Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 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
The Nation in print for Saturday, August 09, 2008
Front Page
US plans Fata offensive
WASHINGTON (Agencies) - Top Bush administration officials are urging the President to direct US troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in its regional counter-terrorism strategy, reports ABC News quoting an ...
Punjab, Sindh PAs warm up
LAHORE/KARACHI - The ruling coalition in Punjab, in an effort to actualise the decision of its leaders for impeaching President ...
Dazzling opening for Beijing Olympics
BEIJING (AFP) - China's once-in-a-lifetime Olympic dream became reality Friday as the Beijing Games opened with a dazzling ...
International
Military strike on Iran's N. facilities may not be effective: study
WASHINGTON: - A military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would probably only delay the country's progress toward ...
West urges immediate ceasefire in S. Ossetia
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union, United States and Nato led international calls Friday for an immediate end to violence in ...
Russia reports ethnic cleansing
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said "ethnic cleansing" had been reported in villages in South ...
Gates wants to double Afghan military size
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates backs a 20-billion-dollar plan to double the Afghan army and reshape Nato ...
East Jerusalem settlements undermine peace process
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Israel's decision to allow more building in settlements in Palestinian territories and east Jerusalem undermines ...
Bush makes new plea for freedom of expression in China
BEIJING (AFP) - US President George W Bush opened a massive new United States embassy in Beijing on Friday, one of America's ...
1988 uprising a turning point in Myanmar: NLD
YANGON (Agencies) - Aung San Suu Kyi's party Friday hailed a 1988 pro-democracy uprising as a "turning point" in Myanmar's ...
Sadr to dissolve militia if US withdraws from Iraq
NAJAF (AFP) - Shia leader Moqtada Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army militia to lay down its arms if a security pact between Baghdad ...
Osama's driver could be free in 5 months
NEW YORK - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's driver may be free in just five months after a U.S. military jury gave Salim Hamdan ...
Business
Govt may fix wheat issue price over Rs700/40kg
KARACHI - The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Livestock is mulling to fix the issue price of wheat at over Rs700 per 40 kg in ...
644000 MW, 8.89 MAF water loss in one year
LAHORE - The delay in completion of Rs 102 billion Mangla Dam upraising project has not only deprived the water-power-starved ...
Stock market gains another 202 points
LAHORE - Emerging political clarity on Friday gave the real strength to the market, which on second consecutive day closed in ...
Shell, PSO to post record earnings
KARACHI - The giant oil marketing companies Shell Pakistan and Pakistan State Oil are likely to post phenomenal growth in their ...
Oil slides below $114
LONDON - Crude prices continued their dizzying spiral down on Friday, shedding nearly four dollars to trade below 114 ...
Oil 'may hit $200 within years'
A SERIOUS oil supply crisis is looming, which could push prices above $200 a barrel, a think tank has warned, reports BBC. A ...
Net outflow of $171.310m from market reflects uncertainty
KARACHI - Foreign investors have pulled out $ 171.310 million during July-August 2008 on political uncertainty in the ...
PQ shipping activity report
Karachi - Shipping activity remained active at the Port where two ships scheduled to load, offload containers were allotted ...
WTO: Geneva talks on Doha Round, Pakistan and India
After hectic negotiations for nine days (longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization - WTO) ...
RBS reports huge loss after $11.4b subprime hit
LONDON - The Royal Bank of Scotland revealed an 11.4-billion-dollar hit from the US subprime crisis on Friday, and a ...
Politics
Gandhi, Bhutto clans turn nostalgic
BEIJING - The mood was sombre and nostalgic as the Gandhi and Bhutto families came face to face for first time on Friday after a ...
4 'N' ministers rejoin cabinet
ISLAMABAD - PML-N Friday rejoined the federal cabinet by accepting four ministerial portfolios in the first phase while remaining ...
Musharraf advised to pad up
ISLAMABAD - The political and legal aides of President Pervez Musharraf advised him to face the impeachment and fight instead of ...
No bar on President to use 58-2(b)
LAHORE - There is no constitutional bar on the President on dissolving National Assembly in case impeachment proceedings are ...
Senate passes resolution to disband NAB
ISLAMABAD - The Senate on Friday unanimously passed a resolution for the abolition of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) while ...
Russia, Georgia on brink of war
MOSCOW - Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili said that his country was under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes ...
