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 Thursday, January 07, 2010
Front Page
Army barrack in AJK bombed; 4 troops die
MIRPUR A suicide bomber killed four soldiers and wounded 11 others Wednesday at a military base in Tarar Khal town of Sudhanoti district in Rawalakot sector, police said. The attacker detonated his explosives outside barracks in Tarar Khal, southeast of Muzaffarabad. The explosion of high ...
'Gestapo-like situation prevailing in country'
ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that top military officials and other influential people have been involved in ...
Cabinet orders stability in atta, sugar prices
ISLAMABAD Federal Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval to regularise over 4,000 employees of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) who ...
International
Clumsy, irresponsible players throw match away
SYDNEY (Agencies) There was a time yesterday when Australia looked capable of winning this match. By stumps, however, it seemed ...
Strauss, Cook survive initial onslaught
CAPE TOWN (AFP) Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook survived some hostile bowling from South Africas new ball bowlers on the fourth ...
Australia better than India: Intikhab
MUMBAI Pakistan would have beaten Australia in Australia for the first time in 15 years in a Test match had they not committed ...
Perfect starts for Nadal, Federer
DOHA (AFP) Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal began impressively the road which most people hope will lead the two tennis legends to ...
Pakistani man sentenced for creating fake identity
NEW YORK - A Pakistani man has been sentenced to two years of probation by a US court for creating a fake identity by using a ...
Nigerian indicted in U.S. for airline bomb plot
WASHINGTON A U.S. grand jury on Wednesday indicted Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on six counts for trying to blow up an ...
Angry Obama rebukes American spy chiefs
WASHINGTON - US intelligence failed in a potentially disastrous way in missing a failed plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane ...
Palestinians hurl stones at Egyptian soldiers
GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian soldier was killed and five Palestinians were wounded in a gunbattle on Wednesday during a protest ...
Man who survived two US A-bombs dies in Japan
TOKYO (AFP) - Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the US atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to tell the world of ...
US revokes terror suspects visas
WASHINGTON - The United States has revoked visas of those suspected of terrorism links after a failed attempt to blow up a US ...
Snow brings chaos to Britain as Europe shivers
LONDON (AFP) - Britains most brutal winter in decades caused chaos for travellers Wednesday as snow and ice hit airports and ...
Syria deems screening rules insufficient
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - New US rules tightening security checks for airline travellers from or via 14 countries, including Syria, ...
Spanish oppose sending more soldiers to Afghanistan
MADRID (AFP) - A majority of Spaniards oppose Madrids decision to send a further 500 troops to Afghanistan, according to an ...
Yemen captures key Al-Qaeda chief
SANAA (AFP/Reuters) - Yemeni security forces, under US pressure to rein in suspected extremists, Wednesday captured a key ...
Business
FBR collects over Rs577b in 6 months
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Federal Board of Revenue has collected a revenue amounting to Rs.577.337 billion during first half of the ...
'Govt borrowed Rs335b from banks in 2009'
RAWALPINDI - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Monetary Policy Department Director Dr Hamza Ali Malik on Wednesday said that the ...
Rupee at record low
KARACHI (Reuters) - The Pakistani rupee set a record low on Wednesday for the third consecutive day because of high demand for ...
Malaysia registers 31pc increase in imports from Pak
KARACHI (APP) - Malaysia has registered 31% increase in imports from Pakistan in July-June 2008-09 by importing goods valued at $ ...
Tea smuggling costs national kitty Rs382.66m
KARACHI (APP) - The national exchequer has sustained a revenue loss of Rs 382.666 million on account of tea smuggling under ...
Gold rises Rs37,400/tola
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The gold price soared to Rs 37,400 per tola in Peshawar, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. According ...
Wellhead gas price may rise up to 23pc
KARACHI - The wellhead gas prices are expected to rise up to 23pc, as the last of the semi-annual wellhead rates revision for ...
KSE adds another 70 points on foreign-led buying
KARACHI - The bullish trend continued at the stock market on third consecutive day because of greater foreign interest that ...
Oil eases before US inventory data
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices fell slightly on Wednesday ahead of data on US energy stockpiles and amid expectations that a spike in ...
