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CHARSADDA: Four persons including two girls were gunned down over a loan matter in Tarangzai area of Charsadda, Geo News reported Friday.
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The PPP has retained Qaim Ali Shah as chief minister of Sindh. With the defeat of the party in three provinces, it was hoped that new people, who could deliver, would be brought in.
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ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Thursday left the Prime Minister's House after spending two months and six days there just a few days before new prime minister takes reign of the government.
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The technology, which aims to remove the need to enter passwords and replace them simply with a phone being close to a user's body, was one of the suggestions Dennis Woodside, Motorola's chief executive, California's D11 conference yesterday.
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image KARACHI: On Thursday, until mid day, KSE-100 Index was at 21768.28 with a positive change of 177.62 and volume of 154,813,900 shares.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 has achieved the feat of being Samsung's fastest selling smartphone clocking 10 million shipments since its launch in April.
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WASHINGTON - Iran has become more active in its state sponsorship of terrorism in 2012, US Department of State charged on Thursday in its annual report to Congress on trends in political violence, Voice of Russia.
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BEIRUT—Activists say Syrian troops have attacked a convoy trying to evacuate wounded people from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing at least seven.
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Investigators have identified a person of interest as they seek the sender of three apparently licin-tainted letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama, sources tell CBS News.
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Washington: The United States on Thursday lifted a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opened access to Internet services and social media, aiming to help the Iranian people circumvent tough government controls.
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Drummer Lee Rigby was returning from duty at the Tower of London when he was hacked to death by two men, the opening of an inquest into his death heard this morning.
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WASHINGTON: The United States Department of State Thursday said that it could not confirm the death of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) second-in-command, Wali-ur-Rehman Mehsud's death in a drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt, Geo News reported.
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PESHAWAR: The members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly are due to elect the leader of the house (chief minister) Friday, Geo News reported.
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LAHORE: The registrar's office of the Supreme Court on Thursday raised an objection on the petition seeking extension to the term of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by one year and 10 months after his retirement due on December 11 this year.
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ISLAMABAD, May 30: In what appears to be a surprise move, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Thursday not only revised downward the rate of sales tax on mobile phones, but also changed the mode of collection.
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PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Thursday submitted an inquiry report about embezzlement in the exploration of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Chanda Oilfield in Kohat in which the bureau had found ...
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KARACHI, May 30: Standard Chartered on Thursday announced its digital banking vision aimed at enhancing the customer banking experience in Pakistan, a press release said.
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KARACHI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday that Pakistan would be suspended if the government authorities continued to disrupt the operations of the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA).
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Karachi: The suspended Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Zaka Ashraf is hiring top lawyers of the country to defend him in the Islamabad High Court which has stopped him from working in his present capacity.
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LONDON: Pakistani Briton, boxer Amir Khan, is getting hitched with his US-born fiancée, Faryal Makhdoom, in New York City today (Friday).
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NEW YORK | Fri May 31, 2013 1:37am IST. NEW YORK May 30 (Reuters) - Actor and comedian Jim Carrey will publish a children's book, "How Roland Rolls," in September, his publisher said on Thursday.
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More than 120 children have died across Punjab of measles - a disease that can be prevented. The relevant ministries and departments seem helpless in containing this deadly outbreak.
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PARIS--French automotive group Renault SA (RNO.FR) said Friday it has discussed possible cooperation with Japanese auto maker Mitubishi Motors Corp.
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SANTA CLARA, CA, May 30, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX(TM) 700M series of notebook GPUs, which enable gaming notebook PC designs that are smaller and more powerful than ever before.
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Google is commemorating the achievements of the scientist Julius Richard Petri today with a Google Doodle that shows his invention - the Petri dish - in action.
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A study has found that simply the return journey to the red planet would expose people to radiation levels which would represent a large proportion of their lifetime dose.
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As per recent reports, the International Coordinating Council of Unesco's Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) has added 12 new sites from different countries in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
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The asteroid will pass Earth at a distance equivalent to 15 times the span between Earth and the Moon. At 1.7 miles across, nine cruise ships the size of the QE2 could fit within its diameter.
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