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 19, 2008
Front Page
Khosa vows to change system
LAHORE - Accusing the former Chief Minister of wasting billions on his personal luxuries, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa announced 70 per cent cut in CM Secretariat expenditure. He was addressing members of Punjab Assembly after taking vote of confidence on Friday. Khosa ...
Opposition stages walkout
LAHORE - The Opposition in Punjab Assembly on Friday walked out from the House in protest against what its leaders called ...
Foreigners' access to NCA not to be allowed: Qureshi
ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Friday made it loud and clear that government would not allow any ...
International
Olympic torch arrives in Bangkok
BANGKOK (AFP) - The Olympic flame arrived in Bangkok early Friday for what Thai authorities hope will be a trouble-free leg of ...
Pope urges human rights; says unilateral acts undermine U.N.
UNITED NATIONS Pope Benedict XVI came to the U.N. Friday to emphasize that human rights - more than force or pragmatic politics - ...
Bush admin duped Gen Myers over grilling techniques
LONDON - A professor of law at University College London has revealed that the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General ...
Eight killed in new Baghdad fighting
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fresh clashes erupted between Shia militiamen and Iraqi and US forces in the Baghdad district of Sadr City on ...
Six jailed for 'backing terror'
LONDON (AFP) - A Muslim was jailed Friday for four and a half years for terror-related offences. Abu Izzadeen, found guilty ...
56 missing as tropical storm hits Chinag
BEIJING (AFP) - Fifty-six Chinese fishermen were missing Friday as one of the earliest typhoons to hit the region in six decades ...
Israel is dying: Iran's top Imam
TEHRAN (AFP) - A high-ranking Iranian Imam on Friday said the country should grow into a military superpower to defend all ...
Hillary, Obama trade fire as Pennsylvania looms
WASHINGTON (AFP) - White House hopeful Hillary Clinton traded vicious barbs with her Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday as ...
Benedict urged to lead Muslim-Catholic dialogue
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Muslim leaders said they urged Pope Benedict XVI at a meeting Thursday to help establish a permanent ...
Israel invites bids to build 100 settler homes
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Friday invited bids to further develop two settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite ...
Britain stirring up unrest in Zimbabwe: Mugabe
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe came out fighting on Friday in his first major speech since disputed polls, ...
Business
Auto sales down 10pc
KARACHI - The sale of automobiles has registered a decline of 10 per cent to around 157,000 units in the first nine months of ...
Sugar millers stop payment of Rs14 billion to cane growers
LAHORE - The sugar millers have stopped the payment of around Rs 14 billion to the growers, saying that the millers are not in a ...
Market touches 15,700 - new historic intra-day high
LAHORE - The stock market on the last trading day of the week continued its climbing thrust for new peaks and touched 15,700 ...
Politics
Lady health worker killed in Mohmand
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Suspected militants shot dead a female health worker overnight in Mohmand Agency, residents and officials said ...
Forward bloc in reverse gear
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani set a new tradition in the National Assembly on Friday by himself answering in the ...
Entertainment
EW review: Remember 'Sarah Marshall'
Wrong as it is to objectify the male body, I'll make an exception for that of Jason Segel in "Forgetting Sarah ...
Teen vampire-love story Twilight' being filmed in Oregon
PORTLAND (Oregon) (AP): Vampires aren't supposed to see the light of day. But the sun keeps shining on the set of Twilight,'' an ...
Technology, cheaper costs woo foreign producers to Bollywood
New Delhi (PTI): With its ever increasing popularity, the Indian film industry, which is already generating more than $ 11 ...
'Gandhi', 'Calcutta 71' to be screened at Pak film festival
Lahore (PTI): The widely acclaimed Indian films "Gandhi" and "Calcutta 71" will be part of the South Asian ...
Islamabad
'Public-private partnership needed'
ISLAMABAD - To ensure better healthcare facilities to common man, the Ministry of Health will value the support of ...
PTCL customers' facilitation camps programme
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has extended the programme of setting up Customers' ...
Pakistan, Canada enjoy cordial relations: Kaira
ISLAMABAD - The Canadian High Commissioner David B. Collins called on the Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Northern Areas ...
Labour Party to be forced not to support India: Sultan
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Former AJK Prime Minister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry on Friday said a petition will be presented in annual ...
Govt approves seven new tourism projects
ISLAMABAD - The government has approved seven new development projects in the tourism sector and the PC-1 and PC-2 of all the ...
National
Pakistan Jr hockey team draw 3-3 against S Africa
LAHORE - Pakistan junior hockey team drew 3-3 against Olympic qualifiers South Africa Seniors in a well-fought encounter at ...
ICC to review Pakistan security in May
LAHORE - The International Cricket Council Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed said a security assessment of Pakistan will be ...
Yousuf not in Pakistan squad for Twenty20
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a 15-member team for the Twenty20 match against Bangladesh with name of ...
WICB turns down Pakistan's invitation
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board's effort to hold a home series received another jolt with the West Indies refused to accept ...
Pakistan strong enough to record 11th ODI win
KARACHI - Pakistan enter the fifth and the final match of the ODI against Bangladesh here Saturday afternoon at the National ...
Karachi
Need stressed for urgent reforms in election commission
Karachi - The European Union Election Observation Mission has said to further strengthen democracy in Pakistan it is necessary ...
Haider hails Pak ratification of UN instruments
KARACHI - Iqbal Haider, Co-Chairperson Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, has welcomed the ratification of three core UN human ...
Demand to declare MQM terrorist party slammed
KARACHI - MQM Rabita Committee members have denounced the demands of Punjab Bar Council, Lahore Bar Council, lawyers associations ...
Increase in petroleum prices condemned
KARACHI (PPI) - Amir Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Sindh, Assadullah Bhutto has strongly condemned the recent hike in petroleum prices and ...
Injustice gives rise to terrorism: Khuro
KARACHI - Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuro has said that people of Pakistan especially women have been suffering from the ...
Lahore
'Some of us' behind Nov 3 measures: Bhagwandas
LAHORE Justice Rana Bhagwandas has said that November-3 extra constitutional measures were not only meant to insult judiciary but ...
VVIP culture to be abolished soon: IG
LAHORE - The new Inspector General Police Punjab Shaukat Javed has said that VVIP culture, which had almost damaged the existing ...
Minor girl's rapist bail opposed
LAHORE - Four lawyers of the Lahore High Court voluntarily have submitted their power of attorneys into the court on behalf of ...
Constitution, not parliament, supreme
LAHORE - Justice(r) Wajihuddin has said the parliament does not enjoy unbridled powers and Constitution not the parliament is ...
WB calls for re-evaluation of edu policies
LAHORE - The World Bank has called for re-evaluation of education policies in the context of a dramatic increase in private ...
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