Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
- Terror trial of accused Bali bomber starts Monday
The Nation in print for Sunday, February 07, 2010
Front Page
Karachi remains shut to mourn and condemn bomb blasts
KARACHI - Thousands of people on Saturday attended the funeral of 26 victims of Fridays twin bombings here amid tight security, as the death toll soared to 33 while police registered cases against unknown terrorists in two police stations. Thousands of mourners, beating their chests and chanting ...
Forces seize control of Damadola
PESHAWAR (Agencies) - Security forces have cleared terrorists stronghold Damadola as they were using this area as a base for ...
3 security men among 10 injured in Quetta blast
QUETTA Ten persons including three security forces personnel were injured in a bomb blast in Quetta on Saturday. Official ...
International
Hamas wants 'Zionist war criminals' judged by ICC
GAZA CITY (AFP/Reuters) - Hamas wants what it calls Zionist war criminals brought before the International Criminal Court over ...
Hamas meeting possible only after accord, says Abbas
CAIRO (AFP/Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday that his secular Fatah movement would meet Hamas only ...
West duping Iran over nuclear deal: Tehran
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani lashed out at the West on Saturday for trying to dupe Iran with a proposed ...
Russian threat assessment 'surprises' Nato Chief
MUNICH, Germany, (Reuters/AFP) - Nato said on Saturday a new Russian military doctrine identifying Nato expansion as a threat did ...
UN Security Council hails new plans for Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council has welcomed the results of the London conference on Afghanistan, which pledged new funds ...
'Snowmageddon' paralyses US east coast, two dead
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A huge blizzard dumped a blanket of thick snow over the US east coast Saturday, paralysing the region and ...
Sanctions looming for Tehran: US advisor
MUNICH (Reuters/AFP) - Iran must satisfy the demands of the international community over its nuclear programme or face fresh ...
US mily contractor abducted in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A Shia group on Saturday posted an Internet video showing a hostage in US military uniform who appears to be a ...
Americans held in Haiti denied conditional release
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP/Reuters) - Ten American Christians charged in Haiti with child kidnapping and conspiracy were denied ...
French aid worker released 3 months after Chad kidnap
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - French aid worker Laurent Maurice, who was kidnapped in Chad last year, was released in good health on ...
Qasim's fellow selectors refuse to resign
MUMBAI Though efforts were being made to persuade Iqbal Qasim to withdraw his resignation as national selection committee ...
Kallis, Amla thrash Indian bowlers
NAGPUR (India) (AFP) Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla slammed unbeaten centuries to help South Africa seize the momentum on the ...
Pakistan subdue India in handball final
DHAKA (APP) Pakistan showed their prowess in the newly introduced handball event of the 11th South Asian Games when they subdued ...
Capello sack John Terry as England captain
LONDON (AFP) John Terry was sacked as England captain by head coach Fabio Capello Friday, just four months before the World Cup, ...
Business
Pakistan on right track: WB
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The World Bank has committed up to $1.3 billion for Pakistan in the 2009/10 fiscal year and violence in the ...
Aptma demands free market mechanism for textile chain
KARACHI - All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Anwar Ahmed Tata has reiterated his stand on free market ...
Hyundai group to invest in 50MW wind power project
ISLAMABAD (APP) Pakistan and a Korean consortium of Hyundai have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the ...
RCCI for promoting non-traditional items
RAWALPINDI (APP) - President of Rawlpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Kashif Shabbir on Saturday said it was need of ...
Pak GDP growth likely to reach 4pc in FY11
KARACHI - As economy has started rebounding, the countrys GDP growth is anticipated to increase to 4 per cent in FY11 as compared ...
Obama urges Congress to back small business plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday appealed to fellow Democrats and rival Republicans to back a plan to ...
PTCL to bridge management communication gap
KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has relegated the implemented Information System throughout the ...
Commodity prices slump on debt woes
LONDON (AFP) - Commodity prices slumped this week as confidence in the global economy was shaken by growing fears about soaring ...
Chinese sales boost luxury goods market
PARIS (AFP) - Despite the economic crisis, 2009 ended better than it began for the French luxury goods sector, thanks largely to ...
