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 Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Front Page
Bomb hits Air Force mini-truck
PESHAWAR - At least 13 persons including five personnel of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) were killed and 18 others got critically injured when a remote-controlled bomb hit two vehicles at Bara Bridge on Kohat Road in the jurisdiction of Banamari Police Station here on Tuesday. Taliban claimed ...
Musharraf likely to resign soon after 14th
ISLAMABAD - After the hectic efforts by the powers that be, President Pervez Musharraf has finally decided to step down soon ...
Impeachment motion next week
ISLAMABAD - Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman said Tuesday the impeachment motion against President Musharraf would be ...
Azadi Show at Aiwan-e-Sadr today Gilani cancels
ISLAMABAD - The tug-of-war for holding of Azadi Show between the Presidency and PM House ended Tuesday when the Prime Minister ...
International
Pakistan take on Canada today
BEIJING"Having lost the first outing against Great Britain, as far as Pakistan is concerned out of the remaining four every ...
Serbian duo, Williams sisters outclass rivals
BEIJING (AFP) - The Williams sisters and the Serbian duo of Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic all blitzed their second-round ...
Technology in focus as Phelps has a party in the pool
BEIJING - With as many as 19 gold medals up for grabs, the 25-year old US swimmer Aaron Peirsol was the first to dash to one at ...
PSB to launch hunt talent programme
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has decided to hunt the talent in six games " athletics, wrestling, squash, karate, ...
Russia halts military action against Georgia
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the ...
Sens for Kabul control over foreign troops
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan senators demanded Tuesday that international troops operating in Afghanistan be brought ...
New Srebrenica mass grave found in Bosnia
SARAJEVO (AFP) - A new mass grave believed to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in ...
Infighting doomed Hillary's White House effort
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Fierce infighting undermined the US presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton as she rejected calls to paint ...
Report baseless: Erakat
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered a peace plan giving the Palestinians 93 per cent of the occupied ...
Moscow must reverse course: US President
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W Bush sharply warned Russia to end its war in Georgia, saying a "dramatic and brutal ...
Lebanon cabinet wins trust vote
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's new national unity government won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday following stormy debates ...
Resistance pays off, says Khamenei
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that resistance by nations against major world powers ...
US blacklists five Iranian entities
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Treasury said Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on five Iranian entities for alleged ties to the ...
Bomber kills three in Iraq
BAQUBA (AFP) - The Iraqi military imposed a curfew on the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday after a suicide bomber ...
Business
Inter-bank, open market price gap surges to Rs1.20
KARACHI - The gap between the inter-bank and the open market exchange rate of dollar-rupee widened to Rs 1.20 that could ...
Crude oil prices slide further to 111 dollars
LONDON (AFP) - Crude prices slid further on Tuesday, as traders took their direction from the strengthening dollar and Russia, ...
Rupee low value drags stock market down
LAHORE - The historic decline in rupee value against the US dollar changed the market trend on Tuesday, pushing it as low as ...
Pakistanis remit record amount of $627 million
KARACHI - Pakistani workers remitted a record amount of $627.21 million in July, 2008 as against $495.69 million in the same ...
Punjab seeks US help to increase per acre yield
LAHORE (APP) - Provincial Minister for Finance and Planning and Development Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and US ...
Oil sales up by 3pc
KARACHI - Despite sharp increase in local oil product prices, oil sales volume continued with the upward momentum and reached ...
CIPE delegation visits KCCI
KARACHI (APP): Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Washington in collaboration with Institute of Corporate ...
Rice exporters seek abolition of MEP
KARACHI - Keeping in view falling prices of rice below the minimum export price (MEP), the rice exporters have demanded the ...
Privatisation of SME Bank a wrong decision
KARACHI - Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) President Zulfikar Thaver has said the decision to privatise the SME ...
Georgia conflict threat to strategic energy supplies
PARIS (AFP) - Fighting in Georgia threatens a strategic energy hub, the IEA warned on Tuesday, shortly before Georgia said ...
Politics
Treasury, Opp flood NA with 22 bills
ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly hall resounded with the slogans 'go Musharraf go' when Federal Minister for Youth Affairs Kh ...
Foreign friends continue their 'mission'
ISLAMABAD - Political and diplomatic efforts by the national and international actors continued on Tuesday to work out an agreed ...
Nawaz rejects US efforts for safe exit to Musharraf
ISLAMABAD - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has rejected US attempts seeking a safe exit for President Musharraf, hence dealing another ...
New president to surrender 58-2(b): Zardari
ISLAMABAD (APP) - PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday said that Army and ISI are presently working on professional lines and ...
A man for all seasons
ISLAMABAD- One of the special species of Pervez Musharraf regime, Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah, has offered his services to ...
Wounded Aafia's medical treatment, not bail, is now priority: defence lawyer
NEW YORK - "What's the point of bail?", a lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui retorted when a reporter pointedly asked why the ...
No blank cheque to Musharraf: US Dems
WASHINGTON (Online) - In a major setback to beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf, the Democratic Party has said that US could ...
