Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
The Nation in print for Saturday, December 19, 2009
Front Page
Secy, 3 FIA men suspended for stopping Mukhtar
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has suspended Secretary Interior Ch Qamar Zaman, Additional Director FIA and two inspectors deputed, for stopping Defence Minister Ch Ahmad Mukhtar at the Islamabad airport from boarding a plane for China. The Prime Minister while talking to media ...
NAB courts summon Malik, Farooqui, Badr, Siraj
SHAFI BALOCH and Amir Riaz KARACHI/LAHORE - Accountably Court of Sindh on Friday summoned for January 8 next year Federal ...
12 dead in Dir mosque blast
PESHAWAR At least 12 persons including two children were killed and 28 others got injured in Timergira area of Lower Dir when a ...
International
UN rushes tents and supplies for IDPs
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday it is rushing hundreds of tents to supplement Government relief ...
Eight dead in cargo ship sinking off Lebanese coast: UN
UNITED NATIONS United Nations-led rescue teams searched the stormy waters off the Lebanese coast Lebanon on Friday after a cargo ...
CIA linked to Palestinians torture in West Bank
PALESTINIAN security agents who have allegedly tortured Hamas supporters in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, ...
Last-ditch push on climate change deal
COPENHAGEN (AFP/Reuters) - Marathon UN climate talks lurched into overtime Friday with world leaders deadlocked on a deal to tame ...
Iran rebuts allegation
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi official claimed Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraqi territory on Friday and took up position ...
Global swine flu deaths pass 10,000: WHO
GENEVA (AFP) - The number of swine flu deaths worldwide passed the 10,000 mark about eight months after the pandemic strain was ...
EU to work for Palestinian state in 2010: Spain
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Spain, as incoming European Union President, will work to build next year a Palestinian state living peacefully ...
Obama following in Bush footsteps: Iranian President
COPENHAGEN/TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama of following the footsteps of George ...
US and Russia fail to clinch nuclear arms deal
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev failed to clinch a landmark pact cutting Cold ...
Most Russians admire Stalins leadership: Poll
MOSCOW (AFP) - A majority of Russians admire the leadership of Joseph Stalin, a poll showed Friday amid renewed controversy over ...
We will be fine without Tiger: US PGA boss
ORLANDO (Florida) (AFP) Tiger Woods halting his golf career will not bring doom and gloom to the US PGA Tour, commissioner Tim ...
Dhoni boosts India with century
NAGPUR (India) (AFP) Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed a robust century to help India post a challenging 301-7 in the second ...
Federer shatters Grand Slam records, Nadal worries
PARIS (AFP) Roger Federer, superstar and super dad, cemented his status as the greatest player of all time in 2009 as fears ...
Challenging year for Asian golf
SINGAPORE (AFP) Asian golf experienced a year of upheaval in 2009, but the season will also be remembered for Yang Youn-Euns ...
Hasegawa retains WBC bantamweight title
KOBE (Japan) (AFP) Hozumi Hasegawa successfully defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title on Friday in the ...
Gasquet ready to turn the page
PARIS (AFP) After his nightmare 2009 season, French tennis player Richard Gasquet insists he now wants to turn the page and get ...
Business
Cotton yarn export ban not acceptable: Aptma
LAHORE (APP) - Ban on export of cotton yarn will not be acceptable as the yarn is surplus in the country and certain mafia is ...
Special Cabinet meeting soon to resolve yarn issue
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Textile Industry Rana Farooq Saeed Khan said on Friday a special meeting of the Federal Cabinet ...
PTA show-cause notices to mobile cos
ISLAMABAD - Mobile phone operators in Pakistan are to face the music for allegedly failing to maintain the quality of service as ...
CNG bodies oppose strike call
KARACHI - CNG Station Owners Association (CSOAP) and CNG Dealers Association (CDA) have announced disassociation from the strike ...
Telecom making enormous progress
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Friday said that telecom sector in Pakistan has made enormous progress ...
SBP launches 3 NWFP-specific schemes
PESHAWAR (APP) - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has launched four special schemes with three NWFP specific for the facilitation of ...
KSE remains in red zone
KARACHI - The negative sentiment continued at KSE as the proceedings of the accountability court against ministers facing charges ...
CM for exporting Halal meat from Punjab
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government is taking all out measures for the promotion ...
Perception
Perception, Market Confidence, Image, Call it by any name, but this notion is the key to the success of any economy in the world. ...