Mobilink, P&G extensive CSR initiatives
LAHORE - Mobilink extensively undertook a number of noteworthy CSR initiatives. Some of these included; the Mobilink Camp for ...
Politics
Talibanisation of Karachi be stopped, says MQM
KARACHI Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has demanded of the government to take serious steps to stop Talibanisation of the City ...
ADB concerns on RPPs not conveyed to Cabinet
ISLAMABAD Ministry of Water and Power, in its presentation to the Cabinet meeting held on January 29, about the ADB report on ...
Federation files fresh plea to review NRO verdict
ISLAMABAD The government has submitted an amended plea clubbing the fresh review petition with the one earlier filed in the ...
Pakistan to pursue Aafia case afresh
ISLAMABAD After directions of President Asif Ali Zardari and growing criticism of the masses, the Foreign Office is said to have ...
Pakistani goes on hunger strike in US
NEW YORK - Outraged by the unjust conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui on attempted murder charges, a young Pakistani man has gone on ...
No talks planned: Jamaat
LAHORE Pakistans Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah has said that Indian water delegation has arrived in the country ...
India starts Swalkot dam on Chenab
ISLAMABAD India has started construction of Swalkot dam at the cost of $2 billion on the Chenab river. According to an ...
Blackwater-type US security contractor in NWFP: Bilour
LOWER DIR (Agencies) - Senior NWFP Minister Bashir Bilour has confirmed the presence of Blackwater in the province and has said ...
Punishment for Blackwater guards in Iraq demanded
WASHINGTON The Pentagon has acknowledged that an American contractor for the Defence Department is missing in Baghdad, saying ...
Blackwater, RAW behind Karachi killings: JI
PESHAWAR - Holding both 'Blackwater and RAW responsible for the target killings in Karachi, Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Amir, Sirajul ...
Old enmity leaves 15 dead in Gujrat
GUJRAT (Online) - At least 15 people were killed Saturday in an exchange of fire between two groups in Sarya, a village of ...
Carrot and stick policy not to work in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD Recent developments implying mega shift in the US, Afghan policy aiming at luring Taliban are termed by some ...
Pak-India ties will impact Afghanistan: FO
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Revival of talks and solution of Kashmir, water dispute and other issues between India and Pakistan will ...
Talks offer a 'calculated initiative': Delhi
INDIA on Saturday said its proposal to have Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan was a calculated initiative to 'unlock ...
Iran opens 2 new missile plants
TEHRAN (AFP) - Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi opened two new missile production plants on Saturday, just three days after Iran ...
Zardari for mobilising PPP cadres
ISLAMABAD (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday called for mobilising party cadres in Hazara so as to make the PPP the ...
Kashmiris protest in front of UN
UNITED NATIONS - Braving bitterly cold weather, a large number of Kashmiris Monday staged a rally in front of the UN building in ...
'Blood for blood' chants mark funeral in IHK
SRINAGAR (Agencies) - Thousands of people chanted Blood for blood and We want freedom at a funeral Saturday for the second ...
Fazl urges President to halt fata operation
ISLAMABAD - Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman during his meeting with President Asif Ali ...
Lehri new Chief Secy Balochistan
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday appointed Ahmad Bakhsh Lehri as Chief Secretary to ...
Education, health top priority, says PM
LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that under the new health policy 'Health for All it is governments top ...
March 23 parade cancelled
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Pakistan Day parade, the biggest event of March 23, has been cancelled. Sources told this news agency that ...
Malik orders FIR in missing persons case
ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has directed the respective police stations to register the FIRs of missing persons ...
Nato container hit by bomb
QUETTA - The Frontier Corps (FC) arrested a suspected miscreant and recovered explosive material from his possession in Machh on ...
Entertainment
Arctic melt to cost up to $24 trillion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to ...
Dita Von Teese spent $70k on dress
DITA Von Teese once spent $70,000 on a dress. The burlesque dancer admits she gets carried away when it comes to buying clothes ...
Swimming with sharks without any protective gear
YOUd be forgiven for thinking that when diving with sharks wearing full protection gear was a given. But two freedivers pictured ...
Emily Blunt used to think acting was silly
EMILY Blunt says she almost quit acting. The Devil Wears Prada star admits she used to think she had chosen a silly job and often ...
