Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- 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
The Nation in print for Sunday, January 25, 2009
Front Page
Pakistan asks US to reverse policy
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Saturday lodged strong protest with the United States against the drone attacks saying the missile strikes on tribal areas constituted infringement of Pakistan's sovereignty. President Asif Ali Zardari, in meeting here with US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson, ...
105 houses, shops razed
MOHMAND AGENCY - The security forces on Saturday demolished at least 100 houses and five shops here in different areas and ...
PPP-'N' detente to last till Senate elections
ISLAMABAD-The unannounced detente reached between Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), following Pujab ...
Forces take control of schools in Swat
PESHAWAR- Security forces on Saturday eventually took control of schools and historical Jehanzeb Government College in Mingora ...
US-led forces kill 15 Afghans
KABUL (AFP) - US-led coalition forces Saturday said they killed 15 armed militants in eastern Afghanistan, but local legislators ...
India signs civil nuclear accord with Kazakhstan
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - India on Saturday signed a civil nuclear pact with Kazakhstan under which the uranium-rich Central Asian ...
International
An abject surrender indeed
Pakistan team's abilities, technique and planning were exposed to the hilt by a professional and united Sri Lankan team in front ...
Serena shakes off rust as Dementieva squeaks through
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Favourite Serena Williams complained she was "rusty" heading into the Australian Open fourth round Saturday but ...
BBC under fire over refusal to show Gaza charity appeal
LONDON - The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) on Saturday termed the BBC decision to disallow an appeal by the Disasters Emergency ...
Obama overturns ban on overseas abortion funding
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama has overturned what he described as an "unwarranted" 8-year ban on US govt funding for ...
Suicide car bomb, gunfight kill 22 civilians in Somalia
MOGADISHU (AFP) - At least 22 civilians were killed Saturday in Mogadishu by a suicide car bomb targeting African Union ...
Lanka seizes Tiger camps
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces captured two Tamil Tiger guerrilla camps after heavy fighting in the island's ...
UN fears Gaza anger could fuel extremism
UNITED NATIONS - Focusing attention on the growing anger in Gaza over the recent Israeli military offensive that inflicted death, ...
Illegal migrants break out of Italian centre
ROME (AFP) - Hundreds of illegal immigrants broke out of their holding centre and staged a dramatic protest against their plight ...
Ban and Obama discuss Mideast on telephone
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received a call from US President Barack Obama Friday afternoon and the two ...
Vatican slams US President over allowing funding
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Senior Vatican officials weighed into US President Barack Obama Saturday for overturning a ban on state ...
Business
Private sector credit off-take falls by 34pc
KARACHI - The growth in private sector credit off-take by the schedule banks has steeply dropped by 34 per cent during ...
Resource of 100,000MW solar energy estimated in Pakistan
LAHORE - The solar energy resource has been calculated at 800 million megawatt while its estimation for our country is about ...
Textile exports decline by 14 per cent in December
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Export of textile products from the country, during December 2008 has witnessed downward trend by 14.05 percent ...
Foreign selling pressure pushes market further down
LAHORE - Foreign selling pressure continued to haunt the equity market during the outgoing week as the benchmark KSE-100 Index ...
Senate body to review delay in IPI project
ISLAMABAD (APP) - A sub-committee of Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources will review and discuss the ...
Loadshedding duration for industry reduced from today
ISLAMABAD - The government has decided to curtail electricity loadshedding time period for the industrial sector of Pakistan ...
'Mobilink Hunt for Heroes' attracts over 40,000 enthusiasts
LAHORE - Mobilink, the country's market leader in cellular communication, initiated 'Mobilink Hunt for Heroes' in Sep, 2007, in ...
Rs520 billion to be spent on NTC by 2012 to boost trade
ISLAMABAD (APP) - For boosting trade activities in the country and enhancing exports the government has planned to spend Rs 520 ...
'No waiver from IMF sought'
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Finance has clarified that the Government of Pakistan neither intends nor does it need to seek any ...
Foreign investors pull $7.133 million from KSE
KARACHI (APP) - Foreign investors have pulled out $ 7.133 million from stock market during third week of January 2009, SBP report ...
Politics
Gaza bride marries to raise 'fighters'
GAZA CITY (AFP) - There was no party, no celebrations when 22-year-old Aida al-Qaddumi finally got married this week. There were ...
Zardari for resolving Mangla Dam affectees settlement issue
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday asked the government to sort out issues relating to the settlement of Mangla Dam ...
President directs for treating poor boy at govt expenses
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the concerned authorities to treat a 10-year old poor boy, Habibullah, who is ...
Modi's Kasab remark sparks controversy
AHMEDABAD (Agencies) - Indian Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday came in for a sharp criticism from BJP and ...
PM hints at change in law to prosecute militants
LONDON (APP) - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan is prepared to amend laws in the wake of the Mumbai attacks to ...
Meeting with President to resolve issues, says Shahbaz
LAHORE - PML-N President and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has termed his meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari positive ...
UN reopens Gaza schools
BEIT LAHIYA (AFP) - Some 200,000 Gaza children returned to school on Saturday for the first time since Israel's offensive, many ...
