Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
The Nation in print for Friday, January 30, 2009
Front Page
Pakistan gets support against drone attacks
DAVOS (Agencies) - President Barack Obama should deepen US engagement in Afghanistan but show more restraint in Pakistan, ministers said Thursday as the volatile region took centre stage in Davos. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told delegates that US drone attacks on Pakistani territory were ...
Reductions in spending help contain deficit
ISLAMABAD - Major cuts in the development spending and oil subsidies proved helpful in keeping the fiscal deficit at around 1.9 ...
Three Indian spies arrested in Lahore
LAHORE-City police with the cooperation of intelligence agencies has foiled a deadly plan to carry out large-scale bloodshed ...
High-profile terror network busted
RAWALPINDI " City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Rao Muhammad Iqbal has claimed to have foiled a terrorism plot of destroying ...
International
Federer into Australian Open final
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Switzerland's Roger Federer blasted Andy Roddick off-court in another fearsome display to reach the Australian ...
England not risking Flintoff
BASSETERRE (St Kitts) (AFP) - England have chosen caution ahead of adventure and sidelined Andrew Flintoff for their final tour ...
Safina, Serena set for title, No.1 ranking battle
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Serena Williams will gun for her 10th Grand Slam title and the world number one ranking against Dinara Safina ...
Serena ready for perfect 10
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Serena Williams shook off form worries to storm into the Australian Open final Thursday and immediately ...
US Gen orders troops to kill all Afghan opium dealers
BERLIN (Agencies) The approach to combating the drug mafia in Afghanistan has spurred an open rift inside Nato. According to ...
Nato chief launches probe
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer launched Thursday an inquiry into the "unacceptable" leaking of ...
Wen, Putin blame 'blind pursuit of profit' for crisis
DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) - Chinese and Russian leaders Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin hit out at US capitalist excesses for ...
Nine countries sign deal to fight Somali piracy
DJIBOUTI (AFP) - Nine countries from the region most affected by Somali piracy on Thursday signed a deal enhancing cooperation in ...
Pakistani attendant at gas station near N.Y. shot to death
NEW YORK - A Pakistani man attending a gas station in Staten Island, a borough of New York City, was shot in the back and killed ...
Ban to visit Pakistan on Feb. 4: spokesperson
UNITED NATIONS - The UNited Nations on Thursday confirmed that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pay a day-long visit to ...
US House passes Obama's economic stimulus plan
WASHINGTON - The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved an 819-billion-dollar economic stimulus ...
US says regional approach critical to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The top US military officer India has called for a regional approach to deal with the Afghan war involving not only ...
I wish I was 10 years older: Scarlett
ACTRESS Scarlett Johansson wishes she was 10 years older and claims she doesn't "feel adult" yet. The 24-year-old Hollywood star ...
Business
Reserves mount to 5-month imports bill
KARACHI - The foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan have increased almost equal to five months imports bill. At present, the ...
KSE witnesses bull-run on third consecutive day
LAHORE - Thursday was the third consecutive day in Karachi Stock Exchange when bullish activities remained intact and confident ...
Recession takes toll on hotel industry
KARACHI - The revenue growth in the hotel industry has steeply dropped by 45 percent in the backdrop of global recession and ...
EDB in full grip of multinational cos' reps
LAHORE - The Engineering Development Board (EDB), which was established with a view to promote manufacturing at local level with ...
Centre and Punjab to dispatch wheat to avert crisis in Sindh
KARACHI - The federal government has agreed to provide wheat to Sindh government to avert the anticipated crisis in the month of ...
95 per cent remittances go to family maintenance
KARACHI - President National Bank of Pakistan Syed Ali Raza has disclosed that 95 per cent of the total remittances go to the ...
Gas supply restored
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The gas supply to partially closed Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations and industrial units falling in the ...
Efforts on to get int'l market access via NWFP, Balochistan
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Economic Affairs, Shaukat Tarin here Thursday said that government ...
Chawla declared unopposed President FPCCI
LAHORE (APP) - Sultan Chawla,presidential candidate of Businessmen Panel on Thursday was declared unopposed President along with ...
HP's power of print to achieve business productivity
LAHORE - The Hewlett-Packard (HP) has outlined strategies to help businesses extend the power of print to achieve business ...
Politics
Islamabad to meet initial targets: IMF
WASHINGTON - Pakistan has met its targets under its 23-month International Monetary Fund funding programme, a spokesman of the ...
Draft bill to scrap NAB finalised
ISLAMABAD " Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan said on Thursday that the inter-ministerial committee has ...
Restore Army's credibility, Lala urges COAS
Swat-based veteran politician Afzal Khan Lala has urged Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to take concrete steps ...
EU anti-terror czar urges help for Pak justice system
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union's anti-terror czar urged EU nations Thursday to help bolster Pakistan's police force and ...
