Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Warrant issued for ex-Maldives president
- Nato supplies continue through Pak airspace: Munter
- Contempt appeal: SC asks Aitzaz to complete arguments on Friday
- Khar says drone attacks multiply militants
The Nation in print for Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Front Page
Suicide bomber strikes outside DIK hospital
PESHAWAR - At least 27 persons, including two policemen, were killed and 40 others were injured Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gathering of a large number of people on the premises of District Headquarters Hospital, Dera Ismael Khan, police said. All the deceased were ...
Five soldiers, 20 militants killed in Bajaur clash
PESHAWAR - At least 20 Taliban militants have been killed when the security forces repulsed an attack on a check-post in Nawagai ...
A real test starts
ISLAMABAD - The PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari's smart move to take on board JUI-F and ANP top leadership on the judges' ...
ISAF satisfied with cooperation
ISLAMABAD - The Tripartite Commission composed of senior military representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Coalition Forces ...
International
Nato-Russia feud erupts over Georgia conflict
MOSCOW (AFP) - Nato-Russia relations plunged to their lowest point in years Tuesday over the conflict in Georgia and Russia's ...
Obama VP speculation hots up as announcement looms
ORLANDO (Florida) (AFP) - If reports about Barack Obama's vice-presidential shortlist are correct, he is thinking about adding ...
Iraq wants to put torturers on trial
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from full immunity despite what ...
Zambia's President dies
LUSAKA (AFP) - President Levy Mwanawasa, a trenchant critic of Robert Mugabe who won praise for his handling of Zambia's ...
Sudan defiant as President visits Turkey
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Sudan said Tuesday it would continue to defy the International Criminal Court (ICC) as its President, named as a ...
Polish Premier, President spar over US missile deal
WARSAW (AFP) - The looming signing of a deal on basing a US missile shield in Poland has sparked a new round in a long-running ...
Iran picks firms to hunt for N-plant sites
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation signed deals on Tuesday with six local companies tasking them to hunt for ...
India told to repeal AFSPA
NEW YORK - A prominent rights watchdog has asked India to repeal an act empowering its security forces "to perpetrate abuses with ...
Bouquets and brickbats for departing Musharraf in US media
NEW YORK- There were bouquets and brickbats for the outgoing President Pervez Musharraf in editorials appearing in several ...
Holland, Australia, Spain and Germany in the semis
Pakistan to contest for No 7 slot: Out of Champions Trophy reckoning BEIJING - With the so far invincible Aussies ...
Favourites Brazil and Cuba reach semi-finals
BEIJING (AFP) - Gold medal favourites Brazil eased past Japan in the women's volleyball quarter-finals on Tuesday with a ...
Presidential level of security for players
LONDON (AFP) - Players will receive a "presidential" level of security for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, British ...
Morgan not happy over uncertainty
Champions Trophy BEIJING (AFP) - World cricket's leading administrator has said the "perilously close" start of ...
Australia set to boycott Champions Trophy
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Despite the International Cricket Council (ICC) giving Champions Trophy security the all clear on Tuesday, ...
Business
Rs358 billion funds available in FY09
KARACHI - Funds amounting to Rs 358 billion would be available to exporters for the export of products eligible under the Export ...
Opec crude oil prices go down to 108 dollars
KARACHI - Following the pattern of the international markets, the OPEC crude oil prices have dropped to 108 dollars per barrel. ...
Upward rally continues on second day
LAHORE - Upward rally after stepping down of Pervez Mushrraf continued on second day though it lacked force, as investors were ...
Al-Abaraj buys 50pc KESC shares
KARACHI - The Al-Abaraj Group has purchased 50 per cent of KESC shares with a view to take management control of the utility ...
Punjab runs short of 600,000 tonnes urea
LAHORE (APP) - Punjab is running short of 600,000 tonnes of urea with 4.8 million tonnes production against the requirement of ...
Dollar further sheds value against rupee
KARACHI - The US dollar further shed value against the Pakistani currency in the open market and inter-bank operations. Thus ...
PQFTL expands network
KARACHI - Pak-Qatar Family Takaful Limited (PQFTL) has expanded its branches network in nine cities across Pakistan. This was ...
Politics
Quick-buck wish becomes death-trap for Pak emigrants
LAHORE-The tragedy of illegal immigration to 'Fortress Europe' continues, and there is no end to this in sight contrary to the ...
PPP floats new formula for judges' reinstatement
KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party has proposed a formula to its coalition partners, PML-N, ANP and JUI-F that if restoration of ...
US says will consider any asylum bid by Musharraf
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it would study any application for asylum by former Pakistani president Pervez ...
Bullet-riddled bodies of 5 govt officials found
QUETTA - Chathar police on Tuesday recovered five bodies including body of TMO Chathr, who were kidnapped by unknown persons some ...
'Q' divided over owning Musharraf
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q's central executive committee meeting here on Tuesday was caught in heated controversy when ...
Petition seeks ex-president's name on ECL
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) was moved on Tuesday against former President Pervez Musharraf for inclusion of his ...
Sardar Latif Khosa to be new AG
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, is being appointed as Attorney ...
Govt urged to roll back unlawful steps
NEW YORK - A leading international human rights group Tuesday urged Pakistan's democratic government to roll back measures that ...
Ministry overrides its own guidelines
ISLAMABAD - Finance Division, which directs other ministries to rationalize their expenditure in the wake of ongoing financial ...
63 per cent rejoice over Musharraf's exit
ISLAMABAD - Sixty-three per cent Pakistanis rejoice over President Musharraf's resignation, 15 per cent regret while 22 per cent ...
