Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
The Nation in print for Thursday, February 25, 2010
Front Page
Kashmir, water top agenda: Pakistan
LAHORE Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir maintained on Wednesday that Pakistans agenda for talks with India is open in every respect and Kashmir dispute and water issue will be on top of it during todays (Thursdays) parleys in New Delhi as both sides exchanged terse allegations over the disputed ...
Rigi met US, Indian envoys in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD The presence of Jundullahs top man Abdol Malek Rigi in Afghanistan, a day prior to his arrest, is seen as part of ...
'N' wins NA-55 by-polls
RAWALPINDI PML-N candidate Malik Shakil Awan on Wednesday won the by-polls of the NA-55 with a convincing margin of 21,358 votes ...
International
Davydenko quits Dubai with wrist injury
DUBAI (AFP) Nikolay Davydenko, the ATP World Tour champion, is a doubt for Russias Davis Cup tie against India in Moscow on ...
Barca hold rampant Stuttgart at bay
STUTTGART (Germany) (AFP) Stuttgart gave reigning champions Barcelona all they had in their Champions League last-16 clash on ...
Ferdinand & Anderson injuries take shine off United win
MANCHESTER (AFP) Sir Alex Ferguson has been hit with a double injury blow ahead of Sundays League Cup final against Aston Villa ...
Record-smashing Tendulkar helps India clinch series
GWALIOR (India) (AFP) Sachin Tendulkar smashed a world-record 200 not out as India pounded South Africa by 153 runs in the ...
Lowering Indo-Pak tensions is US' main aim: report
WASHINGTON - Reducing India-Pakistan tensions is the centerpiece of the Obama administration's foreign policy amid an expanding ...
Russia warns against crippling Iran sanctions
MOSCOW (Agencies) - Russia will not support crippling sanctions against Iran, including any that may be slapped on the Islamic ...
Greek crisis spills onto its streets
ATHENS (Reuters/AFP) - Police fired teargas and clashed with youths Wednesday as tens of thousands protested in Athens, ...
US asks Syria to move away from Tehran
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Washington is urging Syria to move away from ally Iran as well as stop arming Hezbollah, cooperate in Iraq and ...
UAE broadens hunt for assassins
DUBAI (AFP/Reuters) - Police on Wednesday widened their search in the hunt for the killers of a top Hamas military commander in a ...
US, China at odds over climate talks in 2010
OSLO (Reuters) - The United States is at odds with China and other developing nations by favouring a Copenhagen climate accord as ...
Beijing suspends some mily exchanges with Washington: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AFP) - China has postponed at least three high-level exchanges with the US military after Washington approved an arms ...
Ban calls for eradicating slavery
UNITED NATIONS - Slavery is an abhorrent practice that still needs to be eradicated in many parts of the world, Secretary-General ...
12 remanded in custody in Turkey coup probe
ISTANBUL (Reuters/AFP) - Twelve senior Turkish military officers were remanded in custody on Wednesday over an alleged plot to ...
Scores feared dead in Indonesian landslide
CIWIDEY, Indonesia (AFP) - Hopes faded Wednesday for up to 70 people buried by a landslide that killed at least 16 in Indonesia, ...
Business
Sugar import thru Gwadar not feasible
KARACHI - Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has ruled out any import of sugar through Gwadar port, as it would cost them at ...
Water at Mangla Dam below dead level
LAHORE - The water level at Mangla Dam has reached below dead level and the reservoir got emptied on Wednesday after the last ...
CCP in liaison with SAARC
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) is in contact with competition authorities in the SAARC region to ...
Corolla prices raised by 2pc
KARACHI (APP) - Indus Motor Company (IMC) has raised the retail price of all Corolla variants by about 2pc with immediate ...
Another Thar coal block for mining shortly
KARACHI (APP) - Sindh Coal Authority (SCA) will offer Block-1 of Thar coal field for mining through open international bidding ...
Germany to help FBR in tax reforms
ISLAMABAD - Germany has pledged to help Pakistan in successfully implementing the reforms process currently underway in Federal ...
KSE loses 137 points on uncertainty, new taxes
KARACHI - The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index on Wednesday lost another 137.39 points, or 1.40 percent, ...