'NWFP spinners supply 300 tons yarn to textile sector'
PESHAWAR (APP) - Vice Chairman, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Mohammad Taimoor Shah has said that spinning ...
Politics
15 killed in back-to-back US drone strikes
MIRANSHAH (Agencies) At least 15 people were killed and several more injured in two suspected attacks by US drones in Pakistans ...
Army poised to uproot terrorism
ISLAMABAD Top brass of Pakistan Army on Wednesday took serious notice of the growing incidents of terrorism in Azad Jummu ...
Acquittal refused to six accused
RAWALPINDI Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No 1 Wednesday rejected petitions seeking acquittal of six out of seven accused ...
US Consulate car impounded in Gwadar
QUETTA - A vehicle of US Consulate in Karachi was impounded by police in Gwadar for bearing a fake number plate on ...
'Loyal' persons' snaps on US Consulate website
PESHAWAR The US Consulate has displayed the pictures of its 'loyal personalities on its website and these dignitaries belong to ...
US to expand container screening at Pak ports
KARACHI (APP) US Ambassador Anne W Patterson said Wednesday that United States wanted to expand its containers pre-screening ...
'PPP negotiating with Sh Rashid for NA-55'
RAWALPINDI Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that PPP leaders were visiting Lal Haveli ...
By-polls issue already settled: CJ
ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold by-election in NA-123, Lahore, ...
No single party can surmount crises: Nawaz
KARACHI PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday underlined the need for implementing the Charter of Democracy (CoD) as decided by ...
CNG body offers daytime plan
ISLAMABAD Rejecting SNGPLs decision of closing CNG stations during the daytime, the CNG Association has offered to keep their ...
PAC seeks report on gas price raise
ISLAMABAD The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has asked the Petroleum Ministry, OGRA, Sui Northern Gas Company and Sui Southern ...
No democracy minus Zardari: Taseer
LAHORE Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer on Wednesday said that future of democracy in Pakistan was linked to President Zardaris ...
No meeting fixed with Gen Kayani: UN commission
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations spokesman Wednesday denied a report in a Pakistani newspaper (not The Nation) that the UN ...
Blast kills 4 Afghan kids, injures 9 Nato troops
JALALABAD (AFP) - A suspected roadside bomb killed four children and injured dozens including nine foreign troops Wednesday, ...
Govt paying subsidy for wheat, urea transportation from Gwadar Port
KARACHI - The federal government has paid a subsidy to the tune of Rs 5.21 billion for transportation of wheat and urea from ...
UK pledges unstinted support for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - The United Kingdom would continue to support Pakistan and stand by the crisis-hit nation through thick and thin in ...
PPP-MQM core body meets today on LG issue
ISLAMABAD Still poles apart on the fate of incumbent District Government System, which was excluded from the Sixth Schedule of ...
Reforms body for shifting caretaker set-up power to PM
ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms has proposed that the powers of appointment of caretaker set-up ...
Fehmida urges India to resume talks
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Pakistan has asked feuding Kashmiri factions to bury the hatchet and present a united front for the cause ...
US team audits CSF aid
ISLAMABAD - A team of US auditors is currently visiting Pakistan to audit the financial assistance made to Pakistan Army under ...
Blackwaters brutalities in Iraq
ISLAMABAD - The lucrative and secretive contracts awarded to Blackwater by Washington to assist the organisation in pursuit of US ...
Entertainment
Rachel Weisz voted 'most marriable'
ACTRESS Rachel Weisz has been voted the woman who men would most like to marry. The star of The Mummy and The Lovely Bones beat ...
Why we listen to our elders: It's in our genes
RESPECTING your elders might not just be a matter of good manners - it could be in your genes. Scientists have discovered the ...
Did Mona Lisa have high cholesterol?
MONA Lisas famous smile may have been the result of fatty acids gathered around her eye socket suggesting her high cholesterol ...
One in 10 stars has solar systems like ours
ONE in ten stars in the universe may host solar systems like the Suns family of planets, astronomers believe. Potentially ...