Afghan attack kills 12 French soldiers
KABUL (AFP) - Ten French Nato soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, the deadliest ...
US, allies committed to support Pakistan's democratic govt: Rice
WASHINGTON (APP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while rejecting the notion that the country has been facing the ...
43 killed in Algeria suicide attack
ISSERS (Algeria) (AFP) - A suicide attacker killed 43 people and wounded 45 others waiting outside an elite police school in ...
Provinces agree to abolish LG system: PA informed
LAHORE - Punjab Minister for Local Government, Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa on Tuesday informed Punjab Assembly that all the four ...
No let-up in Kurram clashes
PARACHINAR (APP) - The ongoing bloody fighting between tribesmen and pro-Taliban militants continued Tuesday in Kurram Agency ...
Saudis deny take-Musharraf plan
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia has denied it has a plane waiting to take former president Pervez Musharraf to the Muslim kingdom, a ...
Entertainment
Big Brother star Goody has cancer
MUMBAI (Agencies) - Controversial British television personality Jade Goody on Tuesday received the devastating news that she has ...
Wild dolphins tail-walk on water
A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after ...
Mariah, Miley, Beyonce join voices to fight cancer
LOS ANGELES (Agencies) - What would it sound like if 15 of the female singers joined voices? The answer will be revealed Sept 2. ...
Mirror self-recognition in magpie birds
SELF-recognition, it has been argued, is a hallmark of advanced cognitive abilities in animals. It was previously thought that ...
Studies assess risk of suicide by students, Asian Americans
WASHINGTON (AFP) - About 15 per cent of college students have entertained suicidal thoughts at some point, while five percent ...
Gorilla grieves over death of her baby
GORILLA Gana, 11, was left shattered in her compound at the zoo in Muenster in northern Germany at the weekend when her ...
Islamabad
If you want to be famous, be famous
ISLAMABAD - Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi Tuesday reviewed the security arrangements of the Parliament ...
US officials assure assistance to govt
ISLAMABAD - The National Commission for Human Development has got new ray of hope of its survival, as the US officials assured ...
National Performing Arts Group to display dance at PNCA
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The National Performing Arts Group will present regional dances and music here on August 20 at Pakistan ...
Troubled kids more likely to fall to smoking
ISLAMABAD (Online) - First graders who misbehave in school may be more likely to be regular smokers as young adults, according to ...
Urban, rural areas renewal through better governance urged
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Speakers at the concluding session of a workshop stressed the need to develop and renew urban and rural areas ...
Working women to launch union on 22nd
ISLAMABAD - For the first time over 10 million home-based working women of Pakistan have gathered at a national level platform ...
Karachi
KSE capitalisation climbs Rs191b in 2 days
KARACHI - The crisis-ridden stock market showed a strong recovery in just two trading days, as the overall capitalisation of ...
Musharaf's resignation to stabilise economy: experts
LAHORE (APP) - Economic experts have termed the resignation of Prevez Musharaf as a good omen for economic stability of the ...
Sindh for urbanisation criteria in NFC Award
KARACHI - The notification for the composition of new National Finance Commission (NFC) is likely to be issued by acting ...
Lawyers observe Yaum-e-Nijat
KARACHI - The lawyers on Tuesday observed Yaum-e-Nijat (Day of Deliverance), a day after the resignation of General (retired) ...
Bomb hoax at KU creates panic
KARACHI - A bomb hoax created panic at the Karachi University (KU) on Tuesday and forced the students and KU employees to ...
CDGK healthcare service for students
Karachi - The CDGK took a revolutionary step in the education department launching health care programmes for the children ...
Police arrest 21 land grabbers
KARACHI - Police arrested on Tuesday almost 21 alleged land grabbers after two hours encounter. The place where this encounter ...
SHCBA seeks restoration by tomorrow
KARACHI (APP) - Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) here on Tuesday demanded of the coalition government to restore deposed ...
Lahore
MPAs enraged over caricatures
LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning publication of imaginary caricatures and ...
Justice Ch 'No' turned tables on Musharraf: Wajih
LAHORE - While demanding immediate restoration of the deposed judges, lawyers have discarded the mode of presidential ordinance ...
Red-tapism delays MM Alam Road remodelling
LAHORE - Bureaucratic red-tapism is delaying remodelling of MM Alam Road with the Punjab Government showing least interest to ...
Education vital to country's future
LAHORE - Former Chief Justice of Federal Shariat Court, Justice (Retd) Mian Mehboob Ahmad has said that country's future could be ...
CIA police kills three kidnappers in encounter
LAHORE - Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA) Police killed three alleged kidnappers in an encounter in Shahdra Town area early on ...
Smoking in Punjab prisons banned
LAHORE - Punjab Prisons Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor has announced complete ban on smoking in all the prisons of the province. ...
Asif's B sample positive
LAHORE - Dope-tainted Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has failed to clear his 'B' sample test which too has returned positive ...
Inconsistent result might give a reprieve
LAHORE - Fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who failed his second dope test, might escape after difference in the sample results, experts ...
Return of ad hocism likely in PCB?
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is likely to return to ad-hocism as speculations on directives from the Prime Minister ...
Spot-kick goal gives Steel sensational win over KRL
Pakistan Premier Soccer League LAHORE - Three more matches were decided Tuesday in the Pakistan Premier Soccer League ...
PCA team leaves for Zimbabwe, Kenya tours
LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Academy's 15-member team led by Khurram Manzoor has left for tours of Zimbabwe and Kenya today. ...
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