Thursday, February 23, 2012
- PML-N not serious in making alliance: Saifullah
- Imran wants Mohammad Amir back in team
- Argentine train slams into station, killing 49
- Two politicians beaten to death in India
- Imran misleading nation on 20th amendment: Kh Saad
- Mansoor Ijaz deposes before memo tribunal
- 3rd T20: SAfrica beat New Zealand by 3 runs to win series 2-1
- Barhamdagh Bugti supports US bill on Balochistan
- Nawaz conditions APC participation to missing persons' recovery, leaves for Umrah
- US presses Pakistan to allow bases near Iran: Report
The Nation in print for Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Front Page
Gaddafi on the run as revolt hits Tripoli
TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday as Muammar Gaddafis four-decade-old rule appeared in increasing jeopardy when days of anti-government protests reached the capital for the first time and security forces killed at least 160 people. A ...
Pakistan, US not on same page: PM
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday, while giving policy statement in the National Assembly, reiterated ...
Nawaz warns of parting ways
LAHORE After blasting President Asif Ali Zardari the other day allegedly for frustrating PML-N efforts aimed at reconciliation, ...
International
UN chief asks Gaddafi to stop violence immediately
UNITED NATIONS - In an extensive telephonic discussion, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday urged Libyan leader Muammar ...
Egypt asks for freeze on Mubarak assets
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor on Monday moved to freeze the foreign assets of Hosni Mubarak, the first sign that ...
S Arabia slams US veto
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia voiced regret on Monday over a US veto of a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements on ...
Car bomb kills 17 in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb by rebels who profess loyalty to Al-Qaeda killed at least 17 people near a police ...
Nato investigates more Afghan civilian casualties
KABUL (Reuters) - The Nato-led force in Afghanistan said on Monday it was investigating another case in the east where its troops ...
Britain cancels Libya arms export licences
LONDON - The UK government has revoked eight individual UK arms export licenses to Libya as part of an "immediate and rapid" ...
More snow hits northeast region
NEW YORK - The United States' northeast was yet again blanketed Monday with snow, reminding residents that winter is still here. ...
Ivorian troops kill protesters, AU team arrives
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian troops killed at least six protesters calling on Laurent Gbagbo to step down as leader on Monday, ...
Bomber kills 13 policemen in Iraq
SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a car outside a shelter housing police officers in the northern Iraqi city of ...
MI5 had no inkling of 7/7 attacks: Top spy
LONDON (Reuters) - A top MI5 officer said on Monday the security services could not have stopped the 2005 suicide attacks on ...
Russia summons US envoy over Japan dispute
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said it summoned the US ambassador to a meeting on Monday to register disapproval of ...
CERN collider restarts search for cosmic mysteries
GENEVA (Reuters) - CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up to resume full-speed particle collisions next month aimed at ...
Arab revolution far from over
DAVID HIRST The world has yet to settle on an agreed term for the great events unfolding across the Middle East. I was in the ...
Egypt Awakening, 2011
GARY STEVEN CORSERI The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a ...
A Tunisian solution for Egypts military
CLEMENT M HENRY AND ROBERT SPRINGBORG The popular uprisings that swept Egypt and Tunisia this winter were remarkably similar, but ...
Subcontinent: Future challenges
LAHORE Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir who met in Bhutanese capital Thimphu had failed ...
Business
Govt mulls addl revenue means
ISLAMABAD - The government wants to finalise its plan for additional revenue generation worth of some Rs 25 billion before its ...
Delay in PTA hits Pak-Indonesia trade
LAHORE - Ambassador of Republic of Indonesia Ishaq Latuconsina has said delay in signing of Preferential Trade Agreement is ...
Financial insecurity rising
LAHORE The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have asked the Trade and Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to provide the ...
150MW wind power plant
KARACHI (APP) Government of Sindh has planned to establish 150 MW of wind power plant in district of Thatta in collaboration ...
Chinese firm asked to expedite work
LAHORE - Wapda Chairman Shakil Durrani has directed the Chinese contractor Messers Dongfang Electric Corporation to accelerate ...
KSE falls below 12,000 points
KARACHI - Disruptions in global capital markets caused by anti-government protests, which have been spreading across the Middle ...
Passco to procure 1.3m tons wheat
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Mir Israrullah Zehri has said that Passco will procure 1.3 million tons of ...
Pakistan Week in Colombo
KARACHI - Pakistan Week is being held in Colombo in connection of PIAs flight operation to Colombo, Sri Lanka. PIA had started ...
