Friday, February 10, 2012
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
- 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
The Nation in print for Monday, August 18, 2008
Front Page
'Modalities for Musharraf's ouster settled': Impeachment move deferred
ISLAMABAD - As the modalities for President Musharraf's ouster have almost been settled and most likely he would be stepping down in the next couple of days, the coalition partners have also deferred putting in action the impeachment process. Some authentic sources confirmed to TheNation that ...
Chargesheet draft awaits leaders' nod
ISLAMABAD - President of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday had a detailed meeting with PPP Co-Chairman ...
Sectarian clashes claim 900 lives so far
ISLAMABAD - As many as 900 people have been killed in the sectarian violence in Kurram Agency since April last year, officials ...
Pakistanis among 100 dead in Afghanistan
KABUL - Scores of police manned checkpoints around Afghanistan's capital Sunday after authorities ordered more than 7,000 ...
International
Killing of civilians: Iraq reserves right to hold Blackwater trial
BAGHDAD - Iraq on Sunday said it reserves the right to put on trial six guards working for private security firm Blackwater ...
Bomber kills 15 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up near a mosque in a Sunni Arab bastion of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 ...
Southern African states launch free trade zone
JOHANNESBURG - Southern African countries launched a regional trade zone at a summit on Sunday that aims to eliminate ...
America 'slipping away', says Obama
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday night that he believed America was "slipping away" and ...
US Marines stretched for training of Afghan troops: commander
NIJRAB (Afghanistan) - The US Marine Corps will not be able to increase military training teams needed to bolster security ...
West steps up pressure on Russia
PARIS - Western powers ratcheted up the pressure on Russia Sunday to comply with the peace deal it signed with Georgia and ...
Former Afghan president's remains 'found'
KABUL - Afghan authorities announced Sunday they had found mass graves containing the remains of nine relatives of ...
Iran boosts range on warplanes
TEHRAN - Iran has upgraded its fighter jets to allow them to fly 3,000 kilometres without refuelling, Iran's air force ...
Politics
'Q' convinced Musharraf's era over
ISLAMABAD - Admitting the fact that the ouster of President Pervez Musharraf is round the corner, Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) ...
'Army asks Musharraf to quit in a jiffy'
LONDON - President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has been given an ultimatum to step down by Wednesday or face impeachment and ...
Thousands flee as floodwater threatens Vehari
BUREWALA - Over 55,000 cusecs floodwater will pass through District Vehari areas during next 24 hours and administration has ...
Next president should be a Baloch: Nawaz
PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has maintained that the next president should be from Balochistan. In an exclusive interview to ...
Five killed in Swat operation
MINGORA - At least five persons, including a woman, were killed and 22 others were injured while three houses were damaged in ...
Dr Aafia's lawyers seek proof of charges
NEW YORK - Lawyers of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is accused of trying to kill US interrogators in ...
Al-Qaeda in FATA now less secure: Gates
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has contradicted a U.S. government senior terrorism analyst's assessment that al-Qaeda ...
India to film train passengers
IN a bid to step up surveillance at the Attari and Munnabao railway stations located near the Pak-India border, the Indian ...
Israel to release 200 Palestinians
JERUSALEM - Israel's cabinet voted on Sunday to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to president ...
Iran launches first home-built satellite
TEHRAN - Iran said it successfully launched its first domestically produced satellite into orbit on Sunday, a move that ...
Brother of Hekmatyar arrested
AUTHORITIES have arrested the brother of top Afghan Opposition leader Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar from Peshawar, Afghan sources ...
Russia pulls out from Georgia
MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday that Russian regular forces would start their pullout from Georgia on Monday ...
'CIA illegally detained Aafia'
ISLAMABAD - Ms Joanne Mariner, Director Human Rights Watch based in New York told President Bush, through her letter that ...
Entertainment
Bird? Plane? Nah, it's Bill Murray
BILL Murray landed in Chicago on Friday like he never had before - by jumping from an airplane 13,500 feet up. The 57-year-old ...
Stone age graveyard reveals green Sahara
THE largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has ...
Fly me to the moon
PARENTS wishing to stupefy their youngest children for an hour and a half might consider plopping them in front of "Fly Me to the ...
Is Hilary Duff engaged?
HILARY Duff has sparked engagement rumors after she was photographed leaving Hollywood hotspot Il Sole sporting a ring on her ...
The gold earrings unearthed after 2,500 years
IT'S the sort of classic jewellery favoured by modern women except these earrings were worn 2,500 years ago. An ...
Crows attack a koala bear
IT appears that this koala has learned to fly. But under attack from two crows, angered that the cuddly marsupial was too close ...
Islamabad
Police recover 346 pistols, 31 rifles
ISLAMABAD - Islamabad City Police arrested 442 persons and recovered huge cache of weapons during the year 2008 including three ...
'Angel of peace' carries on countrywide tour 'against all odds'
ISLAMABAD - With vigour to fight against terrorism, extremism and detestation until his last drop of blood, the 'angel of peace', ...
I-11 slum dwellers waiting for plots
ISLAMABAD - Unlike the allotments of plots to the habitants of slums of different communities residing in Islamabad, the 'Kutchi ...
HEC faced with financial constraints
ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is faced with financial constraints since the commencing of the new fiscal ...
Seminar on improving LG system opens today
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Local Government is organizing an International seminar on 'Successful models in capacity ...
205 mobile teams to administer anti-polio drops
ISLAMABAD - District Health Office has constituted 205 mobile teams for administering anti polio drops to the children in ...
Karachi
JI holds rally to express solidarity with Dr Aafia
KARACHI - Jammat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chapter here on Sunday took out a huge rally to show solidarity with Dr Aafia Siddiqui who ...
KU cancels Students Week programmes
KARACHI - The University of Karachi has cancelled the remaining programmes of the Students Week and announced that the classes ...
PML-Q Sindh quits Musharraf's drowning boat
Both of the majority coalition partners, PPP and its ally MQM, have emerged unscathed from the crucial session of the Sindh ...
Ghaus Ali Shah ends exile
KARACHI - Former Chief Minister Sindh and President PML-N Sindh, Syed Ghaus Ali Shah returned here Sunday to a warm welcome after ...
'No worker complained against Amin'
KARACHI - President PPP Ethics Committee Wing, Syed Zafar Ali Shah MNA, has said that no party MNA or worker has sent any ...
Rizvi escapes murder attempt
KARACHI - Haider Rizvi, leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has escaped another attack while his guard sustained ...
Lahore
Shab-e-Barat celebrated with religious zeal, fervour
LAHORE - Shab-e-Barat, the night of reverence and fervour, was celebrated with great religious zeal on Sunday night. The ...
Model Town Society: Commercialisation eats up fun venues
LAHORE - What to talk about Northern Lahore and other less developed areas when each and every problem exists in one of the best ...
PbBC backs Musharraf's impeachment
LAHORE - Association of Pakistani Lawyers in UK and Punjab Bar Council have jointly extended their support to the present ...
Pre-impeachment musings (City Notes)
They should announce some time today that the President has decided, in the greater interest of Pakistan, that he will not put ...
Prices of fruits, vegetables shoot up: Sunday bazaars fail to attract shoppers
LAHORE - In the wake of high prices of fruits and vegetables, Sunday bazaars witnessed lowest attendance of shoppers as compared ...
Lawyers, HR activists want Musharraf trial after impeachment
LAHORE - The lawyers, representatives of civil society, political workers, students and traders along with citizens staged a ...
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