Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
- Jamaat Ali Shah rejects treason charges
- Letter sent to BlackBerry Company: DAG
- PM will appear before SC on Feb 13, confirms Aitzaz
- India test-fires ballistic missile interceptor
- MQM seeks SC notice over Bilour's interview
- Russia proposes bilateral extradition treaty with US
- Karachi violence claims seven lives
- SC rejects PM Gilani's appeal
The Nation in print for Saturday, April 18, 2009
Front Page
Donors pledge $5.2b to stabilise Pakistan
TOKYO (Agencies) - International donors pledged more than five billion dollars Friday to stabilise poverty-stricken Pakistan, seen as a frontline state in the battle against extremism. The United States and Japan promised one billion dollars each, the European Union pledged 640 million dollars, and ...
Rehana Nizami's death widely condoled
LAHORE/KARACHI/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR - Highest national and provincial government functionaries, heads of various political and ...
No World Cup matches in Pakistan
DUBAI (AFP) - Pakistan was stripped of its 2011 World Cup matches by the International Cricket Council on Friday as growing ...
International
Fact box of events
Here are five facts about security concerns over cricket in Pakistan. * Last month six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team ...
Australia stumble but still top 300
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Australia made a flying start, stumbled in mid-innings but still managed a total of 303 for seven in the ...
Washington asked to act as 'even-handed' broker
RAMALLAH, West Bank, (Agencies) - US special envoy George Mitchell met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Friday amid warnings ...
Mass evacuation as cyclone hits Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG (AFP) - A tropical cyclone hit southeast Bangladesh late Friday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands ...
Schoolgirl 'left in sun to die'
NEW DELHI (AFP) - An 11-year-old Indian schoolgirl died after a teacher allegedly made her stand in the baking sun as punishment ...
Agreement reached for UN anti-racism meet
GENEVA (AFP) - Negotiators said Friday that they had agreed on a declaration for a UN anti-racism conference, shrugging off fears ...
US expects signals of change from Cuba: Obama
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama opened the door the other day to more changes in his Cuba policy, saying his lifting of ...
UN chief urges quick climate change response
UNITED NATIONS - The UN secretary-general Friday called on world leaders to respond with the same urgency to climate change that ...
Shipowners struggle to find safe haven from Somali pirates
OSLO (AFP) - As pirates shift their attacks further from the Somali coast, shipowners, already hit by the global economic crisis, ...
CIA 'amnesty' dismays human, civil rights group
WASHINGTON (Agencies) - Human and civil rights groups in the US have expressed dismay at news that CIA agents will not face ...
68 Afghan migrants held in Indonesia
JAKARTA (AFP) - Sixty-eight migrants from Afghanistan have been arrested in Indonesia as they were planning to enter Australia ...
Thailand's 'yellow shirts' leader shot
BANGKOK (AFP) - The Thai activist who led a blockade of the kingdoms main airports last year was shot and wounded in the head ...
Business
Continuous electricity supply to industry be prioritised in budget
LAHORE - Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has urged the Government to announce a special package of ...
Singapore Airlines offer
KARACHI - Singapore Airlines, together with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Singapore Changi Airport, will offer all its ...
PTA achieves targets set for first quarter
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has completed targets and goals set for the first quarter (January ...
ADB loans rise to $10.5b in 2008
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved $ 10.5 billion in loans in year 2008, showing an increase of 5.3 ...
FBR denies reports
ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has denied reports appearing in a section of the press regarding alleged misplacement ...
Donors' pledge lifts stock market
KARACHI - Equities at Karachi Stock Exchange witnessed a buying trend on Friday amid Japans decision to provide one billion ...
Cross-LoC trade hits Rs16.3 million
MIRPUR, AJK (APP) - For the first time since its launch last year, the cross-LoC trade between Azad Jammu and Kashmir and ...
UBL Funds announces 3rd interim payout
LAHORE - The Board of Directors of UBL Fund Managers Limited announced the interim payouts for the period ended April 14 for its ...
Inflation swelled to 15.01 per cent last week
ISLAMABAD - Inflation measured through Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) swelled to 15.01 per cent in a week ended on Thursday as ...
CCP bench grants interim relief to KSE, LSE
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Appellate Bench of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has granted an interim relief to Karachi ...
Politics
Balochistan situation a conspiracy: PM
ISLAMABAD - Expressing deep concern over existing turmoil in Balochistan, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday said that ...
Pepco readies another 'electric shock'
LAHORE - Director General Energy Conservation of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) Tahir Basharat Cheema has said that the ...
Pilots' go-slow affects flights
LAHORE- PIA pilots have adopted a go-slow approach to press for their demand of further 35 per cent raise in their salaries. It ...
US working to overcome trust deficit
WASHINGTON - Acknowledging a trust deficit between Pakistan and the United States, a State Department spokesman said Friday that ...
LHC CJ refuses to become acting Governor
LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday turned down Governor Salman Taseers offer to become ...
1,842 terror strikes claimed 1,395 lives
ISLAMABAD- National Assembly was told on Friday that a total of 1,395 people were killed in terrorism incidents from January 2008 ...
Hand-grenade lobbed at FIA Quetta office
QUETTA - A man was shot dead and another wounded while unknown people hurled a hand grenade on FIA office in provincial capital ...
Kasab retracts confession
MUMBAI (AFP) - The suspected Pakistani gunman on trial in India for last years Mumbai attacks will plead not guilty and has ...
Taliban exploit class rifts to gain ground in Pakistan: NYT
NEW YORK The Taliban militants have organized landless tenants against wealthy landlords in a strategy that poses broad dangers ...
HIA (Hekmatyar) contacts US for troops pullout
PESHAWAR - The United States based Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) (Hekmatyar) stalwart Daud Abidi has confirmed holding meetings ...