Meeting to discuss CGT draft rules held at KSE
KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchanges (KSE) Committee on Taxation held a meeting with the senior officials of the Federal Board of ...
MOL finds gas and oil in Pakistan
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has found new oil and gas in the TAL block in Pakistan, the company said in ...
Food exports surge by 33pc in Jan
ISLAMABAD (APP) Food exports form the country witnessed an increase of 33 percent in January and 12.95 percent during the first ...
Meeting
LAHORE The Asian Cotton Research and Development Network is holding its fifth meeting on Wednesday (tomorrow) in city. The ...
Politics
Presidency notes Mirzas statement
Presidential spokesman Farhat Ullah Babar has said that President Asif Zardari has taken notice of Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar ...
PCO oath-takers no more judges, rules CJ
ISLAMABAD - The judges who took oath under Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) are no more judges of the superior courts as the ...
Egypt revolution a model for others: Envoy
ISLAMABAD - Political stagnation, economic hardships and high rate of inflation and unemployment are the factors that led to a ...
Seven face court martial
LAHORE A military court has begun hearing of the case of attack on General Headquarters (GHQ) as seven persons have been ...
Zardari seeks N-tech from Japan
TOKYO (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that since Japan is negotiating a deal with India to cooperate on peaceful uses ...
AG summoned on immunity
LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Monday gave the Attorney General of Pakistan till March 14 ...
PPP ,PML-N resume talks today
ISLAMABAD - The PPP-PML-N parliamentary committee headed by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh will resume today (Tuesday) ...
India proposes dates for talks
NEW Delhi has proposed two sets of dates - March 21-22 and March 28-29 - to Islamabad for home secretary-level talks in which ...
Drone strike kills five
PESHAWAR (Agencies) -A US drone strike in Pakistans lawless tribal region near the Afghan border - the second such attack in 24 ...
Peace in Balochistan must, vows Kayani
QUETTA - While terming a developed Balochistan as a guarantee for prosperous Pakistan, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez ...
Davis gets first taste of cries
LAHORE It was perhaps for the first time since his arrest for the gory crime he committed that Raymond Allen Davis broke into ...
Bombay court upholds death for Kasab
MUMBAI (Agencies) - Two Indian judges on Monday rejected the appeal of the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks ...
Gilani Jr well treated by FIA
ISLAMABAD - Abdul Qadir Gilani son of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday appeared before FIA team investigating ...
Bomber kills 31 at Afghan govt office
KUNDUZ (Agencies) - A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people in a government office in northern Afghanistan on Monday, ...
Kazmis bail accepted
RAWALPINDI - The court has accepted the interim bail of former federal minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi against surety bonds of Rs 0.1 ...
Sports
Johnson sinks Zimbabwe
AHMEDABAD (Agencies) - A disciplined performance in the field from Zimbabwe saw them restrict Australia to 262 for six in their ...
Ponting breaks record
AHMADABAD (Agencies) - Ricky Ponting broke the World Cup appearance record on Monday when he played his 40th game at the ...
Waqar firmly focused on teams future
HAMBANTOTA (Agencies) After enough controversy in the last few months to last a lifetime, Pakistan players can finally ...
Pakistan desperate to avoid repeat of upsets
HAMBANTOTA (Agencies) - Pakistan face minnows Kenya in their opening World Cup match on Wednesday, desperate to atone for their ...
Strauss wary of another Dutch debacle
NAGPUR (Agencies) - England captain Andrew Strauss warned his side to beware the Netherlands when they take on the 'minnows in ...
Gayle eyes magical 200-run mark
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - West Indies batting star Chris Gayle wants to emulate Indias Sachin Tendulkar and notch up one-day ...
Tight security at Kotla
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Ferozeshah Kotla is humming with activity. The stadium is all decked up colourfully. The hawk-eyed ...
National
The dawn of hope...
It is drama time at Radio Pakistan as the listeners, mainly rural or peri-urbanites have their ears glued to the air waves for, ...
MQM, PPP come face-to-face
KARACHI The PPP and MQM, once again, confronted each other in the Sindh Assembly on Monday on the issue of regularisation of ...
Nothing comes from nothing
It was mere rhetoric and addition to the prevailing confusion shrouding the Raymond Davis issue when Prime Minister Syed Yousuf ...
Kashmir patch-up to be 'game-changer
NEW YORK - A leading US newspaper Monday urged the Obama administration to quietly help India and Pakistan resolve their ...
