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 Friday, August 22, 2008
Front Page
Twin suicide hit at Wah arms factory
WAH CANTT - Two suicide bombers once again, ostensibly, targeted the military installation here on Thursday afternoon killing around 70 persons and leaving over 100 injured, eyewitnesses and sources in the sensitive departments informed. However, the hospital and police sources feared that death ...
New Zealand inflict more pain on hapless Pakistan
BEIJING - Pakistan ended its Olympic campaign here just as it had commenced it: with defeat at the hands of a lowly-rated squad. ...
NA demands Dr Aafia's repatriation
ISLAMABAD " The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution for strongly condemning the publication of ...
Swiss probe is closed, says PPP
NEW YORK - Farah Ispahani, MNA and a spokesperson of the Pakistan People's Party, has denied an American magazine's claim that ...
MPs delegation to visit Aafia: FO
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani parliamentarians will soon visit the United States to meet Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is detained in New York, ...
International
US paper calls for action to prevent defeat in Afghanistan
NEW YORK - A major American newspaper on Thursday called on the United States, NATO, Pakistan and Afghanistan to urgently take a ...
Musharraf's exit could turn Pakistan around: Haqqani
NEW YORK - Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, addressing concerns in some US circles over Pervez ...
Warming threatens Himalayan water resources, forum told
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Climate change poses a serious threat to essential water resources in the Himalayan region putting the ...
Russia halts mily cooperation with Nato
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Russia informed Nato Thursday that it is halting military cooperation, an Alliance spokeswoman said, announcing ...
Clock ticking on global warming
ACCRA (AFP) - Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the UN's top climate change official warned as a new round ...
Britain 'resolute' in supporting Afghanistan: PM
KABUL (AFP) - Britain is "utterly resolute" in supporting Afghanistan as it fights a Taliban-led insurgency and pursues ...
Israel plays down chances of ME deal this year
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday played down US-backed hopes of a peace deal with the ...
US, Iraq say crucial security deal almost signed
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Washington and Baghdad said on Thursday they were very close to signing a crucial military deal that would decide ...
Manila scraps peace deal with Muslims
MANILA (AFP) - The Philippine govt has scrapped its controversial peace deal with the Muslim minority after two weeks of deadly ...
Kaniskina blazes to 20km walk gold, Clay in decathlon pole
BEIJING (AFP) - World champion Olga Kaniskina of Russia led from gun to tape to win the women's 20 kilometres walk gold medal at ...
Campbell-Brown defends 200m crown
BEIJING (AFP) - Veronica Campbell-Brown won her second Olympic 200-meter final in a row on Friday, continuing Jamaican domination ...
USA prepares for semis revenge against Argentina
BEIJING (AFP) - Team USA has its eyes on a semi-final match up against reigning Olympic champion Argentina on Friday, a ...
Spotakova celebrates black day with golden win
BEIJING (AFP) - The Czech Republic's Barbora Spotakova won the Olympic Games women's javelin gold on Thursday and recalled it was ...
Marital troubles force Lee to miss series
SYDNEY (AFP) - Star Australian paceman Brett Lee confirmed here Thursday that the breakdown of his marriage was behind his ...
Asian Bradman gets Lord's honour
MUMBAI - For well over a century, the Lord's Tavern has provided cricket-lovers with a haven for celebration or reflection. ...
Pakistan, China tourism promotion discussed
ISLAMABAD - A five-member Chinese delegation of tour operators from Southern China led by Mr Wang of Chinese ...
Business
Rice export rises by 226.43pc in July '08
KARACHI - The rice export growth has soared by 226.43 per cent to 235.317 million dollars during July, the first month of current ...
Financial results fail to lift market up
LAHORE - Lingering judiciary issue continued to cast negative shadow on the equity market. The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark ...
Pak Refinery, Lucky and ICI announces financial results
KARACHI - A numbers of financial companies have announced their financial results on Thursday for the year and half year ended on ...
Local cement sales to decline by 6 per cent in current fiscal
KARACHI - The sale of cement in local market is expected to plunge by 6 per cent and to reach 21 million tons in current fiscal ...
Pakistan Railways urged to introduce express cargo trains
FAISALABAD - Faisalabad Dry Port Trust Chairman Sheikh Ashfaq Ahmed has said that the Pakistan Railways should improve its cargo ...
PM for steps to boost trade between Pakistan and Iran
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday stressed effective implementation of the Preferential Trade ...
Habib Bank connects to Chips
Habib Bank Limited, the largest private sector bank in Pakistan, is now using CHIPS, the real-time, large dollar payments system ...
SBP urged for currency rates compliance
KARACHI - Vice President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Haroon Agar has urged the Governor, State Bank of Pakistan ...
Oil rises to 122 dollars
LONDON - Oil prices jumped back above 122 dollars on Thursday as traders tracked geopolitical tensions between the United ...
Argentina keen to boost trade with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - Argentina is an old friend of Pakistan and the former is keen to further boost and strengthen its bilateral ...
Wheat shortage makes way for more rice cultivation
LAHORE - In the wake of wheat shortage and growing demand of rice, 4.5 million acres of land has been brought under paddy ...
Politics
UN slams bombing
NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement condemning the twin bombings in Pakistan on Thursday that killed ...
Major, ANP leader among six shot dead
PESHAWAR - A serving major of armed forces was shot dead by unknown persons in Kohat Development Authority scheme at Kohat on ...
Bush thanks Musharraf, felicitates PM
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the United States and Pakistan have pledged to continue working together in the fight against terrorism ...
No change in Sindh
KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party top leadership has assured Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) that despite the resignation of ...