Lost Amazon civilisation discovered
HUNDREDS of geometric monuments unearthed deep in the Amazon may have been left behind by a previously unknown society, say ...
Packaged foods can have more calories than nutrition labelling indicates
WITH obesity rising markedly, reliance on the accuracy of food labeling is an important weight management strategy. Since people ...
Islamabad
PM serves CDA with in-time reminder
ISLAMABAD Thanks to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani for reminding CDA of developing Marghazar Zoo, otherwise the civic ...
No accommodations for teachers in Capital
ISLAMABAD Hundreds of faculty members and non-teaching staff of Islamabad Model Colleges (IMC) appointed through FPSC working ...
Action against vehicles with tinted glasses
RAWALPINDI (APP) The City Traffic Police here on Wednesday peeled off tinted sheets from windowpanes of dozens of cars here at ...
Relief demanded for Hunza landslide victims
ISLAMABAD A large number of activists of Hunza Youth Front staged a protest demonstration in front of National Press Club, ...
Experts' input sought to improve education sector
ISLAMABAD (APP) Senate Standing Committee on Education, which is presently busy finalising proposals for the upcoming National ...
Provincial govt to take over uplift projects
ISLAMABAD (APP) The federal government has prepared a strategy to end disparity among provinces in coming five years by shifting ...
Karachi
Pakistan set to win one gold, three silver medals
KARACHI Host Pakistan are certain to clinch one gold and three silver medals in the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto International Boxing ...
Aamir Khan sees bright future for Pakistani boxers
KARACHI Aamir Khan, the world light welter weight champion from Britain has praised Pakistan Boxing Federation for hosting ...
US announces Rs1b for fire-hit businessmen
KARACHI (APP) - US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W Patterson on Wednesday announced United States financial support of Rs 1 ...
Patterson visits Nine-Zero
KARACHI - US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson on Wednesday visited the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters ...
Ashura blast accused released
KARACHI - Administrative judge of Sindh High Court, Justice Ameer Hani Muslm on Wednesday ordered to release the accused ...
Probe into foul play in KFH land allotment starts
KARACHI - Following a volley of complaints regarding corruption and irregularities in the allotment of Karachi Fish Harbor (KFH) ...
Three more swine flu cases confirmed
KARACHI - The Sindh Health Department has confirmed the presence of Swine Flu virus in three more cases in the metropolis, while ...
New task force to work for medical tourism uplift
KARACHI - The 4th Inter-Provincial Tourism Ministerial meeting held in Karachi on Wednesday formed a task force to work out ...
Lahore
Yousuf reposes faith in struggling Akmal
LAHORE Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has ruled out the option of resting Kamran Akmal despite the wicketkeepers lacklustre ...
U-19 Women Cricket from 23rd
LAHORE The Pakistan Cricket Board Women Wing announced the schedule of National U-19 Women Cricket Championship 2010 starting ...
Faisalabad stays on top in CM Sports Cup
LAHORE Faisalabad won the Chief Minister Sports Cup second stage by securing 819 points here on Wednesday. Lahore followed the ...
SSGC clinch PFF title
LAHORE Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) kept 12th minute goal until final whistle to beat Sahiwals Young Blood in the ...
Swine flu patient on the loose
LAHORE - The doctors of Mayo Hospital continued to give Pneumonia treatment to a swine flu patient namely Mrs Hassan for two days ...
Raise in flour price another bomb shell
LAHORE - A sudden raise in flour prices as per the decision of the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) Punjab not only ...
CM welcomes Dutch offers for police training
LAHORE - Holland Ambassador in Pakistan, Joost Reintjes called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif here Wednesday and ...
10-hour loadshedding irks masses
LAHORE - The unending miseries of the masses are multiplying in the severe cold as the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) ...
25pc power subsidy on tube wells to boost agriculture
LAHORE - Senior Provincial Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed has said that the federal government would pay half of the subsidy of the ...
Qadiani's great grandson meets JI ex-Ameer
LAHORE - Great grandson of Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani, Abdur Rahman, who has reverted to Islam, called on Qazi Hussain Ahmed, ...
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