IMC profit soars to Rs1.37b
KARACHI - The Indus Motor Company Limited posted a profit after tax of Rs1.366 billion during the first six months (Jul-Dec) of ...
World trade suffers biggest drop since WWII
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Global trade last year suffered its biggest collapse since World War II, an unprecedented 12 percent drop ...
Pak plans 50 petroleum concession deals
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan plans to offer about 50 sites for oil and gas exploration through bidding in June, Saleem H ...
Politics
Rigi met US, Indian envoys in Afghanistan before arrest
ISLAMABAD The presence of Jundullahs top man Abdol Malek Rigi in Afghanistan, a day prior to his arrest, is seen as part of ...
Pre-poll rigging behind defeat: Rashid
RAWALPINDI - President Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that his defeat was a result of pre-poll rigging on the ...
US Senate slams 'reckless' Blackwater unit in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON Military contractors in Afghanistan working for the security company Blackwater regularly carried unauthorised ...
Baradar: To be or not to be handed over?
ISLAMABAD The tripartite meeting of the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday decided to establish 4 joint task forces ...
Senate told no change made in Pak delegation
ISLAMABAD State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Malik Amad Khan on Wednesday said that the negotiations with India would not be ...
NAB chief resigns
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Government wants to maintain cordial relations with judiciary and ...
Pak got 40pc less Chenab water in Jan: MNAs
ISLAMABAD National Assembly on Wednesday resumed discussion on construction of Bagliar and Kishan Ganga Dams and Wuller Barrage ...
Swiss cases reopening needs PM's nod
ISLAMABAD All eyes are set on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani as National Accountability Bureau on Wednesday ...
US missile strike kills 8 in NWA
MIRANSHAH (Reuters) A US drone aircraft fired three missiles into Pakistans North Waziristan Agency on the Afghan border on ...
Taliban behead three 'US spies'
MIRANSHAH (AFP) Taliban militants have beheaded three men including two Afghans in North Waziristan, accusing them of spying for ...
Pak helped Iran nab Rigi: envoy
TEHRAN (AFP) Pakistan played a role in helping Iran arrest its most-wanted militant Abdolmalek Rigi who was seized onboard a ...
Pakistan gets $349.3m from US
KARACHI (Reuters) Pakistan received on Wednesday $349.3 million from the United States as part of a fund to help the US ally ...
Sh Rashid joint candidate of anti-democratic forces: Shahbaz
LAHORE Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that the defeat of opposing candidate of PML-N in by-election of ...
Reforms body says no to ad hoc judges appointment
ISLAMABAD The Constitutional Reforms Committee of the Parliament agreed not to appoint ad hoc judges in the superior judiciary ...
Afghan official killed in drive-by shooting
KABUL (AFP) - The Taliban claimed responsibility for the drive-by shooting of a senior official in southern Afghanistan who was ...
Cabinet okays Population Policy
ISLAMABAD Paying tributes to the services rendered by Shaukat Tarin, earlier as an Advisor on Finance Affairs and later as ...
Tranquil supremacy
Parliament is supreme in a parliamentary form of government. But there is no supremacy sans responsibility, while the portrayal ...
Distrust complicates Pakistan-India river row
LAHORE (Reuters) - Distrust between India and Pakistan and a hawkish Indian mindset were complicating efforts to resolve disputes ...
US cites secret evidence
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prosecutors preparing to try a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman on charges he aided the 2008 Mumbai ...
Forces arrest 98 militants in operations
PESHAWAR (APP) - Security forces have apprehended 98 militants and 14 voluntarily surrendered to the law enforcers in three ...
Obama to consult Sarkozy on Pakistan, Afghanistan
PARIS/WASHINGTON (AFP) French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will make an official visit to ...
Five killed in IHK gunbattle
SRINAGAR (AFP) At least three Indian soldiers and two suspected freedom fighters have died in a major gunbattle in the ...
Three die as bus attacked
HANGU - At least three persons were killed and seven others got injured when unknown armed persons fired bullets at a passenger ...
Entertainment
Round-the-world girl sailor on home stretch
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian schoolgirl bidding to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world hit the home stretch ...