Impeachment move ahead of restoring judges slammed
NEW YORK - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has denounced the ruling coalition's decision to seek President Pervez ...
ISI involved in Afghan violence: US
WASHINGTON - The top US commander in Afghanistan Thursday publicly accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ...
IHK in grip of worst tensions
SRINAGAR - Kashmir is facing shortages of food, fuel and medicine as the revolt-hit region is gripped by the worst ...
26 brigadiers promoted as major-general
ISLAMABAD - The two-day meeting of Pakistan Army's Selection Board, presided by the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez ...
PM flight delay report complete
LONDON - The inquiry report of delay into the flight of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at Heathrow Airport London to ...
Entertainment
Is there life on Jupiter's moon Europa?
WITH average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a ...
Cyrus will end up marrying Jonas
TEEN star Miley Cyrus is everywhere, including the cover of the September issue of Seventeen magazine. In the story, Cyrus ...
Katie Holmes takes adorable Suri in the park
AMID speculation she may be pregnant with husband Tom Cruise's second child, Katie Holmes shows how she's taken to motherhood ...
The night Max got the munchies
THERE are times when you've got to have sweets and you just can't wait. So when three-year- old Max McGrath woke up in the ...
Goldfish who swims upside down
THESE days pet fish come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Indeed, the ordinary goldfish has come to seem just that. But ...
Sydney anxiously awaits Sunday
SYDNEYSIDERS have been gripped with "Sunday Rose" fever, following new parents Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's desperate lengths ...
Islamabad
When it rains, it pours
ISLAMABAD - Heavy downpour on Friday afternoon brought a pleasant weather change but played havoc with the commuters and ...
Pakistan seeks durable relations with ASEAN, says Qureshi
ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan attaches great importance to its relations, rooted in ...
ICTA to set up rehabilitation centre for beggers
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has decided to set up a rehabilitation center for the poor and ...
International Youth Day
ISLAMABAD (APP) - To mark International Youth Day on August 12, Youth Advocacy Network (YAN), a youth led initiative of World ...
'Hand washing can save millions of infants'
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Experts at an interactive session Friday said that hand washing can avert impacts of poor hygienic conditions ...
Pervez Ashraf offers investment to Poland
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday offered Poland to invest in the coal power ...
Karachi
Dictators never wanted free media
KARACHI - The representatives from different segments of life have strongly condemned the bill titled 'Freedom of Information ...
KU frequent robberies expose security flaws
KARACHI - Despite the presence of strong security system, frequent criminal incidents at Karachi University (KU) have exposed the ...
'Zardari's guard occupied dam'
KARACHI - Chairman Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) Muhammad Ali Shah, alleged on Friday that a land grabber, who claimed to be a ...
New DG Maritime Security Agency
Karachi (PPI) - Rear Admiral Azher Shamim Anwar has assumed the charge as Director General, Maritime Security Agency (MSA), in a ...
15th Sadquain Awards to be held soon
KARACHI - Community Development Department (CDD) of CDGK will organise the 15th Sadquain Awards ceremony in the third week of ...
10 more dengue patients hospitalised
KARACHI (PPI) - Ten more dengue fever patients were admitted in government and private hospitals of Karachi during the last 24 ...
Lahore
Asif faces ban for Dubai misdemeanor
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board's fact-finding committee has recommended ban of some matches on pacer Mohammad Asif for his ...
No respite for Lahorites from monsoon havoc
LAHORE - The Wasa will remain helpless to rescue Lahorites throughout monsoon as 140 generators required to install tube wells, ...
PA members annoyed over bureaucracy's performance
LAHORE - It still seems that the bureaucracy is yet to be woken up from its deep slumber of the previous days, as the Punjab ...
More rains likely
LAHORE -The City received scattered rain on Friday with experts predicting more rains during the next 24 hours. Lahore received 4 ...
8 terrorists involved in sucide attacks arrested
LAHORE - Capital City Police claimed to have arrested eight alleged terrorists involved in suicide attacks at Sargodha Police ...
KEMU medics to opt for varsity, health department
LAHORE - Unrest gripped the senior doctors and staff of the King Edward Medical University on Friday, when the Punjab Health ...
PA to adopt resolution against Musharraf
LAHORE - Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz has said that after passing a resolution against the use of 58-2 (b) by the president, ...
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