Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
- Terror trial of accused Bali bomber starts Monday
The Nation in print for Sunday, April 05, 2009
Front Page
UN official John Solecki set free
QUETTA-UNHCR official John Solecki was released by Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) after keeping in captivity for over two months. 'We are releasing John Solecki on humanitarian grounds, and should serve as a message to UN and world community, that Baloch people are not terrorists, but an ...
64 bodies found in container
QUETTA - At least 64 bodies and dozens of unconscious people were recovered from a shipping container in Hazar Ganji area of the ...
Bomber strikes FC camp in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD - A suicide attack Saturday evening at the Frontier Constabulary makeshift camp in the posh area of the federal ...
International
Hussey leads OZs to crushing 141-run triumph
DURBAN (AFP) - Mike Hussey ended a run of poor form with a match-winning innings for Australia in the first one-day ...
Ponting hails Aussie match-winner Hussey
DURBAN (AFP) - Captain Ricky Ponting hailed the return to form of Mike Hussey as Australia gained a crushing 141-run win over ...
Djokovic topples Federer to book Miami meeting with Murray
MIAMI (AFP) - Once-invincible Roger Federer was reduced to a rare bout of racket-bashing Friday as he was toppled in the ...
England beat West Indies, clinch ODI series
GROS ISLET (AFP) - England beat West Indies by 26 runs to win the fifth and final one-day international here on Friday and ...
India in box seat for NZ series win
WELLINGTON (AFP) - India took a big step towards winning their first Test series in New Zealand since 1968 after racking up a ...
Nato boosts Afghan troops, names leader
STRASBOURG (AFP) - Nato leaders pledged thousands more troops for their Afghan mission Saturday and named the organisations next ...
Sri Lanka kills 111 rebels
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops advancing on the last remaining pockets of rebel resistance killed at least 111 Tamil Tigers in ...
Obama leads condemnation of Afghan women's law
STRASBOURG, France (AFP) - US President Barack Obama led a chorus of disapproval at a summit of NATO leaders on Saturday against ...
Khemenei hails Venezuela's cut in Israel ties
TEHRAN (AFP) - Irans supreme leader Ali Khemenei hailed on Saturday as a courageous step the Venezuelan governments decision to ...
Karzai rejects criticism, pledges review
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday rejected Western criticism that a new law imposes Taliban-style restrictions ...
Mass grave found in Croatia
ZAGREB (AFP) - A mass grave dating from World War II and containing the remains of up to 4,500 people, including German officers ...
NKorea keeps world guessing on satellite launch date
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea kept the world guessing about its planned satellite launch Saturday after the first day of a scheduled ...
Protests turn ugly at Nato summit
STRASBOURG (AFP) - Protesters clashed with riot police and set property ablaze in Strasbourg during Saturdays 60th anniversary ...
Police hunt clues after NY shooting
BINGHAMTON, New York (AFP) - US police Saturday sought to discover why a jobless immigrant snapped, going on a murderous rampage ...
24 Afghan children found living in Rome sewer system
ROME (AFP) - Italian police have discovered 24 Afghan children living in filthy conditions in the sewer system under a Rome ...
Business
Textile exports fall by 5.6 per cent in eight months
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Textile exports during the first eight months of current financial registered negative growth of 5.6 percent as ...
SBP predicts significant agriculture growth
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has said that all the prevalent indications leading that the agricultural growth will be ...
Rs42b available to banks for export financing: SBP
KARACHI - Syed Salim Raza, Governor State Bank of Pakistan has said that an amount of Rs 42 billion is currently available with ...
NSS rates, foreign inflows drive market up 9.3 per cent
LAHORE - Lowering of National Savings Schemes (NSS) rates and foreign inflows from the IMF and World Bank drove the market ...
Tarin gives away 'Corporate Philanthropy Awards' to top companies
KARACHI - Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, and Statistics, Shaukat Tarin gave away the 3rd ...