PML-Q's internal conflicts intensify
ISLAMABAD - The internal conflicts of Pakistan Muslim League-Q here on Wednesday intensified when a party lawmaker Riaz Fatyana ...
Law Ministry to get NAB control after renaming
LAHORE - Govt is considering to rename the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and placing it under control of Law Ministry ...
7 coalition troops, 30 rebels die in Afghanistan
KABUL - Seven international troops including three Poles and three Canadians have been killed in Afghanistan over the last ...
Sindh Assembly to endorse Zardari as presidential candidate
KARACHI- A special session of Sindh Assembly, summoned at a short notice, will be held today. Though the order of the day is ...
We can't tackle terror alone, says Rehman
ISLAMABAD - Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman A Malik has said in unequivocal terms that the menace of ...
Kashmir bus service resumes
SRINAGAR - A trans-Kashmir bus service resumed Thursday after it was suspended in the wake of massive demonstrations in the ...
59pc Indians feel it's time for Kashmir's Azadi
ISLAMABAD - In India, a popular programme of CNN-IBN news channel Face the Nation revealed that 59 percent of Indians have ...
2 Pakistanis beheaded in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH - Two convicted Pakistani drug traffickers were beheaded by the sword on Thursday in Dammam, in eastern Saudi ...
Kayani lauds troops morale
RAWALPINDI - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Swat on Thursday. He was given a detailed ...
Pigeon 'held' for smuggling drugs
SARAJEVO - Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the ...
No green light for US-India nuke deal yet
VIENNA - A controversial US-India nuclear cooperation deal ran into resistance at a key meeting here Thursday with one ...
Former DCO Dera Bugti on the run
AN exchange of fire erupted Thursday between police and security guards of former district coordination officer of Dera Bugti, ...
Entertainment
Most black holes might come in only small and large
BLACK holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times ...
11th century gold ring with rare black diamond
A treasure hunter was stunned when he unearthed a beautiful and historic gold ring with a rare black diamond set inside it ...
Baby owl adopted by a greyhound
IN the childhood fairytale it was the owl and the pussycat that were the very best of friends. But in real life it is this ...
Snail hides from march of history
A colony of Mediterranean snails has been found in the UK at Cliveden House, where they have lived in marble-wrapped secrecy for ...
Thailand says Gary Glitter will be expelled to Britain
BANGKOK - Thai immigration authorities said Thursday they would expel former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary ...
Pete and Ashlee house-hunting in NYC and Chicago
THERE'S yet another celebrity couple that wants to flee the paparazzi-lined streets of LA for a more normal life. ...
Islamabad
Security tightened in Capital
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police have enhanced the security in the Capital after the terrible blasts in ...
Speakers hold US responsible for unrest in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - US is responsible for the current deteriorating security situation in the country, as its so-called 'war against ...
Senate body concerned over Aafia's detention
ISLAMABAD - Expressing its deep concern over continuous illegal detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the US jails, the Senate ...
PAL compiles annual anthologies for 2007
ISLAMABAD - "The Academy publishes its selection every year from the prose and poetry in literary journals and magazines ...
Pak has highest rate of breast cancer in Asia
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has the highest rate of breast cancer in any Asian population with 40,000 deaths per year, which is ...
Karachi
Poor deprived of financial lifeline before Ramazan
KARACHI - Sindh Zakat and Ushr committees are in a state of paralysis because of the reasons best known to the government and as ...
Courts boycotted for restoration of judges
KARACHI - The lawyers' fraternity on Thursday continued their protest by staging weekly boycott of the legal proceedings for the ...
Protest against transport system
KARACHI - The deplorable condition of public transport, especially of buses in the metropolis, appears to have become a mockery ...
32 HS schools face academic collapse
KARACHI - Around 32 higher secondary schools in the metropolis are near total collapse academically after a decision by ...
Government warns more suicide attacks
KARACHI - Federal Interior Ministry on Thursday warned the citizens that more suicide attacks could take place throughout the ...
'Businessmen want Zardari to be president'
KARACHI - Extending their full cooperation to the present government, the leading businessmen and industrialists of the country ...
Dr. Nasim Ashraf pays farewell visit to NSK
KARACHI - Outgoing chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board Dr. Nasim Ashraf, who resigned from his office four days ago, visited ...
Lahore
Hunt for better English communication skills
LAHORE - Principal Officer US Consulate Lahore, Bryan D Hunt has emphasised the need for better English communication skills in ...
No 'N' participation in lawyers rally for judges
LAHORE - The lawyers' first weekly rally after resignation of Pervez Musharraf was marked by the absence of PML-N despite the ...
TEPA, Faisal Town residents at loggerheads
LAHORE - Faisal Town residents and TEPA authorities are at loggerheads over the 5 feet cut in the width of service road of under ...
Aesthetically apt, but money-wise unwise
LAHORE - The restoration of the original faade of the Civil Secretariat Punjab, especially the Chief Secretary's Block, has been ...
Moon Market blast aimed to hit SHO
LAHORE - The SHO Iqbal Town Police Station Riaz Abbas was the main target of the suicide bomber that claimed 11 lives at Moon ...
PPP Punjab supports Zardari as President
LAHORE - The PPP Punjab parliamentary party meeting held at Governor's House on Thursday unanimously nominated party's ...
PIA thrash KESC in National Jr Hockey
LAHORE - PIA thrashed KESC 5-0 on the opening day of the 28th Junior U-20 National Hockey Championship at the National Hockey ...
WAPDA open campaign with 5-0 win
LAHORE - Three matches were decided Thursday during Fourth National Women Football Championship 2008 in progress under ...
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