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 Sunday, August 16, 2009
Front Page
SBP cuts interest rate by 1pc
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday cut its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 13 per cent from the earlier level of 14 per cent, which will be effective from Monday (August 17). Governor SBP Syed Salim Raza announced the decision while unveiling the Monetary Policy Statement ...
Army has no link with Musharraf trial: PM
SHEIKHUPURA - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the PPP government has no love lost for Pervez Musharraf, while the ...
Minister tears into Opp over sugar crisis
NAVEED BUTT AND IRFAN BUKHARI ISLAMABAD - Minister of State for Industries and Production Dr Ayat Ullah Durrani has disclosed in ...
International
Federer, Nadal knocked out in Montreal
MONTREAL (AFP) - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal both exited the Montreal Masters on a historic day of ATP tennis Friday when the ...
England drop Trott hint
LONDON (AFP) - England's selectors withdrew uncapped batsman Jonathan Trott from the England Lions match with Australia, as they ...
Police cite beer-drinking Phelps over licence after crash
BALTIMORE (Maryland) (AFP) - Police cited US swim star Michael Phelps on Friday for driving with an expired licence and said the ...
Amin Gulgees sculptures exhibit opens in New York
NEW YORK - An exhibition of eminent Pakistani metal sculptor Amin Gulgees works in copper opened at the Pakistan Consulate ...
India placed on US religion watch list
WASHINGTON: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has placed India on its watch list for the first time, ...
Kashmiris seething with rage over Indian forces' presence: NY Times
NEW YORK - The rape and murder of two Shopian women in occupied Kashmir has become the focal point for "bottomless Kashmiri rage" ...
Zardari's coop in war on terror praised
NEW YORK-A noted American columnist said on Friday that the reported killing of Baitullah Mehsud and other extremists contributed ...
Mudslinging on Afghan presidential vote trail
KABUL (AFP) - They may be backed by warlords and rely on donkeys to get their supporters out to vote, but contenders in ...
Ban slams Kabul bombing
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Saturday condemned in the strongest possible terms Saturdays suicide bombing ...
US senator meets Suu Kyi and Myanmar junta leader
YANGON (Reuters) - US Senator Jim Webb met Myanmar top military leader Than Shwe and Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on ...
25 more Iran vote protesters face trial
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran will put on trial 25 more people arrested after the disputed result of the June presidential election, as ...
I am sorry, says Taiwan leader
LIUKUEI, Taiwan, (AFP) - Taiwans President Ma Ying-jeou bowed to public anger Saturday, apologising for his governments slow ...
Bangladesh mourns Mujib amid tight security
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh mourned Saturday the assassination of the countrys founding leader over three decades ago amid tight ...
Business
KSE hits 8,000 psychological barrier on IMF, MCB news
The KSE sustained a decent surge during the last business week mainly due to positive activity in main board banking stocks, ...
PSM increases prices of steel products
KARACHI - The Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) has amplified the existing prices of all its major steel products in the backdrop of high ...
SBP to introduce 'Interest Rate Corridor'
KARACHI - To reduce the volatility in short term interest rates and to bring more transparency in the implementation of monetary ...
Baig for more cut in discount rate
KARACHI (APP) - Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig Chairman Banking, Credit and Finance of FPCCI and Federal Advisor on Textile Industry has ...
PIAF terms eyewash
LAHORE - Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) on Saturday termed the one percent cut in mark-up as eyewash ...
LCCI welcomes
LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while welcoming the SBP decision to cut discount rates by 100 basis points ...
IBA organises conference on IT
KARACHI - The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi has organised the Third International Conference on Information ...
Commodity prices mixed as economies turn corner
LONDON (AFP) - Commodity prices traded mixed this week amid caution over future demand for raw materials despite positive ...
Employees in SOEs to get 12 per cent shares
KARACHI - The government has empowered the employees of State Owned Entities (SOEs) through transfer of 12 per cent of the ...
Let us pledge to make Pakistan prosperous country: LCCI chief
It is said that a successful businessman is more intelligent, active and committed than 100 CSP officers. The proverb seems to be ...
Politics
Pause in crackdown on hoarders
LAHORE - Taking a sudden U-turn on Saturday, the Punjab government stopped crackdown on sugar mills and hoarders of sugar stocks ...
Troops among 5 dead in Swat suicide blast
MINGORA, Swat - At least five persons were killed and several others injured as a result of suicide attack on a checkpost of the ...
Govt-MQM talks on LBs inconclusive
KARACHI - Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira on Saturday said that a delegation of MQM met with President Asif ...
Gaza leader among 24 killed
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A radical sheikh was among 24 people killed and 130 wounded after Hamas police stormed a Gaza mosque when he ...
Suicide attack at Kabul Nato HQs
KABUL (AFP) - A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Nato military headquarters in Kabul Saturday, killing seven Afghans in a ...
Violence mars India's Independence Day
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Indian troops killed four freedom fighters in Kashmir as a strike call given by the Kashmiri leaders paralysed ...
SC larger bench to interpret NRO cases, says Justice Fayyaz
ISLAMABAD - The 11th roll signing ceremony was held on Saturday in which 28 lawyers were enrolled as advocates of the Supreme ...
Key TNSM leader surrenders
BUNER (APP) - The district treasurer and member of the central shura of banned outfit Tehrik Nifaz Shariat e Muhammadi (TNSM) ...