PC receives seven EoIs for JPCL thermal power stations
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Privatisation Commission (PC) has received seven (7) Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from prospective ...
Unisame urges exporters to focus on CARs states
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has urged the SME exporters to focus on Central Asian Republics ...
Sultani appointed PC's RD Food
KARACHI - Sheikh Sultani has been appointed at Regional Director Food and Beverage, South, Pearl Continental Hotel, ...
KESC embarks on 'Integrated Business Centre' drive
KARACHI - KESC embarks on an 'Integrated Business Centre drive from 8th April to be pilot-tested in the demographically diverse ...
Politics
Suicide, drone attacks kill 30 in Waziristan
PESHAWAR - At least 30 people including five schoolgoing children were killed and more than 20 others injured in two attacks at ...
Congress plans curbs on US aid
WASHINGTON-Refusal to provide additional money for upgrading Pakistans ageing F-16s jets is one of the several benchmarks the US ...
CJ vows to purge judiciary of black sheep
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Saturday vowed to root out corruption from existing judicial ...
SBP lowers growth target to 2.5-3.5pc
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan cut gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the 2008/09 fiscal year to 2.5-3.5 per ...
Daylight energy saving from May 1
LAHORE - Clocks across the country will be moved one hour ahead from May 1 with a view to avail an extra hour of daylight in ...
Dist Nazims' uplift funds frozen again
ISLAMABAD - With the restoration of Shahbaz Sharif government in Punjab by the apex court, ambitious District Nazims of the ...
'N' not to join govt till 17th Amend repeal
MULTAN - Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif Saturday dispelled the impression that Punjab government was restored under a ...
8 militants die in Mohmand
MOHMAND AGENCY - As many as eight militants were killed and 12 others injured, when Jet fighter plane and gunship helicopters ...
UN chief pleased with Solecki's release
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "gratified" at the release on Saturday of John Solecki, an American U.N. ...
Aid key to Pak struggle, says Obama
STRASBOURG (Agencies) - President Barack Obama has said NATO is committed to strengthening Pakistans ability and meet the needs ...
Taliban term girl's flogging visual fake
MINGORA - In the wake of growing resentment over flogging of the young girl in public, the Taliban militants have taken another ...
Pak-US joint operation against TTP leaders
LONDON - Pakistans Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the US have started the joint operation to kill Baitullah Mehsud, The ...
FBI rules out Baitullah's claim
NEW YORK - The FBI on Saturday dismissed Pakistani Taliban leader Baituallah Mehsuds claim that he was responsible for an attack ...
4 more Taliban released
SWAT - In pursuance of peace agreement with militants, he government on Saturday released four more Taliban and now the total ...
NA to meet on 9th
ISLAMABAD (Online) - President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the session of the National Assembly on April 9 at 4:00pm. According ...
Khasadar Force starts patrolling in Miranshah
MIRANSHAH - The political administration and Khasadar Force became active after three years long period and started routine ...
Nato soldier, 35 insurgents dead in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) - A soldier in a NATO-led force fighting an extremist insurgency in Afghanistan died in a bomb blast Saturday while ...
FPCCI to form political party
WAZIRABAD (APP) - Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has decided to form a political party ...
Entertainment
New cotton crop rate touches Rs3,800/maund
KARACHI (APP) - Rate for new cotton crop has touched Rs 3800 per maund (37.324 kg) as cotton spot rate has jumped by Rs 50 to ...
Goody laid to rest
REALITY TV star Jade Goody bade farewell to her audience for the last time in a recorded message played at her funeral. ...
Demi Moore credited with saving suicidal woman
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Actress Demi Moore may have had a role the other day in thwarting a possible suicide attempt after a woman ...
Lytton linked to latest American Pie
FORMER EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton has been linked to the next movie in the American Pie franchise. The Daily Mail reports ...
