Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- 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
The Nation in print for Saturday, December 13, 2008
Front Page
Pakistan turns screw on Daawa
KARACHI/PESHAWAR/LAHORE - Pakistan on Friday tightened the screw on Jamaatud Daawa, arresting scores of its members and sealing dozens of offices. Amid intense international pressure to crack down on militant organisations, authorities stepped up its actions against the charity. Police in Pakistan ...
Probe Mumbai attacks thoroughly, says Ponte
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Asking Pakistan to "act forcefully" against what he called terrorist outfits, the United States on Friday ...
Militants destroy ANP MNA's house
SWAT - At least three persons, including two children, were killed and four others injured on Friday as a result of the security ...
15 more Nato trucks blown up
PESHAWAR - Around 15 more trailers, carrying goods to Afghanistan for the NATO forces, have been blown up, a police official ...
International
Bush admin plans to sign nuclear agreement with UAE
NEW YORK - The Bush administration plans to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) within the ...
Sorenstam leads at halfway stage in Dubai
DUBAI (AFP) - Annika Sorenstam was back in a familiar position - on top of the leaderboard - at the halfway stage Friday of the ...
English clubs plan 'twinning' in Asia
TOKYO (AFP) - The English Premier League plans to help develop professional football clubs in Asia through "twinning" ...
Bangladesh poll campaign starts
DHAKA (Agencies) - Campaigning has begun for Bangladesh's upcoming general elections, with the army-backed interim government ...
Iranians chant 'death to Israel and America'
TEHRAN (AFP) - Thousands of Iranians on Friday chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" as they demonstrated in Tehran ...
Major Sumatran quake, tsunami likely in decades
SINGAPORE (AFP) - More than one million people on Indonesia's Sumatra island are vulnerable to a massive earthquake and tsunami ...
Brown, European leaders may be target of Qaeda plot
LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other European leaders gathered for the two-day summit in Brussels could have ...
BD politics still 'fragile, complex': think-tank
DHAKA (Agencies) - Bangladesh's political situation remains "complex and fragile" less than three weeks before it holds elections ...
Boy injured by Israeli gunshots
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A 13-year-old Palestinian boy suffered serious head wounds after being shot by Israeli troops in the occupied ...
Canada's Afghan mission will end in 2011
MONTREAL (AFP) - Canada reiterated Thursday its mission in war-torn Afghanistan will last until 2011, after US Secretary of ...
The boss' paperweight was packed with TNT
LONDON - When a friend out diving found a foot-long lump of metal on the seabed, printing firm boss Jeff Hayes decided it would ...
Six face terror charges in Belgium
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Six people were charged by Belgian prosecutors with belonging to a terrorist group on Friday after they were ...
Business
Moody's changes Pak outlook to negative
KARACHI - Moody's Investors Service's, a global credit rating providing company, has changed the outlook on Pakistan's B3 ...
Trade deficit surges to $8.73b
KARACHI- Trade deficit of Pakistan has widened to 8.736 billion dollars during the five months of current financial year ...
Bumper rice crop unlikely
KARACHI - The bumper rice crop production is unlikely this year due to number of reasons in the country, growers told The ...
Korean companies to invest in Terbela water pipeline project
ISLAMABAD (APP) - A consortium of Korean Companies has shown interest to invest US$300 million in development of supply of ...
Crisis to worsen in 2009, warns IMF
SAN JOSE (AFP) - International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has warned that the financial crisis would worsen in ...
KSE announces to remove 'floor' on 15th
KARACHI - Acting on the directive of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) over the removal of floor mechanism, ...
EGIBL and Takaful Pakistan ink agreement
KARACHI - Emirates Global Islamic Bank Limited (EGIBL) has entered into an agreement with Takaful Pakistan to provide 24 hours ...
Modest volume keeps stock market unchanged
LAHORE - The first and last day of business week activity on Friday after Eidul Azha holidays, volume again remained modest and ...
Export of permissible FCYs
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan in a circular issued on Friday said that it would be compulsory for exchange companies to ...
Pakistani rock salt demanded in IHK
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in occupied Kashmir has said that rock salt of Pakistan has a ...
Politics
Rumsfeld responsible for detainee abuse
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan Senate report concludes that decisions made by former Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld were a "direct ...
Pakistan should go an extra mile to combat terror: Nawaz
PML-N Quaid and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said if Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone attacker captured alive in Mumbai, was ...
Lawyers move SHC against govt decision
KARACHI - The lawyers fraternity on Friday challenged in Sindh High Court the notification issued regarding appointment of the ...
UN official suspended for arranging porn viewings
UNITED NATIONS - A UN official, who routinely gathered a number of his colleagues in his office for pornography viewings, has ...
Bid to bomb DI Khan mosque foiled
PESHAWAR - The security forces on Friday foiled a suicide bomber's bid to attack people while praying Jumma prayer and arrested ...
UK supports Pak offer to India
ISLAMABAD (APP) - British Foreign Minister David Miliband on Friday said his government supports Pakistan's recent offer to send ...
India working on new tech to monitor boats
ISLAMABAD - India has stepped up efforts to develop a technology on a fast track basis to be capable of monitoring the movement ...
