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 Monday, December 15, 2008
Front Page
Bush on Iraq visit: 'It is the farewell kiss, you dog'
BAGHDAD (Agencies) - An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W Bush, without hitting him, as the US President was shaking hands with the Iraqi Premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday. The reporter also called Bush a "dog" in Arabic. As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki's ...
UK demand for handing over terror suspects rejected
LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan has rejected British government's demand to hand over suspects ...
Transporters halt Kabul-bound supplies
PESHAWAR - The transporters have halted every kind of supplies to Afghanistan due to frequent attacks on the trucks and ...
KSE lifts floor on share prices today
KARACHI - The floor rule on share prices will come to an end today as both Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan and ...
International
Jewish leaders asked to repudiate columnist's call to 'kill' Muslims
NEW YORK: - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group, has called on leaders of the Jewish ...
Gaza truce to end on 19th: Hamas
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza said on Sunday that a troubled Cairo-brokered truce ...
Thai MPs offered 1m each to back new govt
THE price for a lawmakers' vote for prime minister in Thailand has soared during the past week of frantic negotiations with MPs ...
Babylon's history swept away in US army sandbags
BABYLON, Iraq (AFP) - Fragments of bricks, engraved with cuneiform characters thousands of years old, lie mixed with the rubble ...
Israel to free 227 Palestinians today
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is planning to free 227 Palestinian prisoners on Monday (today), military radio reported, after a ...
Premier rejects move
BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's president announced Sunday he was sacking the cabinet but the premier rejected the move as ...
Nato looks to north Afghan neighbours for supplies
KABUL (Agencies) - Nato is in talks with Afghanistan's northern neighbours to allow the shipment of more supplies to troops, the ...
Uneasy peace prevails for Indian Muslims
The Muslims of terror-plagued Mumbai know the drill. First there is bloodshed. Then come the whispers, the accusing stares, the ...
Pakistan's actions following Mumbai attacks hailed: Haqqani
WASHINGTON: - The actions taken by Pakistan's government after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai have been widely welcomed ...
Zardari calls Hamid Gul political ideologue of terror
NEW YORK: - President Asif Ali Zardari has described former ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul as "more of a political ideologue of ...
Politics
Beijing holds anti-terror drill
BEIJING (AFP) - China's capital has carried out anti-terrorist drills to ward off an attack similar to the deadly assault on ...
America, Iraq sign security agreement
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Outgoing US President George W Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday signed a security accord ...
55 killed in Egypt bus crash
DAHRUT (AFP) - An Egyptian bus crowded with passengers, many of them students, veered off the road into a canal south of Cairo on ...
Militants kill Swat religious figure
MINGORA - Taliban militants Sunday claimed killing of religious figure Pir Samiullah along with four others and occupying Mandal ...
35 militants dead in Afghan operation
KABUL (AFP) - Thirty-five Taliban fighters have been killed in an operation to "clean up" areas controlled by the militants in a ...
Omar seeks Muslims' support against US
PESHAWAR - Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has urged all Muslim countries, particularly neighbouring states, to help ...
Reconstruction of Iraq a $100b failure: report
NEW YORK - US efforts to rebuild Iraq have been a $100 billion failure, hampered by poor pre-invasion planning and ongoing turf ...
BRP calls for shutterdown strike on 19th
QUETTA - The Baloch Republican Party (BRP) has given a call for shutter down strike across the Balochistan on December 19 against ...
FBI takes DNA samples of attackers
The FBI and other western investigating agencies have taken DNA samples of all nine suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba activists killed in ...
NA meets today
ISLAMABAD - The 10th National Assembly session would be held today (Monday) under the chairmanship of Speaker NA Dr Fehmida ...
India denies violating Pak airspace
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India on Sunday denied any of its aircraft had intruded into Pakistani airspace, as tensions ran high between ...
Iran shuns Paris conference, No regional peace sans safe Afghanistan
PARIS (AFP) - Top envoys from Afghanistan, neighbouring nations and the world's great powers agreed Sunday at a Paris meeting ...