Girl having 1 hand, 4 kidneys to become model
A TEENAGER who was born with one hand, four kidneys and a debilitating stomach condition is fulfilling her childhood dream of ...
Costa Rica in tizzy over Bundchen-Brady wedding
SANTA TERESA, Costa Rica (AFP) - Expectations of a second wedding Saturday between supermodel Gisele Bundchen and US football ...
Sleep may help clear brain for new learning
A NEW theory about sleeps benefits for the brain gets a boost from fruit flies in the journal Science. Researchers at Washington ...
Islamabad
PCB to evaluate Miandad, Altaf powers soon
ISLAMABAD - Director Human Resource and Admin, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wasim Bari said Saturday that chairman PCB Ijaz Butt ...
Bhutto's services eulogised
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LG&RD) Abdul Razaq A Tahim Saturday paid tributes ...
CDA centres to minimise after-effects of disasters
ISLAMABAD- Capital Development Authority (CDA)s Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management has decided to establish five ...
Six outlaws arrested
ISLAMABAD - Capital police have arrested six accused involved in car lifting, theft and illicit weapons and recovered stolen car ...
Civic society, Ulema condemn Swat girl flogging
ISLAMABAD - A bizarre situation developed on Saturday during protest demonstration organised by civil society against the ...
MoU inked to support vocational training reforms
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - National Vocational & Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC), Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and ...
'Loadshedding to continue'
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) on Saturday said that there is no change in the schedule of load ...
Karachi
PCB women wing ego hurting cricket, says Kiran
KARACHI - Pakistan's batting world record holder women cricketer Kiran Baloch has said that the PWCCA which she said still is ...
Epidemic proportions of typhoid feared
KARACHI - Enteric Typhoid fever has engulfed large parts of Karachi as numbers of patients have been reported to be admitted in ...
Civil society protests against public flogging
KARACHI (PPI) - The National Commission on the Status of Women and other civil society organisations staged a protest ...
Pollution smothering Karachiites
KARACHI - Despite launching several awareness campaigns to control the air pollution in the major cities of the country ...
Outages continue to vex summer-hit Karachiites
KARACHI (PPI) - As the temperature has started rising up, power load-shedding upto six hours on daily basis is being carried out ...
Anita Ghulam Ali Award ceremony held in City
KARACHI - The Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Female Education Trust (FET) and Oxford University Press (OUP) on Saturday organised ...
ZAB's death anniversary breathes new life into PPP
KARACHI - The marking of the 30th death anniversary of the PPP founder hairman Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has given a boost to the party ...
Lahore
Australia regain top spot in ODI rankings
LAHORE - Australia have regained the number one spot in the International Cricket Council's ODI Championship table after ...
Rashid bows out of Kings Cup Boxing
LAHORE - Pakistan got first defeat on the 31st Kings Cup International Boxing Tournament when Rashid Fateh lost to a Russian ...
Pakistan face Malaysia in Azlan Cup opener today
LAHORE - The 18th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament will begin from today (Sunday) in Ipoh, Malaysia. All the five ...
Citizens protest flogging of girl in Swat
LAHORE- The Citizens of Lahore Saturday took out a peace rally condemning the Swat incident of flogging a young girl in the ...
Academic council to protest decision
LAHORE - Vice Chancellor King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Prof Dr Zafarullah Khan has called an emergency meeting of the ...
Real problem is rulers: Shamshad
LAHORE - Ex-foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad Khan has said Pakistan is being encircled and US President Barak Obama is pursuing ...
Police refuse to register case
LAHORE - Naseer Abad police have refused to register a case against the incharge chowki police, South Cantt and some police ...
Notice against delay in hospitals' upgradation
LAHORE - Commissioner Lahore Khusru Pervez Khan has took strict notice of delay in the up gradation of two public hospitals, 'Kot ...
2 reappointed, 9 transferred
LAHORE - The Punjab government on Saturday reappointed two heads, while transferring and posting nine officers. Nazar Muhammad ...
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