Daawa to challenge ban in court
LAHORE (AFP) - Jamaatud Daawa, one of country's biggest charities, said Friday it would mount a legal challenge to the decision ...
Punjab APC extends full support to Centre
LAHORE - The participants of an All Parties Conference (APC) held here on Friday under the aegis of Punjab govt, decided to ...
Securitisation of $2b national assets on cards
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan would keep securitisation, and GDRs of national assets worth $2 billion as the last option to fetch foreign ...
Entertainment
Brown named artist of the year
R&B singer Chris Brown has been named Billboard magazine's artist of the year for the second time. The 19-year-old also won the ...
Miley Cyrus' reaction to Golden Globe nomination
MILEY Cyrus isn't even old enough to vote, yet she's accomplished more as a 16 year-old than most of us will in our lifetime. ...
'Oldest human brain' discovered
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found the remains of what could be Britain's oldest surviving human brain. The team, excavating a York ...
Madonna & Ritchie battle over kids' Christmas holiday
MADONNA and Guy Ritchie are locked in a bitter battle over who will have their children for Christmas. The British director is ...
Women who cut out carbohydrates 'could lose memory'
CUTTING out bread and pasta may be an easy way to shed a few pounds, but it may not be quite so good for your memory, according ...
Miss World to be crowned after South African safari
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - More than 100 of the world's most beautiful women compete Saturday for the Miss World crown, after a month ...
Islamabad
Palwasha wins rock climbing competition
ISLAMABAD - The rock climbing competitions concluded here at Margallah Hill in which over 250 boys and girls took part for the ...
PSB reschedules Inter-Provincial Games
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has rescheduled the Inter-Provincial Under-14 Boys events that will be held in April ...
Justice Iftikhar turns 60
ISLAMABAD - The defiant deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry celebrated his 60th birthday here ...
Fear still haunts foreigners
ISLAMABAD - While majority of Westerners, both Americans and Britons have left Pakistan, those who are still staying here are ...
Anti-child labour to be implemented soon
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - National policy and plan of action for gradual elimination of all forms of child labour in Paksitan is to be ...
Policy to eliminate child labour to be implemented soon
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - National policy and plan of action for gradual elimination of all forms of child labour in Paksitan is to be ...
Aerobics suppress appetite
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Sixty minutes of vigorous aerobic exercises on a treadmill is better than 90 minutes of weight-lifting in ...
Concern over halt in Pak-India trade talks
ISLAMABAD (Online)- India and Pakistan offer tremendous opportunities of enhancing bilateral trade which can prove beneficial for ...
Karachi
Etihad Airways amateur golf tees off from today
KARACHI - As many as 168 golfers of the city have registered to appear in the two day Etihad Amateur Golf Championships that tees ...
Aamir lone Pakistani in richest ever squash event
KARACHI (PPI) - Aamir Atlas Khan is the only Pakistani player who made it to the main rounds of Saudi International - which offer ...
Energy resources in Sindh can boost S Asain industry
KARACHI - The region of South Asia has a very large potential of energy production which can help boost the industrial sector of ...
Shia leaders fail to resolve differences
KARACHI - A high-level meeting of the top religious Shia scholars and organisations, held the other day to resolve their ...
Literary loot strips City Govt libraries of rare books
KARACHI - The Community Development Department of CDGK has failed to retrieve the rare books once owned by City Govt libraries ...
1,56,362 violence cases reported across country
KARACHI - The Madadgaar database report revealed that during the last nine years from January 2000 to November 2008, nationwide ...
New Schools opened in Jafferabad
KARACHI - SSGC' s unflagging obligation towards the cause of education continued with the recent inauguration of two newly ...
Prize-distribution ceremony
KARACHI - The annual prize distribution and talent show of DHA Iqra Model High School was held here on Friday. Director Education ...
Lahore
Mustafa sets the pace
LAHORE - After the first of the three-round Millat Tractors endorsed 25th Governors Cup Golf Tournament, the ambitious ones ...
NBP Gold Cup Hockey from 22
LAHORE - The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Gold Cup Hockey Tournament will be held from December 22 to 30 here at National ...
Pakistan, Thailand clash today
LAHORE - Opportunist striker Saman Islam, member of Lahore-based sporting family, will be in action when Pakistan will take on ...
AFC praises PFF for women soccer uplift
LAHORE - The 46 nations affiliated with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) should put more effort into the grassroots development ...
POs with Rs2m bounty killed
LAHORE - Two proclaimed offenders with head money of Rs 2 million were killed in a police encounter at Gulberg here on Friday. ...
Govt attitude made Pakistan laughing stock, says Nawaz
LAHORE - PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that present government's bow before international pressure is the continuation ...
Punjab to be purged of fake drugs by Jan 15
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has directed concerned authorities in health department to purge the province ...
Hearing of plea against CM order postponed
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court after assurance from advocate general Punjab, (AG) postponed the hearing of a petition challenging ...
LDA pulls down 42 illegal structures
LAHORE - In connection with LDA's ongoing campaign for demolishing encroachment, as many as 42 structures in and around the Main ...
Show some difference
LAHORE - The Punjab Governor on return from his visit abroad while addressing a Press conference expressed his serious exception ...
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