Cat owners 'more educated than dog owners'
CATS have long been thought to be cleverer than dogs - and now it seems the same is true of their owners. People with cats are ...
Meet Oscar, the cat who knows too much...
WHEN a nursing home doctor heard that the resident tabby could sense when a patient was about to die, he was sceptical. But a ...
Islamabad
Naqvi raps govt for failure to curb terror
KARACHI - Chief of the Shiite Ulema Council Pakistan Sindh, Allama Sajid Naqvi, declaring the Chehlum blasts as a sequence of the ...
Judicial inquiry into Karachi carnage demanded
ISLAMABAD While demanding formation of a judicial inquiry commission to probe into February 5 carnage, President Shia Ulema ...
Varsities warn of countrywide protest
ISLAMABAD Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association has demanded immediate removal of Brig (R) ...
CDA's sewerage treatment plant incurring heavy loss
ISLAMABAD - The Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) installed in Sector I-9 is inflicting millions of rupees loss on the CDAs kitty, ...
PTI protest for Aafia's release continues
ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) has urged the incumbent government to make all out efforts for early release of Dr Aafia ...
Auto workshops in residential areas a nuisance
ISLAMABAD (APP) The auto workshops in different parts of the capital are creating huge problems for the residents, motorists and ...
Youth in grip of Sheesha smoking
ISLAMABAD (APP) Sheesha smoking addiction is spreading fast among youth in capital infecting the college and university students ...
Chanar Heroes in National Wheelchair Cricket final
ISLAMABAD Chanar Heroes Peshawar (CHP) moved into the final of the National Wheelchair Users Cricket Tournament by beating Bolan ...
Karachi
Assembly adjourned in mourning
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Saturday offered fateha for those who lost their lives in Fridays twin bomb blasts in Karachi and ...
Terrorists remind of Karbala tragedy: Altaf
KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said that terrorists have reminded us of the brutalities of the Yazidi army in the tragic ...
Direction for submitting challan of accused
KARACHI - Sindh High Courts Administrative Judge of Anti Terrorist Court on Saturday directed the police to submit challan ...
Pakistani student tops in world maths exam
KARACHI - A student of Dawood Public School, Maliha Arif, has clinched the top position in the world in Additional Mathematics in ...
Going somewhere, but getting nowhere
For the last sixty-four years, this unfortunate Titanic, with different captains at the helm, has been buffeted from one shore to ...
Sara Mahboob powers to victory in final
KARACHI Super-fit Sara Mahboob clinched the singles crown of the HBL Subh-e-Nau National Ladies Tennis overpowering an equally ...
Lahore
Protests if govt fails to implement SC decision: PTI
LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that the rulers lacked capacity to take the country out of ...
Curtail non-development expenditures: Shahbaz
LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that for the development projects government land should be ...
Govt agrees to raise fares; transporters end strike
LAHORE - Urban transporters on Saturday night called off wheel-jam strike after the Punjab government accepted their main demand ...
'Global surveys be filtered before publishing'
LAHORE - Global survey reports mostly depict gloomy picture of Pakistan and create a sense of anxiety in the minds of people ...
Govt working on different formulae
LAHORE - Issue of Indias involvement in Balochistan will be raised in the upcoming talks between Pakistan and India, said Mian ...
Fruit, vegetables reduce risk of cancer
LAHORE - Eating balanced diet rich in fruit and vegetables plays an important part in reducing the risk of many types of cancer, ...
President has not asked for Butt's replacement: Jakhrani
LAHORE Pakistan Federal minister for sports Ijaz Hussain Jakhrani on Saturday dismissed reports that President Asif Ali Zardari ...
Malik urges teammates to learn from disaster Down Under
LAHORE Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik believes that his team must learn from its disastrous tour of Australia, particularly ...
Zeeshan to lead hockey team in World Cup
LAHORE Zeeshan Ashraf will lead Pakistan team in the Hockey World Cup as the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) named quad on ...
Butt wants Mani in PCB governing board
LAHORE Former ICC president and technocrat Ehsan Manis name is doing the rounds for the post of member in Pakistan Cricket ...
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