Davis gets first taste of cries
LAHORE It was perhaps for the first time since his arrest for the gory crime he committed that Raymond Allen Davis broke into ...
Shams new PPP deputy info secretary
ISLAMABAD - (APP) A PPP activists has been appointed as Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Deputy Information Secretary. The PPP ...
Malik vows to tackle 'elements
ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the government knows how to tackle 'some elements, which are trying to ...
Protective bail granted to Moonis in NICL scam case
KARACHI The Sindh High Court on Monday granted protective bail to Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz ...
President bars PPP from taking action
ISLAMABAD - The central leadership of PPP has decided not to take any immediate disciplinary action against former Foreign ...
PPP doesnt believe in deadlines, Babar
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) made a mockery of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) by accepting turncoat politicians, ...
Wajahat asked to withdraw notice
LAHORE Responding to a legal notice of the PML(Q) leader Ch. Wajahat Hussain, the legal consultant of Zafar Qureshi, Additional ...
Rahat heads home
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will fly home from India later on Monday after paying a fine of $33,216, an embassy ...
US embassy moves court for release of vehicles
ISLAMABAD US Embassy in Pakistan through its counsel has approached Area Magistrate Islamabad for release of its two vehicles ...
Madaris agree to revise syllabus, NA informed
ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly was informed on Monday that the leadership of Itthad Tanzeemat-e-Madaris Pakistan (ITMP) had ...
Lahore
Davis mapped Pak targets, court told
LAHORE- A local lawyer has moved a petition in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Hussnain Qadir Ghallu against ...
Haj, Umra operators face consumer court
LAHORE- A consumer court on Monday issued a notice to AL-Arifa Private Ltd. (providing services for Hajj and Umra) for March 11 ...
Lollywood against visiting India
LAHORE After severe threats of Hindu extremist outfit Shiv Sena to Bollywood against giving performing assignments to Pakistani ...
Zardari loyalist gets big party position
LAHORE - PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has appointed a prominent campaigner of his release during his seven years in jail and ...
Lost love claims another life
LAHORE A 24-year-old desperate youth committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple outside the residence of his beloved ...
Nawaz calls meeting on 10-point agenda
LAHORE PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has called key party meeting on February 24 (Thursday) to primarily discuss N-PPP coor- ...
Centre to reply Davis petitions
LAHORE On another two petitions for seeking ISI handling of the Raymond Davis case as well as shifting of the double murder ...
MPAs call on CM
LAHORE Members Punjab Assembly of various districts met CM Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Monday at CMs Secretariat and ...
Hina Khosa laid to rest
LAHORE - Hina Khurram Khosa, daughter-in-law of Punjab Governor, Sardar Latif Khosa was laid to rest at PCSIR (phase-11) ...
Dacoits barge into bank, loot at 'will
LAHORE Dacoits robbed the Habib Bank Limiteds Lytton Road branch, situated few meters from the local police station, in broad ...
Reply sought from govt on Davis case handling by ISI
LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Monday sought reply from the respondent federal government through Deputy Attorney General on ...
AGP ordered to file reply in Malik plea
LAHORE - A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday directed the Attorney General of Pakistan to submit by March 10, ...
Private sector lauded for waste disposal
LAHORE Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, visited ...
Surgical operation needed to end spurious drugs, says CM
LAHORE Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said the elements involved in the heinous trade of spurious drugs are the ...
Punjab shakes up another seven officers
LAHORE The Punjab government on Monday transferred and posted seven officers. Muhammad Islam Siddique, Principal, Government ...
'Saad took benefit from Pervaiz Elahi
LAHORE - PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique before making statements in favour of the forward bloc turncoats should think that he ...
10-year jail for Incom Tax Commissioner
LAHORE - An Accountability Court on Monday awarded ten year imprisonment to an Additional Commissioner Income Tax (Sargodha), ...
'Mout Ka Khail staged against Davis adventure
LAHORE Reviving the street theatre culture and adopting a new way of protest, a student group 'Goonj on Monday staged 'Mout Ka ...
Plan for smooth traffic prepared
LAHORE - The City Traffic Police have prepared a plan to ensure smooth flow of traffic on citys arteries during rush hours. ...
Jail, fine for human traffickers
LAHORE- An FIA Court on Monday awarded four-year jail term each to Khalil Hussain, Aslam and Zahid Mukhtar when they found guilty ...
Finland to cooperate with Punjab
LAHORE Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said Daanish Schools will not only provide latest education to the students of ...
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