didn't expect the object to be anything special, Sainsbury told Live Science. "I get emails like this all the time, especially about beach finds, and they're usually just pebbles that look funny," he said. "But as soon as I saw the photo, I thought, 'That's an Upper Paleolithic Neanderthal hand ax.' It's an absolutely incredible find." Neanderthal hand axes are relatively small and dark two-sided flints, which makes them recognizable, according to Sainsbury. They're clearly distinct from the Middle or Lower Paleolithic finds in Sussex. Neanderthals used these tools for activities such as breaking bones to suck out the marrow. Related: 65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal 'glue factory,' study finds Sainsbury specifically identified the artifact as a Mousterian hand ax, meaning "it's from that very late Neanderthal period when their days were really numbered in Europe and Britain." He added that some scholars even suggest that Mousterian hand axes were made by the last Neanderthal generations in that area. "As far as Sussex is concerned, it's really quite rare," Sainsbury said. "In our museum, we have one example and one only. They're extremely rare because presumably the Neanderthal population density was very low ." Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. On Nov. 24, Ben and his family brought the artifact to the Worthing Museum, where Sainsbury confirmed that it was, in fact, a Neanderthal ax. Because of how "fresh" and undamaged it looks, he suspects the artifact had been buried safely underwater for most of its history. "It's very unlikely it would have made it onto shore, at that height on the beach, without it being damaged," he explained. "So I think it was brought in with tons of shingles to increase the beach defenses either from the English Channel, where it would have been dredged from an old riverbed that's now submerged, or from the North Sea, in the area of Doggerland." — 'More Neanderthal than human': How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors — Neanderthals and modern humans interbred 'at the crossroads of human migrations' in Iran, study finds — Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens buried their dead differently, study suggests Doggerland is a now-submerged region beneath the North Sea that was inhabited by prehistoric people before the land was flooded by rising sea levels about 8,000 years ago. Sainsbury and his co-workers are still investigating when the last batch of pebbles was deposited on Shoreham beach. "Ben is 9 now and really knew his stuff — his Bronze Age from his Iron Age from his Romans ," Sainsbury said. "He clearly has a real interest in archaeology ." Ben loaned the hand ax to Worthing Theatres and Museum, and Sainsbury had it on display just an hour after meeting with Ben's family. It will remain there until February, and the curator was happy to report that it has already been attracting more visitors than usual.