Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Friday, April 25, 2008
Front Page
Soldier, 10 militants die in border clash
PESHAWAR - Amidst conflicting reports about casualties, cross-firing between suspected militants and the US-led allied troops continued right on the Pak-Afghan border at Nawa Pass area of Bajaur Agency on Wednesday. Officials confirmed the killing of a security man and injuries to another. ...
Dichotomy of perception
ISLAMABAD - Members of the National Assembly on the Treasury benches, up against the Musharraf regime's local government system, ...
Move in NA for LG system abolition
ISLAMABAD - National Assembly on Thursday strongly condemned the Coalition Forces' strike in Tribal Areas of Pakistan resulting ...
International
India overwhelmed by heart disease
PARIS (AFP) - By 2010, India will carry 60 per cent of the world's heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of ...
Maoists sweep Nepal assembly elections
KATHMANDU8 (AFP) - Nepal's Maoists pledged Thursday that the world's last Hindu monarchy will be abolished swiftly after final ...
Gaza situation worse than Nazi camps: Libya
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Libya's Deputy UN Ambassador insisted Thursday that the situation in the Gaza Strip is actually "worse" ...
Tape shows N.Korea aided Syrian N. reactor: US claims
WASHINGTON - Videotape purported from a secret Syrian facility convinced Israeli and U.S. officials that North Korea helped Syria ...
Disabled Chinese torch-bearer thrust into spotlight
BEIJING (AFP) - When Chinese disabled fencer Jin Jing was defending the Olympic torch from protesters in Paris, little did the ...
Business
Pak-German investment protection agreement soon
LAHORE - Negotiations are underway on Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement between Pakistan and Germany and hopefully a ...
Bank financing for wheat procurement
KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan has rejected the impression created by certain quarters that the recent decision of the State ...
IFC Trade Programme expands in Pakistan
KARACHI (APP) - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, Thursday announced that Pakistan's MCB Bank Limited has joined IFC Global ...
Mills import record 4.121m bales of $1.6b
KARACHI (APP) - Textile mills have imported a record 4.1 million bales of cotton worth $ 1.6 billion (Rs 66 billion) during nine ...
DCL starts supplying 80 MW electricity to KESC
KARACHI - DHA Congen Ltd (DCL) has started supplying 80 megawatts of electricity to Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC). ...
Rupee falls close to Rs 66 against dollar in open market
KARACHI - The rupee continued to shed value against the US dollar and set a new record on Thursday by falling close to Rs 66 in ...
UK to provide 30 million pounds budgetary support
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The British Government will provide 30 million Pound Sterling to Pakistan as budgetary support before the end ...
Politics
Senate performance over last five years assessed as poo
ISLAMABAD (Online) - The Senate completed its 5th parliamentary year in March 2008 but without satisfactory performance in terms ...
PM blames 'deficient policies' for wheat crisis
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani on Thursday said the government wants to take all political forces ...
Rehman denies any list to expel Khateeb
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Single Bench comprising Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Sardar Mohammad Aslam here on Thursday ...
Loadshedding peaks to 10 hours daily
LAHORE - All the eight electric power distribution companies of PEPCO have resorted to 570 minutes of unannounced loadshedding on ...
Inter-dist wheat ban still intact
LAHORE - The district governments in Punjab are still reluctant to allow inter-district wheat movement despite the fact that the ...
Entertainment
Financial aid to socially-relevant films: Deshmukh
Mumbai (PTI): Maharashtra government is ready to extend financial assistance for making socially-relevant films which find it ...
Report: Snoop Dogg's UK visa ban rejected
LONDON, England (AP) -- A British court has overruled the government's decision to deny Snoop Dogg a visa after he was involved ...
Coachella 'different than most festivals'
No festival is more predicated on the elements than the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. The Coachella music ...
Adlabs sets up new theatre in Tamil Nadu
New Delhi (PTI): Adlabs Cinemas, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and entertainment company Adlabs Films, on ...
Islamabad
'BB's dream of democracy to become true'
ISLAMABAD - Syeda Zeenat Ara, a worker of Pakistan People's Party (PPP), has said that the blood of Shaheed leader Benazir Bhutto ...
Pakistan Post workers demand raise in wages
RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Post's employees of its department Mail Sorting Transpiration staged protest outside the post office ...
No more gimmicks
A barely literate villager came to learn a mathematical method of averages. Once during trudging in company of his family ...
272 outlaws held in current year
ISLAMABAD - Federal Capital Police arrested 272 outlaws, including 85 proclaimed offenders, 154 court absconders and 33 military ...
CDWP yet to approve Role Back Malaria programme
ISLAMABAD - The approval of the PC-1 of Role Back Malaria programme is again in doldrums as the PC-1 was expected to get a green ...
Applicants still waiting for response
ISLAMABAD - Thousands of unemployed graduates and postgraduates across Pakistan are waiting anxiously about their fate after ...
Karachi
MQM-H activist killed
KARACHI - Sector incharge of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi was found dead Thursday within the jurisdiction of Gulshan-e-Iqbal ...
CDGK unveils draft budget worth Rs 47.662b for 2008-09
Karachi - The draft budget of the City District Government Karachi for the financial year 2008-09 was presented in the city ...
Plight of street children worsens
KARACHI - The problem of street children is getting worse in the metropolis as they are fast falling victims to violence, ...
Lahore
Pakistan's assistant coach resigns
LAHORE - Former Olympian Shahbaz junior has resigned at the assistant coach of the Pakistan national team here on Thursday. ...
Differences with PHF are now history: Islahuddin
LAHORE - Chairman national hockey selection committee Islahuddin Siddiqui said that his differences with the Pakistan Hockey ...
Punjab hockey team off to Amritsar
LAHORE - Punjab Women Hockey will represent Pakistan during 6th ONGC Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh Women Hockey Gold Cup ...
Lawyers not ready to accept fixation of CJ's tenure
LAHORE - The lawyers' mammoth rally on Thursday was focused on the issue that they would not accept fixation of chief justice's ...
Govt's decision shocks officials, stakeholders
LAHORE - The Punjab governments' decision to seal record of all the local governments in the province came as a big surprise for ...
Sale of split ACs surges with raise in mercury
LAHORE- The sale of split air conditioners have surged in the markets of the Punjab Capital with increase in the mercury level. ...
Family members meet Sarabjit in jail
LAHORE - Five family members of Indian condemned prisoner Sarabjit Singh, allegedly involved in bomb blasts in Punjab, met him in ...
Mohafiz Squad kills youth during scuffle
LAHORE - Wahdat Colony Mohafiz Squad police shot dead a youth, Imran, and arrested his two friends when they offered resistance ...
Stakeholders scared of one-dish law
LAHORE - The Punjab cabinet's first decision to strictly implement the one-dish law in marriage ceremonies has sent chill down ...
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