'Turn-around in Steel Mills expected in third quarter'
KARACHI (APP) - Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) will witness a turn-around in the third quarter of current financial year after ...
Politics
SC sets Karachi land lease at naught
ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court on Friday directed for handing over possession of 4.958 acres playgrounds land to City District ...
Musharraf involved in corruption scams: Nisar
ISLAMABAD Chairman Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has said that the PAC would review 15 cases of ...
PPP, 'N' heading for confrontation?
LAHORE The new political landscape emerging after Apex Courts verdict on the NRO would be dominated by confrontation between the ...
PML-N asks PPP to review its priorities
ISLAMABAD PML-N, Friday, called upon the PPP-led coalition to review its priority order to steer the country out of the ...
PPP, MQM not on same page
ISLAMABAD The ruling PPP and its coalition partners are not on the same page over the issue of reducing the number of ministries ...
ISI clearance mandatory for visit to Pak, foreigners told
ISLAMABAD In a major policy decision, the government has made it mandatory for the Pakistani missions abroad to issue visas to ...
Asif meets coalition, PPP big guns
ISLAMABAD President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday assured coalition partners including the ANP and MQM that the Presidency would ...
NA body for check on Americans' activities
ISLAMABAD National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights, Friday, expressed its concerns over the activities of foreign ...
Govt unlikely to pursue NRO cases
ISLAMABAD Giving tacit impression of Governments intention of not pursuing the issue of Swiss cases, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf ...
Another drones strike kills 12 in NW
MIRANSHAH At least 12 suspected militants were killed and many others got injured when US drones again hit a house, a compound ...
Imran targets US, govt over drone hits
ISLAMABAD Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan on Friday condemned the US and Pakistani governments for the growing ...
SC moved against NRO tainted MPs
ISLAMABAD (Online) Eligibility of national and provincial assemblies members who had benefited from National Reconciliation ...
India pulls 30,000 troops out of HK
NEW DELHI (AFP) The Indian army said Friday it had pulled 30,000 troops out of Kashmir. We have moved out two divisions of ...
Kasab recants confession
MUMBAI (AFP) Ajmal Kasab on trial in India over the attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai last year retracted his confession ...
Advani quits, Sushma Opp leader in LS
NEW DELHI (Agencies) Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L K Advani on Friday handed over the baton of ...
PPP ministers not to quit
ISLAMABAD Pakistan Peoples Party leadership is firm on the single point that no federal minister nor anyone of the government ...
32 killed in SW, Orakzai, Khyber
ORAKZAI AGENCY At least 14 militants were killed and several others got injured when gunship helicopters pounded their hideouts ...
UN Ombudsperson to review terror suspects list
UNITED NATIONS In a significant move, the Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution with specific aim that UN ...
Pakistan should not go down the road of coups
WASHINGTON - Pakistans Ambassador to US, Husain Haqqani, Thursday expressed the hope that the military, the government and the ...
US offering bribes, talks to Taliban: WT
WASHINGTON - The United States and its allies are stepping up negotiations with representatives of Mullah Omar and other Taliban ...
Call to halt mly op in FATA
RAWALPINDI Following the directions of Ex-Servicemen Society (ESS), its political wing Tameer-e-Pakistan Party (TPP) has ...
UN set to relocate offices despite PM's assurances
ISLAMABAD United Nations is all set to relocate its offices in Pakistan despite repeated assurances from highest governmental ...
Pak re-elected external auditor of UNIDO
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Auditor General of Pakistan has been re-elected as external Auditor of United Nations Industrial Development ...
Renowned TV actor killed while cleaning gun
QUETTA - Renowned TV actor and brother of Deputy Secretary to Chief Minister Balochistan, Sarmad Gichki was killed while cleaning ...
Tech college blown up in Bara
BARA (Online) Unknown militants Friday blew up an under-construction building of a government technical college in Bara of ...
Entertainment
Courtney Love's daughter granted restraining order
COURTNEY Loves daughter has been granted a restraining order against the singer. Frances Bean Cobain - whose father is late ...
Living in big cities makes you miserable
LIVING in big cities makes you miserable and people are actually more happy away from urban areas, claims research. Researchers ...
Hathaway 'gets close to Jake Gyllenhaal'
HOLLYWOOD good girl Anne Hathaway has been getting chummy with Jake Gyllenhaal following the stars recent split from his ...