US airstrikes offer sign of Obama's Pakistan policy: media reports
WASHINGTON - Two U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected militant hideouts in Pakistan's tribal areas ...
Musharraf speaks out against US strikes
NEW YORK - Former President Pervez Musharraf Friday spoke out against strikes by U.S. drones against militants in Pakistan's ...
Entertainment
New way to produce hydrogen discovered
SCIENTISTS at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by ...
Britannica reaches out to the web
THE Encyclopaedia Britannica has unveiled a plan to let readers help keep the reference work up to date. Under the plan, readers ...
Obama's green agenda could lead world not only US
GENEVA (AFP) - International environmental groups have praised evidence of swift change by US President Barack Obama in his ...
Eco-swimmer's Amazon odyssey delights Sundance
PARK CITY (Utah)(AFP) - Crocodiles, piranhas and anacondas didn't deter a 54-year-old man from completing an epic swim of the ...
Absolute treasure of a little boy
IT was more than 70 years ago when young Dewi Rowlands began packing his favourite toys away. Perhaps, with war clouds gathering ...
One whale survives mass Australian beaching
SYDNEY (AFP) - Just one sperm whale from a group of almost 50 that beached en masse in Australia's south has survived, and ...
Islamabad
Housing societies asked to expedite uplift work
ISLAMABAD (APP)- The Sub-Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice, Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs has ...
Residents bemoan low gas pressure
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The residents of the twin cities particularly G-6, G-7 sectors, Professor Colony, Dr Qadeer Road, Sadiqabad ...
Pakistan, Iran to benefit each other's research, says VC AIOU
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Piyam Nu University (PNU) of Iran would benefit with each other's ...
Journalist shot dead
RAWALPINDI - A Senior journalist Aamir Vakeel was shot dead by some unknown persons near Committee Chowk in the jurisdiction of ...
'National security multifaceted task, no longer military pursuit alone'
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman Senate Mohammedmian Soomro Saturday said the national security has become a multifaceted undertaking; ...
CT scan machine at PIMS to be functional soon
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Saturday said that hospital's CT scan will be functional soon ...
Karachi
SFA gives three days to Nasir to explain his behaviour
KARACHI - The Sindh Football Association has given Nasir Karim, a local football official, three days to explain his behaviour or ...
KESC gets nod to raise tariff by 20pc
KARACHI - NEPRA has allowed the KESC to increase the power tariff up to 20 per cent. The new tariff hike would be Rs1.84 per Kwh. ...
First Pakistan youth congress from 27th
KARACHI - The "First Pakistan Youth Congress" of Life Skills Education and Drug Abuse Prevention will begin here from January ...
7th Kara Film Fest from February 4
KARACHI - Kara Film Festival is going to be held on the 4th of Feb 2009 in the metropolitan after lapse of two years. It is ...
Non-bailable warrants of Ghaffar Zikri, 5 others issued
KARACHI (PPI) - Additional District & Sessions Judge (South), Karachi, Sultan Muhammad Awan Saturday issued non-bailable warrants ...
Child Protection Bill soon: Gabol
Karachi (PPI) - Provincial Minister for Human Rights Ms Nadia Gabol Saturday said legislation of Child Protection Bill would be ...
Korean group offers $3b for energy projects
KARACHI - Bin Dean Korean group has offered to invest 3 billion dollars in various coal mining and energy projects enunciated in ...
Lahore
Pakistan crash to worst ever home defeat
LAHORE - Pakistan crashed to their heaviest defeat at home ground - by 234 runs - against Sri Lanka to lose the three-match ODI ...
Addresses the chronic weaknesses
LAHORE - Asian Bradman Zaheer Abbas has pointed out that losing the series was not an issue here but the main problem required to ...
Malik blames weather
LAHORE - Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik has blamed the weather for defeat against Sri Lanka on Saturday. Addressing a post match ...
Murali crosses 500-wicket mark
LAHORE - World's leading Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan on Saturday crossed the 500-wicket mark in the shorter version of ...
We did not expect such a victory
LAHORE - Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene was not expecting such an easy win against Pakistan in the final one-day of the ...
Inzamam blames Yousuf absence for humiliating defeat
LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq believes Pakistan paid the price for excluding premier batsman Mohammad Yousuf ...
Asif blames eye drop for high Nandrolone level
LAHORE - Tainted Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif Saturday recorded his statement before the Indian Premier League's Drug Tribunal in ...
Justice Ch gets thunderous welcome in City
LAHORE-Thousands of lawyers, political workers and representatives of the civil society accorded a tumultuous reception to ...
ASF officials baton-charge lawyers, political activists
LAHORE - Airport Security Force (ASF) officials on Saturday wielded to batons on the lawyers and political activists when they ...
PML-N takes lead in welcoming Iftikhar
LAHORE - PML-N has accorded rousing welcome to deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on his ...
Govt has clear stance over 17th Amendment
LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday has said that PPP-led government has very clear stance over 17th ...
PPP promoting nepotism: 'N'
LAHORE - PML-N Punjab Vice President and MNA Malik Muhammad Afzal Khokhar has accused PPP of shattering the virtues of merit by ...
No conflict if power-sharing formula actualised: Babar
LAHORE - Maintaining that being a most conscientious political strength in the country having shown responsible political ...
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