Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
The Nation in print for Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Front Page
Sh Rashid attacked; three killed
SHAHID RAO & ISRAR AHMED RAWALPINDI President Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rashid Ahmad escaped an attempt on life while his three bodyguards were killed when four assailants carrying sophisticated weapons attacked his election office here on Monday. Former minister and a candidate for NA-55 ...
Armed Forces to be fully equipped: PM
KARACHI Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan is a peace-loving country and does not follow any ...
Talks to focus on Kashmir, water: FM
MULTAN Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday Pakistans case on Kashmir and water was based on truth, and the ...
International
Pressure grows for Iran sanctions over N-plans
TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - International pressure for new sanctions against Iran grew on Monday after Tehran announced more moves to ...
Snow-locked US capital braces for new storm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US east coast braced Monday for a new storm after record snowfall left tens of thousands of people without ...
Sri Lanka election looser arrested
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankas defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka was arrested Monday, and will reportedly face charges ...
Investigators hunt cause of giant US blast
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (AFP) - A team of investigators searched Monday for the cause of a massive explosion that killed at least ...
UN urges Egypt, AL to press Israel on Gaza
CAIRO (AFP) - The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday urged Egypt and the Arab League to ...
Massive Israeli police raid in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AFP/Reuters) - Israeli security forces Monday raided a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, arresting ...
Top British cop jailed for attacking Iraqi
LONDON (AFP) - A British court jailed a senior Scotland Yard police officer for four years on Monday for attacking a man and ...
Al-Qaeda offshoot urges more US attacks
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based group that claimed a botched Christmas Day attack on a US ...
Shelling kills 9 in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An exchange of mortar shells between Somali government forces and rebels killed at least nine civilians and ...
The truth about US justice
Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr Aafia Siddiqui. The response from the people of ...
UN hails release of all child soldiers by Maoists in Nepal
UNITED NATIONS The final batch of the nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during Nepal's decade-long civil ...
Warne tells Aussies to take part in IPL
LONDON (AFP) Shane Warne has urged his fellow Australians to play in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) ...
Pakistan's Naseem becomes fastest woman of South Asia
DHAKA (APP) Pakistans Naseem Akhtar produced a historic and stunning show by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she ...
South Africa sniff victory after Steyn wrecks India
NAGPUR (India) (AFP) South Africa were eyeing victory after Dale Steyn picked a career-best 7-51 to trigger a dramatic India ...
Inter cruise as Roma home in on record
ROME (AFP) Inter Milan continued their inexorable march towards a fifth straight Serie A title as they crushed Cagliari 3-0 at ...
St Etienne end Monaco's undefeated run to edge nearer safety
PARIS (AFP) Former French giants St Etienne dealt Monacos hopes of a late run at the title perhaps a fatal blow on Sunday as ...
Drogba fires Chelsea to top
LONDON (AFP) John Terry ended a miserable week on a high as Chelsea striker Didier Drogba tormented Arsenal again to inspire his ...
Business
Soneri Bank enters race to buy RBS Pakistan
KARACHI - The race is on by the foreign and local investors to acquire business operations of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS ...
Etisalat to pay $800m to govt in a month
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Privatisation Senator Waqar Ahmad Khan said on Monday that dispute between Government and ...
SECP registers 254 cos in Jan
ISLAMABAD - Registration of new companies has shown a healthy increase of 34 percent in January last as compared to the preceding ...
Offshore drilling test result expected in a month: Qamar
KARACHI (APP) - Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar on Monday hoped to get off-shore drilling results ...
KSE gains 40 points; volume low after bombs
KARACHI - The stock market ended higher on Monday after positive remarks by the World Bank and Indias move for a resumption of ...
Rains good for crops
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Scattered rains occurred in the Barani areas would cast positive impact on crops resulting in more ...
Govt making 'efforts' to revive trade, industry
KARACHI (APP) - Federal Minister for Production and Industries Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani Monday said the government was very much ...
US to impart vocational training to disabled persons
LAHORE - The US Ambassador Anne W Patterson Monday handed over a cheque of $200,000 to Pervez Malik, President of the Lahore ...
Labour laws reforms workshop
LAHORE (APP) - A labour laws reforms workshop was held at Bakhtiar Labour Hall here Monday under the aegis of the Pakistan ...
CSF vows to continue assisting fisheries sector
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF), a joint initiative of the Ministry of Finance, and the United States ...