Garner 'stalker' faces charges
A MAN has been charged with stalking actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, after police said he showed up at their daughters ...
Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dies
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Jennifer Jones, an Oscar-winning Hollywood leading lady in the 1940s and 1950s, died of natural causes at her ...
Formula for beautiful face found
BEING described as Miss Average is not usually regarded as a compliment. But that may be about to change after scientists ...
Islamabad
FC man hurt in Khuzdar
QUETTA - A security personnel was injured during an armed attack in Khuzdar District on Friday while a truck of coast guard ...
Jirga urges govt to close down Karkawand fair Muqaddam Khan
SWABI - The members of Dagai Jirga have warned the local administration and the contractor that if they failed to close down the ...
Two awarded death for murdering Pindi's star cop
RAWALPINDI Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No 1, Friday, awarded capital punishment to two convicts Eid Muhammad and ...
2 awarded death for murdering Pindi's star cop
RAWALPINDI Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No 1, Friday, awarded capital punishment to two convicts Eid Muhammad and ...
Security on high alert in Capital
ISLAMABAD The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA) and the Capital Police are all set to implement security plan ...
Pakistan's lower judiciary doing well: US judges
ISLAMABAD (APP) Two judges of United States District Courts Friday stated that lower judiciary in Pakistan was doing much in the ...
Autumn flower show kicks off today
RAWALPINDI A two-day Chrysanthemum and Autumn Flower Show is starting today (Saturday) at Pir Mehr Ali Shah-Arid Agriculture ...
Civil society stage demo against militancy
ISLAMABAD Civil society activists on Friday staged a protest in front of the Saudi Pak Tower building against militancy, ...
Police to net malicious Halwa presenter soon
ISLAMABAD The presenter of the poisonous Halwa would be arrested soon as his video clipping has been collected, Secretariat ...
KRL beat Customs by nine wickets in Quaid Trophy
ISLAMABAD Hosts Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) won the final round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy by beating Customs by nine ...
Karachi
CNG buses project fate linked to Pak-Iran gas pipeline
KARACHI - Sindh Government on Friday informed the Provincial Assembly that fate of the environment friendly Compressed Natural ...
Another swine flu case confirmed
KARACHI - Another swine flu case has been confirmed positive by the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad in Sindh, ...
Main culprit of bank heists arrested
KARACHI - Capital City Police Office (CCPO) Karachi Waseem Ahmed on Friday claimed that the Police have arrested the prime ...
Power supply to Safari Park, college stopped
KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has disconnected the electric supply to RLAK College of Home Economics due ...
PA passes law to establish university
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a bill into law to establish Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University here in ...
SHC directs reopening of security company office
KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday while adjourning the hearing on two different petitions till December 23, directed ...
AIBA appoints Sri Lankan to officiate
KARACHI An eight member Sri Lankan boxing squad has confirmed to travel to Pakistan to appear in the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto ...
Lahore
CTO, DSPs suspended over dancing party
LAHORE - Punjab Inspector General of Police Tariq Saleem Dogar, taking serious notice of the incident of Traffic Police Centre ...
7 judges appointed for special courts
LAHORE - Following the Supreme Courts judgment on National Reconciliation Ordinance, LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on ...
JI observes Thanksgiving Day
LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami observed Thanksgiving Day on Friday to express solidarity with the Apex Court on the historic decision ...
Govt contemplating 4 holidays on Ashura
LAHORE - The sacred month of Moharramul Harram heralding the new year 1431 Hijra in Islamic Calendar, will commence from Saturday ...
Gas suspension and low pressure irk Lahorites
LAHORE - Low pressure of gas owing to acute shortage is multiplying the miseries of the domestic consumers and motorists as well. ...
Names to be made public soon: Minister
LAHORE-State Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sumsam Bukhari on Friday said that Government would soon make public ...
CM asks students to spare no effort for country's uplift
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said that young generation being the custodian of the future should spare no ...
Contempt proceedings against Fed Secy, CS dropped
LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday dropped contempt of court proceedings against Federal Secretary ...
Younus impressed by Yousuf captaincy
LAHORE Pakistan captain Younus Khan was impressed by the captaincy and batting of star batsman Mohammad Yousuf who led the ...
Mustafa, Naveed emerge first day leaders
LAHORE The three days 26th Governors Cup Golf Tournament commenced at the par-72, Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course and at the end of ...
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