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 Monday, April 06, 2009
Front Page
Suicide bomber kills 24 in Chakwal
CHAKWAL/RAWALPINDI - At least 24 people, including three children, were killed and 140 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of an Imambargahs central gate on Sunday. Around 35 of the injured people were reported to be in a critical condition. According to details, the incident ...
Taliban threaten two suicide attacks per week
BAJAUR AGENCY - Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Bajaur Chapter, on Sunday termed the National Identity Card (NIC) for women and ...
Obama sees world without nuclear arms
PRAGUE (Agencies) - US President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to lead a quest for a world purged of nuclear weapons, denouncing ...
International
US diplomat voices concern over flogging of Swat girl
NEW YORK - The United States is "very firm" on ensuring universal respect for human rights, American Ambassador to the United ...
Obama to ease Cuba travel: report
NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama plans to remove long-standing travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans wishing to visit ...
Serena crashes to Azarenka in final
MIAMI (AFP) - Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka clinched the first major title of her career on Saturday by beating top seed ...
Parnell outshines role models in South African romp
CENTURION (AFP) - Barely a year after captaining the South African Under-19 team, left-arm swing bowler Wayne Parnell played a ...
Kenya halt Afghanistan's victory roll
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Resurgent Kenya halted the victory roll of giantkillers Afghanistan Saturday with a 107-run win in the 2011 ...
Russia, China likely to resist US-led campaign for punishing N. Korea
UNITED NATIONS - The United States-led push for new U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea for launching a ...
Obama, Sarkozy spar over Turkey EU bid
PRAGUE (AFP) - US President Barack Obama threw his backing Sunday behind Turkeys bid to join the European Union before being ...
Abbas praises Iraq on first post-Saddam visit
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas praised Iraq on Sunday for supporting his people, without making mention of ...
Sarkozy wants 'hooligans' punished over Nato protests
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Sunday for protesters who set fire to a hotel, smashed windows and clashed ...
US congressmen see joint regional interests with Syria
DAMASCUS (AFP) - A visiting US congressional team met Syrias President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday and voiced optimism that the two ...
Syrian security court jails 12
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrias controversial state security court has jailed 12 people, including five Kurds and one woman, for prison ...
Turkey rewarded for backing next Nato leader
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey secured concessions for backing Danish leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen as next Nato leader, including promises ...
Al-Qaeda warns against re-election of Bouteflika
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda has warned Algerians against re-electing ferocious enemy President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Thursdays ...
Politics
Bloodbath feared in Buner
PESHAWAR - Dozens of Taliban militants entered Gokand Valley, Buner, from adjacent district Swat via Kareer Pass in the night ...
PM summons meeting on law and order
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has summoned a high-level meeting on the countrys law and order situation here ...
Six troops killed in Dera Bugti blast
QUETTA - At least six personnel of the security forces were reportedly killed in Dera Bugti district on late Sunday night. As per ...
Swat girl denies flogging incident
PESHAWAR - The girl who was reportedly flogged in Swat has denied the incident and termed the happening as baseless and beyond ...
No blank cheque to US either: FM
MULTAN (APP) - Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday that no foreign military boot will step in Pakistan ...
PM for reopening ZAB murder case
LAHORE (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the trial of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto must be reopened so that ...
Mullen working on 'second cup of tea' with Kayani
WASHINGTON (AFP) - For the United States, much may be riding on an unlikely relationship between Americas highest ranking ...
Obama asked to recognise Pakistan as nuclear power
WASHINGTON (Agencies) - The Obama Administration should encourage the Indo-Pak dialogue, including back-channel diplomacy on ...
Mushahid calls for setting up anti-terror office
ISLAMABAD - PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain urged the government to counter terrorism on war-footing by forging ...
New troops will turn tide on Taliban: US
KABUL (Agencies) - The top US military commander and special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan arrived in Kabul Sunday for ...
John Solecki leaves Quetta for home
QUETTA - Head of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Balochistan John Solecki, who was freed yesterday evening in ...
Afghans' bodies handed over to diplomat
QUETTA - Forty-five bodies of Afghan nationals who had died in a shipping container due to suffocation have been handed over to ...
200 Makkah mosques 'face wrong direction'
RIYADH (AFP) - Worshippers at about 200 old mosques in Makkah have been praying in the wrong direction for decades because the ...
420 Tigers killed in latest Sri Lanka gunbattles
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankas President Sunday declared that his military campaign was about to end with the defeat of the Tamil ...
18 militants killed in Mohmand
MOHMAND AGENCY - At least 18 militants were killed and 20 others injured on Sunday in an intensified operation of the security ...
Girls' school blown up in Bannu
BANNU (Online) - A girls school was blown up by some unknown miscreants here Sunday. Police sources said that some unknown ...
Father shoots dead five children in US
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Five children aged between seven and 16 have been found dead at their mobile home south of Seattle after ...