Turkish PM spars with Israeli President
DAVOS (Agencies) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday stormed out of an angry debate at the Davos forum on ...
Barack Obama weighs 'tough choices' on Iraq, Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - US President Barrack Osama said Wednesday he is going to make some tough choices on Iraq and Afghanistan, as the ...
King of Jordan invites Zardari to WEF
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that Pakistan was looking forward to further boosting bilateral relations ...
Indian Muslims protest 'torture'
INDIAN Muslims are holding a mass demonstration in Delhi to protest against alleged harassment of Muslims by security forces, ...
Pak amongst top 5 highest SMS traffic
LAHORE - Pakistan is among the top five countries with the highest Short Message Service (SMS) traffic processed over the festive ...
Entertainment
Is Michelle Obama pregnant?
THE celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has reported a 'rumour' that Michelle Obama is pregnant. In a posting on perezhilton.com he ...
400-year-old astonishing mummies
WITH her crumpled yellow hair bow and grubby face, pretty little Rosalina looks as though she's just flaked out for a nap after a ...
'Lara' set for big-screen return
Lara Croft is set to return in a new film based on the Tomb Raider computer game, it has been reported. According to the ...
Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?
AS technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual ...
All-round flu vaccine developed
TOKYO (AFP) - Researchers in Japan said Thursday they had developed a flu vaccine that works against multiple viruses and could ...
Islamabad
Budget should be 7pc of GDP by 2015
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Education Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani has said that his ministry has set the target of education ...
Japan to provide US $ 4.7m for polio eradication in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - As a part of it continuous financial support to take forward the National Polio Eradication Programme in Pakistan, ...
Pakistan eager to boost ties with Jordan, says Zardari
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that Pakistan was looking forward to further boosting bilateral relations ...
814 posts lying vacant in CDA
ISLAMABAD (Online)- Round about 814 different Posts from BPS-1 to BPS-19 are lying vacant in Capital Development Authority (CDA). ...
'PML-N to make efforts for release of missing persons'
ISLAMABAD - Hanif Abbasi, PML-N MNA, has assured the children of the missing persons that his party would make efforts for the ...
Call for awareness on child protection rights
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education, Samina Khalid Ghurki has called for creating ...
Karachi
Participating teams share honours at inter varsity sports
KARACHI - Institute of Business and Management sponsored Inter-university Sports concluded at organisers campus at Korangi here ...
The disaster called KU Girls' Hostel
KARACHI - Students residing in the girls' hostel at Karachi University (KU) have strongly criticised the hostel's provost Dr ...
No chance of Governor's rule in Punjab: Taseer
KARACHI - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has strongly dismissed the rumours, being spread by some elements, that there were ...
2 killed in City; three robbers held
KARACHI - Crime Investigation Department has arrested three robbers here on Thursday. According to details, SSP CID Fayyaz Khan ...
Finger print branch to be reactivated
Karachi - IGP Sindh Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak, Thursday chaired a high level meeting at his office and emphasized to ...
MQM new set-up on the cards
KARACHI - The organisational set up of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Rabita Committe Pakistan is likely to be announced in a few days ...
Navy to get early warning aircraft, UAVs
KARACHI - Pakistan Navy will shortly acquire Airborne Early Warning AEW aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs to further ...
Lahore
SSG leads National Hockey Championship points table
LAHORE - Sui Southern Gas Pipelines Limited despite having a drawn game against Wapda is leading the points table of the 56th ...
Pakistan wants clear ICC policy on rebel ICL
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board will seek clarification on the status of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) during the ...
Qasim wants more austro turfs at all grounds
LAHORE - President Pakistan Hockey Federation Qasim Zia has urged the need of installing austro turf at all the places where ...
PCB to resist move to reverse Oval Test result
LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt will resist any move to once again reverse the result of the infamous Oval ...
ICC reduces number of appeals to two
LAHORE - In a bid to prevent "frivolous challenges" by players, the International Cricket Council will reduce the number of ...
Khosa candidate suffers defeat
LAHORE - Asif Ali Malik of pro-movement, Hamid Khan Group, Thursday won as Vice Chairman of Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) defeating a ...
Nawaz hopes Obama admin resolve Kashmir problem
LAHORE - A delegation of Kashmiri leaders led by former Chairman Hurriyat Conference Adul Ghani Bhatt Thursday called on PML-N ...
Lawyers to take Iftikhar to SC on March 9: Kurd
LAHORE - President Supreme Court Bar Association, Ali Ahmad Kurd has vowed that flood of million of people in Islamabad would ...
Government focussing on infrastructure development
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said that special attention is being paid to infrastructure development for ...
PA Secy directed to disclose objections against Saba
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the secretary Punjab Assembly to disclose before court in writing all ...
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