French minister for ban on burqa
LONDON (AFP) - A ban on wearing the all covering burqa in France would stem the spread of what French Minister Fadela Amara ...
38 Taliban die in Afghanistan clashes
KANDAHAR (AFP) - Afghan army special forces backed by US-led international troops killed up to 38 Taliban militants in separate ...
Three oil tankers destroyed
QUETTA-Three oil tankers supplying oil to NATO forces in Afghanistan were completely destroyed in an attack in Yaro area of ...
Pak-Afghan clash leaves soldier dead
ANGOOR ADDA (Online) - A security personnel lost his life while 11 others were wounded during a clash between Pakistani military ...
Entertainment
Leona chased by spiders in Los Angeles
LEONA Lewis was left petrified after tarantulas invaded a photo shoot. The British singer was posing for images for her second ...
Kate Winslet goes from Oscar win to TV series
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - British screen star Kate Winslet, who won the 2009 best actress Oscar, will take the lead role in a ...
Stewart - emotional wreck
KRISTEN Stewart was an emotional wreck while filming Twilight sequel New Moon - she collapsed in tears before she had to shoot ...
Scarlett Johansson's marriage on the rocks?
SCARLETT Johanssons marriage to her hunky husband Ryan Reynolds is reportedly on the rocks. The pair - who married in a secret ...
Shah Rukh Khan detained in US; fans outraged
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan said he felt angry and humiliated after he was detained and questioned at a U.S. ...
Bad news for coffee drinkers who get headaches
PEOPLE who consume high amounts of caffeine each day are more likely to suffer occasional headaches than those with low caffeine ...
Islamabad
Blind Pakistani team protest UK visa refusal
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The head of Pakistan's blind cricketers on Saturday demanded that the World Cup be shifted from England after ...
CPO forms Inter-faith Peace Committee
RAWALPINDI - City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal has constituted 'Interfaith Peace Committee to keep the law and order ...
Ch Yaseen vows to continue work for employees' welfare
ISLAMABAD - Indiscriminate service to the residents of the federal capital and welfare of the CDA workers would remain at the top ...
ICTA ensures sugar sale at control rates
ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has dispatched 3,300 bags of sugar to the markets here on Saturday that ...
Capital to be made noise-free
ISLAMABAD - Senior Superintendent of Police Sultan Azam Temuri Saturday said that noise pollution is injurious to human health ...
A ministry for or against women?
ISLAMABAD- The Ministry of Women Development (MoWD), which is responsible for making policies and programmes for the welfare of ...
Pindi board announces HSSC results
RAWALPINDI - The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Rawalpindi, has announced the results of Higher Secondary ...
Karachi
Army win KESC National Boxing
KARACHI - Army as expected won the KESC-sponsored 33rd National Boxing Championships clinching seven gold, one silver and one ...
National Junior Squash from 17th
KARACHI - The 3rd DG Rangers Sindh National Junior Squash Championships that start here August 17 at Sindh Rangers Jahangir Khan ...
Pakistan Veteran cricketers record first win
KARACHI - Pakistan Veteran cricketers currently on a private tour of England recorded first victory of the visit after two defeat ...
Diminutive Panju in Ranking Tennis semis
KARACHI - Ghulam Abbas Panju has grabbed a semifinal spot in the ongoing Askari Seed Tanking Tennis Championship on Saturday here ...
Depts concerned over CM's policy
KARACHI - The various provincial departments of Sindh government have expressed concerns over the decision of Sindh Chief ...
Police helpline 115 fails to control traffic jams
KARACHI - The traffic police helpline 115 has once again failed to tackle traffic problems of the City especially on special ...
House ownership rights for victims heirs lauded
KARACHI (PPI) - Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh, Ms Sharmila Faruqui while hailing handing over ownership rights of 155 ...
Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002
The Freedom of Information Ordinance enables citizens to ask for information as their right, just as every citizen has the right ...
TTP militant held; huge arms cache seized
KARACHI - Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh Police Department on Saturday claimed to have arrested a militant, ...
KESC pins hopes on new projects
KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is receiving positive results out of the under progress implementation of ...
Lahore
Zubair steers PIA to barest-margin win over PMC
LAHORE - Faisalabad-born central defender Zubair Moazzam struck all-important goal as PIA imposed 1-0 win over PMC Athletico ...
GCU, KC students clinch top positions
LAHORE - Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore has announced the result of Intermediate Annual Examination ...
City receives downpour
LAHORE - The City received torrential rain on Saturday, disturbing normal routine life as the rainwater inundated a number of ...
Court confirms Shumaila's bail
LAHORE - The Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Lahore, Sajjad Ahmad Sheikh Saturday confirmed the earlier granted interim bail ...
Channels promoting Indian culture should be banned: Nizami
LAHORE - Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust and Editor-in-Chief The Nation Majid Nizami has said that the government should ban TV ...
Crackdown on hoarders not millowners: Shahbaz
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that crackdown on the persons involved in hoarding of sugar would ...
Sarwat's Raat Ki Dhoop launched
LAHORE - Eminent writers during the book launching ceremony said that the writer Sarwat Muhayyudin has presented the true picture ...
'Culture manifestation of religion'
LAHORE - Speakers at a Seminar on 'The Religion and Culture seemed in agreement that according to Islamic understanding the ...
PCB, ICC chiefs to meet in Dubai on World Cup issue
LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt will meet International Cricket Council president David Morgan for another round ...
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