Crackdown launched on Al-Amin Trust
LAHORE/KARACHI - The security agencies during the crackdown against defunct religious organisations on Sunday carried out raids ...
Two women executed in Swat
SWAT - At least three persons including two women were killed and another was injured in separate incidents of firing ...
Entertainment
No easy fix for US newspaper industry
WASHINGTON - Circulation is dropping, print advertising revenue is falling and readers are going online to get news for free, ...
Visit five rare places before they vanish
PYRAMIDS OF GIZA Of all the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one is still standing: the Great Pyramid of Cheops. ...
Alexandra Burke wins Britain's top TV show
LONDON - Alexandra Burke won the 2008 edition of the British music reality television contest "The X Factor" on Saturday, ...
Pizza used in self-defence
A Florida pizza deliveryman who was challenged by armed robbers in the city of Miramar got in first with his own weapon - a large ...
First model of Japan's bullet train runs for final time
TOKYO - The first ever model of Japan's world-famous bullet train Sunday enjoyed its farewell run, its operator said, 44 years ...
Jennifer Aniston appears in GQ magazine
LOS ANGELES - US actress Jennifer Aniston, who starred in "Friends" and other comedies, appears naked in a series of photographs ...
Islamabad
Lok Virsa keeps folk music traditions alive
ISLAMABAD - National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, Lok Virsa is holding a series of programmes entitled "Mausiqi ...
NAs become safe haven for smuggled vehicles
ISLAMABAD - The smuggled vehicles that are stolen from different cities of Pakistan are being smuggled to Northern Areas, ...
Sale of substandard flour continues without check
ISLAMABAD -All efforts on part of both federal and Punjab governments seemed futile to bring down the prices of flour and to ...
Punjab govt urged to regularise contractual clerks
RAWALPINDI - Though the Punjab government has promised to regularise the contractual clerks yet no any solid action has been ...
Govt urged to make plan to boost agri production
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) here on Sunday stressed the need for boosting agriculture and ...
War no solution to problems, says Aitzaz
ISLAMABAD - Former president Supreme Court Bar Aitzaz Ahsan has said that war is no solution to the problems facing Pakistan and ...
Karachi
CDGK revolutionises educational system
KARACHI - The poor standard of education in government schools and dilapidated condition of the buildings is not a hidden aspect ...
Crackdown against AAT; 24 offices sealed
KARACHI - On the directives of federal government, massive crackdown has been started against the Al-Amin Trust (AAT). As many as ...
Altaf calls for Pak-India dialogue
KARACHI - MQM Chief Altaf Hussain said that war was not in the interest of both countries Pakistan and India and underlined the ...
P&DD officials deprived of perks
KARACHI - Various senior officers of Planning and Development Department of Sindh have been deprived of government vehicles and ...
Painting exhibition inaugurated
KARACHI - A painting exhibition, jointly organised by the Art Exhibitors and Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, was inaugurated on ...
Dacoit arrested after encounter
KARACHI - The police arrested an injured dacoit after an alleged encounter within the jurisdiction of Jackson police station in ...
Lahore
Food Support Programme to assist 1.8m poor: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that no stone would be left unturned for the welfare of the masses ...
PU admin resolute to check illegal activities
LAHORE - Punjab University spokesman has said that an IJT activist Hafiz Farhan Ahmed, who is son-in-law of Prof Naseer is a ...
City filling stations go dry
LAHORE - There are petrol pumps everywhere in the Punjab province but not a drop of fuel to fill the empty tanks of vehicles and ...
Violation of Pakistan airspace widely flayed
LAHORE - Leaders of different political parties Sunday condemned the violation of Pakistan airspace. Punjab Chief Minister Mian ...
'N' raps FO for inaction over UN resolution to ban Daawa
LAHORE - The PML-N has denounced the Foreign Office for its inactiveness facilitating the Security Council resolution to ban some ...
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