Politics
Zardari urges strong Sino-Pak ties
ISLAMABAD (APP) President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday called for taking Pak-China bilateral trade and commercial ties to new ...
Shahbaz flays attack, orders probe
LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday telephoned Chief of Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, and enquired ...
'N' behind attack on me: Rashid
RAWALPINDI Awami Muslim League (AML) President, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who narrowly escaped a deadly attack on Monday, alleged ...
Setback to ties if 26/11 recurs: India
NEW DELHI (Agencies) Days after India proposed Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan, Indian government sources on Monday ...
America for back channel diplomacy
UNITED States has dismissed Pakistani perceptions that it was propping India, saying that New Delhi did not need us for that ...
Qureshi, Kasuri not on same page
ISLAMABAD Who is at fault, the incumbent Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi or the former one Khurshid Kasuri? TheNation was ...
UNSC's surprise 'welcome' to London Conference
ISLAMABAD Amid hue and cry over the failure of London Conference without yielding any worthy outcome, the United Nations, in a ...
Govt not in haste to appoint SC judges: Khosa
ISLAMABAD (Online) Advisor to the Prime Minister on Information Technology, Latif Khosa said that the government was in no hurry ...
Pointing finger at someone wrong: Malik
ISLAMABAD Interior Minister Rehman Malik informed the National Assembly that Sheikh Rashid Ahmad came under the attack when he ...
Terror plot foiled in Lahore
LAHORE The CIA Police on Monday claimed that they have arrested five terrorists including a would-be suicide bomber in the ...
CJ directs Punjab PPO to take action
ISLAMABAD At a time when the kidnapping saga is rapidly gripping the entire province of Punjab, Chief Justice of Pakistan ...
Rains kill 11 in AJK, NWFP
MUZAFFARABAD At least six persons were killed and four wounded in the continuous rain on Monday, police said. A trader Nasir ...
Blackwater present in country: NA body
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) Secretary Interior Qamar Zaman again negated on Monday the presence of Blackwater, DynCorp or any other ...
Delhi Games force Pak diplomats to change homes
NEW DELHI (AFP) New Delhis preparations for the Commonwealth Games have forced a group of Pakistani diplomats to search for new ...
MNAs ask govt to ensure law, order
ISLAMABAD MQM legislator Syed Haidar Abbas Rizvi on Monday said that the government will have to create a sense of security ...
Pak Embassy did not pursue Aafia's case properly
ISLAMABAD The Governments lack of interest, despite its tall claims for early release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, can be judged from ...
'PPP-S ready to avenge if govt fails'
PESHAWAR - Expressing concerns over the growing incidents of target killings of Pashtuns in Karachi, Central President of ...
Plane skids off runway
PESHAWAR (APP) - An airline of a private company slipped into a muddy surface of the runway at Peshawar Airport during landing ...
17 Indian soldiers die in IHK avalanche
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Seventeen Indian soldiers were killed Monday in an avalanche that slammed into a group of 70 combat troops at a ...
'Iran starts making drones'
TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Monday opened two production lines for the manufacture of ...
Bailiff recovers three from police station
ISLAMABAD While acting on Lahore High Court Rawalpind Branchs directives, a bailiff raided Aabpara Police Station and recovered ...
Israeli police raid Palestinian refugee camp
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem erupted in violence on Monday after Israeli police ...
15 compounds cleared in S Waziristan
ISLAMABAD - Security forces have apprehended five terrorists and cleared 15 compounds, besides seizing a huge cache of arms and ...
Gas pipelines blown up
QUETTA - A gas pipeline has been blown up near Mach town, some 60 kilometres away from the provincial capital, on Monday ...
Journalists boycott NA session
ISLAMABAD - Journalists community, Monday, boycotted the proceedings of the National Assembly session against the brutality of ...
President, Raisani discuss Balochistan
ISLAMABAD - Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani, Monday, called on President Asif Ali Zardari and ...
MPs asked to focus on masses' issues
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that focused attention on the issues concerning the people would help ...
Two Nato troops killed
KABUL (AFP) - Two soldiers with Nato-led forces fighting Taliban-led insurgents were killed in a bomb explosion in southern ...
Man killed in bomb blast
JAND (APP) - A person was killed while six shops were partly damaged when a bomb exploded at Rangli bus stop about 10-km away ...
Taliban vow to defend Marjah
KANDAHAR (Agencies) - Taliban fighters have pledged to defend the town of Marjah from an imminent Nato offensive, saying that ...