Jackson's paramedic tape revealed
A RECORDING that is believed to detail the moment paramedics broke the news of Michael Jacksons death has emerged. The tape is ...
Cheryl Cole splits from footballer Ashley Cole
POP star Cheryl Cole is separating from her husband, England and Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole. Cheryl asks the media to respect ...
Women are cleverer than men
THE battle of the sexes is finally over - and its bad news for the guys. According to the results of an unscientific experiment ...
Stewart hates giving speeches
KRISTEN Stewart finds it difficult to accept awards. The Twilight actress - who picked up the Orange Rising Star honour at the ...
Lindsay moving to Britain
TROUBLED actress Lindsay Lohan is planning to move to Britain. The Mean Girls star was recently in London hitting the clubs and ...
Islamabad
Independent candidate boycotts polls
RAWALPINDI An independent candidate alleged rigging during by-polls of NA-55 and boycotted the election on Wednesday. An ...
PPP voters remain confused
RAWALPINDI PPPs voters seemed confused and divided while using their right of vote in the NA-55 by-polls on Wednesday. City ...
2-week CNG workforce skill training starts
ISLAMABAD The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Jobs Project has launched the two-week CNG ...
Economic downturn needs creative solution: CEO ARL
RAWALPINDI Second Human Resource (HR) Conference with a theme of Fueling the Change was held under the auspices of Attock ...
VCs demand safe release of Dr Lutfullah
ISLAMABAD - The vice chancellors of the public sector universities have jointly demanded the safe release of Dr Lutfullah ...
Brunei National Day celebrated
ISLAMABAD - Pehin Col (Retd) Abdul Jalil Ahmed, High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam and his spouse Madam Hajah Umi Kalthum, ...
Karachi
RBS National T20 Cup from 28th
KARACHI The RBS National T20 Cricket Championship carrying over Rs. four million in prize money will be played here at the ...
NBP swamp HBL; Navy beat NWFP
KARACHI National Bank of Pakistan opened their campaign in KPT PFF Football cup in style when they thrashed Habib Bank 5-0 in ...
LBs in Sindh stand dissolved
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced dissolution of all local governments - City, Districts, ...
SHC replaces inquiry officer
KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday replaced DIG Bashir Ahmed Memon with Senior Superintendent Police SSP Niaz Khoso to ...
Private colleges minting money: Bhagwandas
KARACHI - Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan, Justice (retd) Rana Bhagwandas, has said that when he ...
Qaim assures ANP of cooperation
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has assured the Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh leadership of the government ...
Repatriation of fishermen held in India soon
KARACHI - Provincial minister for fisheries, Zahid Ali Bhurgari has assured the families of the Pakistani fishermen of the ...
Lyari gang war accused acquitted
KARACHI - Additional District Judge (East) on Wednesday acquitted an accused allegedly involved in Lyari gang war in police ...
Lahore
Pakistan officials not happy with security
LAHORE Pakistan hockey team management is not happy with the security arrangements made for the team during the World Cup in ...
Interference by politicians ruining cricket in Pakistan: Boycott
LAHORE The prime reason behind the sorry state of Pakistan cricket is that there are several politicians are at the helm of ...
LCCA need drastic changes: Nadeem
LAHORE Majority of test cricketers came from Lahore but they came into the limelight due to their own struggle and not because ...
Staff-agent mafia fleecing applicants
LAHORE - Due to poor management and security lapse the regional passport office located at Garden Town has been left at the mercy ...
Govt fails to plead farmers' case: 'Q'
LAHORE - Opposition leaders in Punjab Assembly have demanded of freezing the funds of the local bodies and the polls of local ...
Bureaucracy now occupies political slots
LAHORE As the penultimate nail in the coffin of Pervez Musharrafs much-trumpeted Local Government System, the Punjab government ...
Govt committed to eliminate poverty, unemployment: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that government is implementing a comprehensive strategy for the ...
Posting of graduates as food inspectors yet to be withdrawn
LAHORE It will take years to see when the government implements and translates its words into action rather than uttering mere ...
Pak nuclear power stronger than India's, says Nizami
LAHORE - Tayyaba Zia has achieved a fabulous place in journalism in a very short span of time. She is a veteran and seasoned ...
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