President Asif Ali Zardari became the Co-Chairman of the largest political party - Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) - in the country after the assassination of the legendry leader, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, on December 27, 2007. Zardari assumed this role on the basis of being her ...

EMILIA ODC - Cash-for-cheese sounds more like a joke that a serious financial agreement, but in some regions of Italy it’s a reality. The famous Parmesan is so precious that some banks are willing to keep the cheese as collateral against loans to local producers.The Credito Emiliano bank has ...

JALANDHAR OC - It’s not unusual at Indian temples for devotees to make huge offerings of money and food, in exchange for their prayers to answered. But the case of this particular Sikh temple in Punjab is quite strange, even for Indian standards.The narrow, dusty alleyway leading up to the ...

KARACHI (PR) - United Bank Limited’s Branchless Banking Division, Omni has introduced another unique feature, a Mobile App, to enhance the customer’s experience with the service. This is a first ever in the branchless banking industry, with UBL Omni the only bank to offer such a ...

AS if coming down the side of a mountain on two wheels wasn’t hard enough, thrill-seekers have come up with an even crazier sport - extreme mountain unicycling. Saying this sport is dangerous and difficult is probably a huge understatement.If you though unicycling was just a goofy pastime, ...

ISLAMABAD The police have claimed success in tracing a girl, who reportedly fell into a ravine near Pir Sohawa the other day, from the home of her parents in Multan. The Koshar Police have registered a case under Section 182 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against her husband for misleading police ...

RAWALPINDI - Chairman, National Language Authority and eminent poet Iftkhar Arif Saturday at a reference marking first death anniversary of noted humorous poet, novelist and intellectual Mehboob Azmi said that through his humorous and thought-provoking poems Azmi made people smile and ...

ISLAMABAD - A few days back a senior official of the US Embassy explained to a select group of journalists about the much-trumpeted Kerry Lugar Bill that he claimed was an antidote to the unfair treatment given to Pakistan in the Pressler Amendment. But Information Minister Qamur-uz-Zaman Kaira, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Unique variety of wedding costumes showcased at the Lok Virsa is continue to draw attention of visitors toward rich cultural heritage of Pakistan and Norway. Two wedding pairs with beautiful traditional costumes from Norway were on display whereas the Pakistani wedding costumes ...

LAHORE - Intel Corporation has announced four unique versions of processors and two new system controller hub additions to the company's "embedded" business division product line-up. The new products for the Intel(r) Atom(tm) processor Z5xx series include industrial-temperature options, as well as ...

THREE undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned up during their research project, is about five times as massive as Jupiter. This is also the first planet discovered orbiting a fast-rotating hot ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Einstein's theory of general relativity holds up, according to astrophysicists who tested it against a unique cosmological configuration of two pulsars orbiting each other. Pulsars are small and extremely dense stellar objects left behind after massive stars explode. They ...