Entertainment
Australian swallows 18 swords in one go
AN Australian street performer has set a Guinness World Record by swallowing 18 swords in one go. Australian Chayne Hultgren set ...
Winehouse a good cook too
AMY Winehouse is not only a good singer, shes also good in the kitchen. The Back to Black singers niece Dionne Bromfield says ...
Gordon Brown eats nine bananas a day
GORDON Brown is reportedly eating up to nine bananas a day as part of a pre-election health drive. The Prime Ministers wife Sarah ...
Emlly Deschanel in no rush to marry
EMILY Deschanel insists shes in no rush to get married. The Bones actress, 33, says she doesnt feel pressured into a finding a ...
You really can be bored to death, study shows
IT really is possible to be bored to death, scientists have found, after research showed those who live tedious lives are twice ...
Sarkozy's father paints Carla Bruni
PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy father Pal is to exhibit surrealist paintings of his son and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at a Paris gallery in ...
Islamabad
NUML closed as deadlock persists
ISLAMABAD After the deadlock between the students, teaching faculty and the administration of National University of Modern ...
TheNation staffer gets 1st prize
ISLAMABAD To recognise journalists efforts for creating awareness among masses on health issues TheNetwork for Consumer ...
Speakers urge regional water management policy
ISLAMABAD Speakers at a seminar titled Water conflict in South Asia and international treaties on environment - analyses and way ...
Tribute paid to Ajmal Khattak
RAWALPINDI A reference was organised by Awami Party Pakistan (APP) on Monday held here at Dhoke Hassu to pay tributes to veteran ...
'Govt, opposition responsible for Aafia's plight'
ISLAMABAD Gen (R) Hamid Gul has said that owing to secret agreements between the political parties and the US, both the ...
NA body concerned over CAA's 'poor output'
ISLAMABAD (Online) National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence has expressed concerns over unsatisfactory performance of ...
Pakistan to send four players for KL Bowling C'ship
ISLAMABAD President Pakistan Tenpin Bowling Federation (PTBF) Enver Baig said on Monday that four national players would take ...
Karachi
Govt lawmakers defend POL price-hike
KARACHI - The members of the ruling PPP justified the recent hike in petroleum products and said that it was an international ...
New BSEK admin vows to end corruption
KARACHI - Board of Secondary Education Karachis (BSEK) new administration has vowed to root out corruption from the institute. ...
Court frames charges against ex-envoy
KARACHI - Accountability Court Karachi on Monday framed charges against Pakistan Ambassador to Iran, MB Abbasi, in a corruption ...
Widening of tax net need of the hour
KARACHI - The housing and construction sector is the backbone of the countrys economy and the government will leave no stone ...
Malik challenged over Blackwater presence
KARACHI - Politicians on Monday challenged Interior Minister Rehman Malik for debate on Blackwater existence. Addressing a rally ...
Soft drinks increase cancer risk
KARACHI (PPI) - Consuming sugary soft drinks can dramatically increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, a new research has ...
Cricket community outraged at media campaign against PCB
KARACHI Former first class and club cricketers have flayed criticism in electronic and other media who were engaged in sustained ...
Lahore
Police operating private torture cells
LAHORE - More than 150 private torture cells are operating under the nose of top cops in the Punjab Capital, where the police ...
1.5 marla turns into 6 kanals
LAHORE-The Punjab Assembly was on Monday told about just one of the 'miracles of Ghhoggi Shah, believed to be a saint, who ...
Low-cost housing schemes for shelterless soon: CM
LAHORE The government has decided in principle to launch a low-cost housing scheme for the shelterless people and the project ...
Govt fails in getting Bill passed from PA
LAHORE - Seeing the inability of the Treasury to keep the quorum intact twice, Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan ...
2 professors lock horns over posting
LAHORE - A junior most professor falling on number 120 in seniority has been appointed as principal of the Post-Graduate Medical ...
Regional peace sans expulsion of foreign forces impossible
LAHORE - Iranian Consul General Saeed Kharazi has stated that the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is need of hour, which ...
Pakistan 'must move on' after Australia: Former captain
LAHORE Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram will look into the causes of Pakistan teams bad performance in Australia in place of ...
Three more matches decided
Lahore First match abandoned between Ali Garh Seniors and Sayid Paper Stags in Group-G in the 12th edition of National Seniors ...
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