'Q' questions legality of PM and Cabinet
LAHORE - Opposition leader in National Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that President Musharraf had not committed any ...
India abhors 'political vacuum' in Pakistan
NEW DELHI(PPI) - India abhors "political vacuum" in Pakistan created by the tussle between President Pervez Musharraf and ...
Pakistan airstrike kills Qaeda militant
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Pakistani forces killed an Arab Al-Qaeda militant in an air strike on a hideout in Bajaur and are working to ...
Gas pipeline blown up
QUETTA - A man was gunned down and three others sustained bullet injuries on Tuesday in an armed attack in Quetta while a gas ...
Entertainment
Star Wars wedding pair feel the force
IT is a scene from a galaxy far far away. Star Wars fanatics Rebecca Di Madeiros and Bill Duda were so obsessed with the ...
Lack of Vitamin-D linked to higher death risk
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Vitamin-D deficiency has been linked to 26 per cent greater risk of death in men and women, according to a ...
'Cute' girl forced to mime at Olympics ceremony
A pretty girl who won national fame after singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was only miming. Wearing a red ...
Prehistoric giant kangaroos killed by man, not climate
SYDNEY (AFP) - The chance discovery of the remains of a prehistoric giant kangaroo has cast doubts on the long-held view that ...
Ancient big cat fossils found in S America
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat - of the sabre-toothed cat genus - in South ...
Shuttle successor to fly no earlier than '14
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nasa announced it has pushed back the launch of the Orion, the spacecraft designed to replace the agency's ...
Islamabad
Seven Indians in ITF Jr Tennis last 8
ISLAMABAD - One Pakistani Nasir Mushtaq Ahmed and seven Indians - Prithiv Sivasubramaniam, Shantanu Rajput, Rohit Bisht, SV ...
Volleyball team players to be finalised today
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Volleyball Federation (PVF) will announce the national junior volleyball team for the 14th Asian Junior ...
Crackdown against fireworks sellers urged
ISLAMABAD - The irked residents of the Capital have demanded of the government to conduct a crackdown on the sellers and buyers ...
Programmes for celebration finalised
ISLAMABAD - The Federal Environment Ministry has finalised comprehensive programmes for celebrating 2009 as the National Year of ...
Youth involvement in decision making urged
ISLAMABAD - "It is very essential to involve young people in advocating for development issues as youth has the potential, and it ...
'Lawyers to support impeachment'
RAWALPINDI - The lawyer community would fully support the coalition government in the impeachment move of President Pervez ...
ITP traffic plan for August 14
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) have set a special traffic plan, deploying four DSPs, 16 Inspectors and 354 ...
Sale of substandard eatable items continues
ISLAMABAD (Online)- Owing to negligence of the authorities concerned, the sale of substandard goods are continuing at higher ...
Karachi
ICC task force concludes tour on a positive note
KARACHI - ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat, who is leading the ICC task force to Pakistan to asses security arrangements ...
Sindh wants 'fair share' from oil, gas income
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly Tuesday unanimously passed three private resolutions while one was withdrawn and the mover of fifth ...
2 cops among three killed
KARACHI - Unidentified criminals shot dead three people including two policemen here on Tuesday within the jurisdiction of Sukhan ...
Robber shot himself fearing public fury
KARACHI - An alleged robber shot himself dead in fear of being burnt by the angry mob within the jurisdiction of Ibrahim Hyderi ...
PPP takes out rally against Musharraf
KARACHI - Pakistan Peoples Party Karachi (East) chapter on Tuesday took out a huge anti-Musharraf rally, which started from Natha ...
Dr Aafia might be killed in US custody: sister
KARACHI - Dr Fouzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia, has expressed her fears that US security agencies might kill her sister, ...
11 special public prosecutors appointed
KARACHI - As many as eleven new special public prosecutors have been appointed in the Sindh Special Courts of Anti-Terrorist ...
Lahore
Shoaib, Akmal named in Pakistan squad
LAHORE - Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been named along with Kamran Akmal in the 15-member squad for the next ...
Rasool propels KRL to win : Navy fail to end hoodoo against NBP
LAHORE - The 39th and 40th matches of Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008 were completed at Karachi Tuesday. Muhammad Rasool ...
Rain floods City streets
LAHORE - Another heavy downpour on Tuesday flooded several localities exposing tall claims of the best arrangements by civic ...
Govt to construct 350 small dams
LAHORE - Provincial Minister Agriculture Ali Ahmed Aulakh has informed the House that the Punjab government will construct 350 ...
45,000 cops to ensure law, order on I-Day
LAHORE - The City police announced a security plan by deploying as many as 45,000 policemen on all the entry/exit points and ...
Millers to move SC against wheat movement ban
LAHORE - Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has demanded the Punjab government to immediately lift the inter-provincial ban ...
Defence defenceless against rain
LAHORE - The Tuesday monsoon brought suffering to the DHA residents, as majority of them remained stranded in their homes for ...
An insight into journalism
LAHORE - The memoirs of one of Pakistan's best-known journalists Inam Aziz 'Stop Press A Life in Journalism' was launched at a ...
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