Maulana Aziz asks govt to enforce Islamic law
ISLAMABAD - Thousands of devotees were sitting spell-bound in and outside the mosque premises when cleric, Maulana Abdul Aziz, ...
Tailban set up 'marriage centre' in Swat
TALIBAN have set up a separate department in Swat called 'marriage centre and according to them, about 300 boys and girls are ...
Nawaz appoints Rai Riaz as Press Secy
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has appointed Rai Riaz as his Press Secretary and Nadir Chaudhry as media ...
22 dead as quakes rock Afghanistan
SHERZAD, Afghanistan, (AFP) - Two earthquakes killed up to 22 people in eastern Afghanistan, damaging villages and destroying ...
Minister escapes attack
KANDAHAR (AFP) - A suicide attack targeting an Afghan cabinet minister killed three civilians Friday but failed to harm the ...
Seven killed as Nato truck rams into car
QUETTA - At least seven people were killed including a couple when a trailer trampled a vehicle in Chaman on Friday. According ...
Entertainment
Lopez living in 'hairy' mansion
JENNIFER Lopez apparently lives in a 'hairy house, for she has a room just to store her collection of wigs in her New York ...
Katy Perry thanks Clarkson for covers
KATY Perry has thanked Kelly Clarkson for re-recording two songs that she co-wrote on her recent album. Clarkson included the ...
Kutcher out-tweets CNN in online battle
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher beat media-giant CNN on Friday in a duel to see which could amass one million ...
Holmes' brother-in-law found dead
HOLLYWOOD actress Katie Holmes is mourning the loss of her brother-in-law, it has emerged. Joseph Jeffrey Fretti, husband of ...
How a sitcom a day can keep the doctor away
AS anyone who has had a giggling fit can attest, laughter is good for the soul. But a growing body of research suggests it could ...
MP3 player for unborn babies
PREGNANT mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players ...
Islamabad
PTF's vendetta continues to take its toll on Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tennis Federation's refusal to facilitate the visa of former Davis Cup captain and Pride of Performance ...
Gunfight lands NUML students in lock-up
ISLAMABAD - An incident of violence between two students at National University of Modern Languages (NUML) created panic at the ...
Traffic wardens nab four terror suspects
RAWALPINDI - City traffic wardens arrested four suspects after spotting them taking snaps of some sensitive buildings and ...
First sera processing laboratory at NIH
ISLAMABAD- The ground breaking ceremony of the countrys first world class Sera processing laboratory to be established with an ...
Police recover 14 cars, nab 48 accused
ISLAMABAD Capital police have arrested 48 accused involved in streets crimes and recovered 14 cars and 40 snatched mobile phones ...
ICT for Rs1730.7m budget
ISLAMABAD (Online)- Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police has sought Rs. 173.7 million budget from Federal Government for ...
'Pak scholars can promote country's image abroad'
ISLAMABAD - Tim Butchard, Secretary of the Charles Wallace Trust (CWT), while talking to media men on Friday said that he was ...
National
Pakistan's isolation is complete
THIS is sad because Pakistan Cricketing Board had under its chairman Shaharyar M. Khan played the lead role in securing the ...
Another setback for Pakistan cricket
Ramiz Raja: Obviously it is a painful time for Pakistan cricket. I was hoping the final call on shifting of matches could be ...
Karachi
Overage players to represent country in junior tennis
KARACHI - Two of the three members of Pakistan junior (under-16) team that left here recently for Australia to play in Junior ...
PA passes procurement, lands colonisation bills
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously passed two government bills into law which included Government Bill, 2 of 2009 ...
SSC candidates may be given 2 per cent grace marks: Ebad
KARACHI - Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has said that two per cent grace marks might be awarded to the students, appeared ...
Moot on media strategies in June
KARACHI - Young Social Reformers (YSR), a youth management organisation, will organise a conference called Tipping Point 2009 to ...
Body to probe bogus regularisation of villages
KARACHI - Officials in the revenue department, in collusion with construction mafia, issued fake verifications for regularisation ...
Zardari creating rifts in Bhutto family: Mumtaz
KARACHI - Chairman, Sindh National Front, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has advised Ms. Sanam Bhutto, the younger sister of Shaheed Benazir ...
Taliban plan to target worship places: Altaf
KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Friday said that Taliban had planned to blow up the places of worship belonging to the ...
Lahore
Wife of Majid Nizami laid to rest
LAHORE - Begum Rehana Majid Nizami, wife of Editor-in-Chief, The Nation and Nawa-i-Waqt, Majid Nizami, who died on Thursday ...
DG LDA orders inquiry
LAHORE - Director General Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Shahid Mehmood has ordered Director Admin Mansoor Qadir to probe ...
Young Chinese woman shot injured at airport
LAHORE - A Chinese young woman was shot injured by three unidentified armed men outside Allama Iqbal International Airport in ...
Nepra asked to decide tariff afresh
LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court Friday set aside the industrial electricity tariff determined by ...
People to get roti at Re1 during Ramazan: Khosa
LAHORE-Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab, Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa has said that Chief Ministers Food Support ...
Application filed against 'rude behaviour' of ASP
LAHORE - Some notables of the Johar Town have appealed to the Chief Minister and Inspector General Police (IGP) Punjab to take ...
South Africa refuses to host Pakistan A team matches
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) suffered a setback on Friday when Cricket South Africa (CSA) refused to host its A ...
Young gun Waqas on upset spree
LAHORE - Emerging player Waqas Zahid caused a major upsets of the first Micro Furniture All Pakistan Ranking Badminton ...
Crowe to lead ICC officials in Pakistan-Australia series
LAHORE - Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium set to become the 172nd venue in the world to host an ODI between Pakistan and ...
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