SC hears girl flogging case today
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Eight-member larger bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will hear case ...
Entertainment
Birthday celebration 97-year-old man skydives from 10,000ft
A 97-year-old daredevil, believed to be Britains oldest skydiver, jumped from an aircraft the other day. George Moyse and his ...
Minogue is 'addicted' to X Factor
DANNII MINOGUE has revealed that she feels addicted to The X Factor after two years of appearing on the hit talent show. The ...
Edison braves death threat to plug movie
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Despite being a little bit afraid scandal-hit Asian pop star Edison Chen braved a death threat to appear in ...
Halliwell not planning chart comeback
GERI HALLIWELL has confirmed that she has no plans to return to pop music in the near future. The singer has concentrated on her ...
Top US designers 'unhappy' with Michelle Obama
THE reviews for Michelle Obama on her overseas debut as First Lady have been fulsome but some of the best-known names in American ...
Star designer Ozwald splits up with his wife
DESIGNER to the stars Ozwald Boateng and his glamorous Russian wife Gyunel are to divorce. Twice-married Boateng, 41, who has a ...
Islamabad
New speed breakers irk commuters
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Residents of twin cities have demanded of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for replacement of speed ...
Ajoka stages Hotel Mohenjodaro
ISLAMABAD (APP)- The Ajoka Theater staged its popular performance Hotel Mohenjodaro based on a short story by Ghulam Abbas here ...
CDA warns of investment
ISLAMABAD (Online) - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has warned citizens against investment in illegal housing schemes in ...
Home tuitiona private but respectable profession
ISLAMABAD - In order to meet the growing day-to-day needs, a large number of masses has resorted to the alternative means of ...
PIMS for more security personnel
ISLAMABAD (APP)- The administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has requested the Ministry of Interior to ...
RPO suspends police officials
RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Nasir Khan Durrani has suspended police officials including an inspector, a ...
National
Nasir, Ali win National Jr Squash U-17, U-15 titles
PESHAWAR (APP) - Nasir Iqbal of PAF and Ali Bokhari of Punjab clinched Under-17 and Under-15 titles respectively in the ...
Karachi
MQM stages massive protest rallies
KARARCHI - MQM on Sunday observed a condemnation day against the flogging of girl in Swat. MQM has vowed that it would never ...
Sindh to make at-source loan deductions
KARACHI - Following the footprints of federal government, the Sindh government has decided to make deductions of Rs3.595 billion ...
Blasts, blood and flogging
The current fresh and vigorous wave of bomb blasts, killings of innocent citizens and the security personnel and the hair-raising ...
Multinationals fleecing patients in Pakistan
KARACHI (PPI) - At least 400 children suffering from diarrhoea and 500 from pneumonia, majority of them belonging to very poor ...
Dalit Solidarity Network launched
KARACHI - Social movements, NGOs, labour and other civil society organisations on Sunday demanded the government to restore 6 ...
Textile Asia Show launched at Expo Centre
KARACHI (PPI) - Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Federal Advisor on Textiles, Ministry of Textile Industry, Government of Pakistan, along ...
Lahore
Pakistan-Australia ODI series on schedule: PCB
LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has rubbished speculation that the One-dayers against Australia could be ...
Pakistan lose to Malaysia in opener
LAHORE - The Pakistan senior hockey team lost its opener of the Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament to hosts Malaysia 3-2 in a game ...
Another Pakistani crashes out of Thailand event
LAHORE - Another Pakistan boxer lost in the King's Cup International Boxing Tournament on second day at Bangkok, Thailand. ...
Blind cricket's Agha Shaukat passes away
LAHORE - The founding member of the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council Agha Shaukat Ali breathed his last on Saturday due to cardiac ...
Chakwal, Sialkot move into quarters
LAHORE - Two more pre quarter-finals were decided in the 11th National Seniors Cricket Cup with Chakwal Seniors and Sialkot ...
Pakistan hold Taipei to 1-1 draw
LAHORE - Offensive midfielder Adnan Farooq Ahmed, who used to play for Port Vale in England, gave sigh of relief to Pakistan as ...
New health policy by month-end
LAHORE - Federal Secretary Health Khushnood Akhtar Lashari has said that new national health policy will be announced at the end ...
TMOs after pigeons and balloons
LAHORE - The each TMO of Lahore had been assigned a tedious and challenging task to manage 500 pigeons and 2000 balloons by the ...
Sasti Roti Scheme to be made public drive: Shahbaz
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif presided over a high-level meeting here on Sunday in which important ...
A week full of events
There was so much happening that it seemed that there was just too much pressure around the place. After all, which other ...
People at mercy of officialdom
LAHORE - People are experiencing great hardships due to closure of Lahore-Kasur wagon service plying from Niazi Chowk to Kasur. ...
Govt to spread education across Punjab, says minister
LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Education and Excise, Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said the government would spread the ...
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