Thursday, February 09, 2012
- 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
- Warrant issued for ex-Maldives president
- Nato supplies continue through Pak airspace: Munter
- Contempt appeal: SC asks Aitzaz to complete arguments on Friday
- Khar says drone attacks multiply militants
- Tax collection registers increase of 26%: Hafeez Shaikh
- 77% of Pakistanis marry within family: Gallup poll
The Nation in print for Saturday, July 12, 2008
Front Page
Raise in gas tariff: Textile units shut down
FAISALABAD - Hundreds of textile units in and around Faisalabad were shut down in protest against the gas price-hike and discontinuation of Research and Development support facility to the exporters. Industrial units closure was announced after an emergent meeting of Pakistan Textile Exporters ...
Qureshi, Rice hold 'frank' talks
WASHINGTON: - Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi described his hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as ...
Attack on Pakistan before 20th feared
FORMER ISI Chief General (r) Hameed Gul warned that there are such information and evidence which indicate that the US forces may ...
US poised to hit Taliban targets
US commandos are reportedly poised to launch raids against Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Pakistan as Washington moves an ...
International
Sudan urged to bring perpetrators of attack on Darfur blue helmets to justice
UNITED NATIIONS: - The U.N. has launched an initial enquiry into Tuesday's attack on its joint peacekeeping force with the ...
Pakistani charged with daughter's killing in US
NEW YORK: - A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter because she wanted out of an arranged marriage has told a judge that ...
Bush urged to back Gilani, not Musharraf, in combating militants
NEW YORK: - Stating that President Pervez Musharraf had been shored up "for far too long", an influential American ...
Bosnians mourn Srebrenica massacre victims
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, - Some 30,000 Muslims from across Bosnia gathered Friday to remember the 1995 Srebrenica ...
Indian govt's trial of strength on July 22
NEW DELHI - The four-year-old UPA government will face its first trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22 with Congress ...
Sudan warns of dangers if President charged
THE HAGUE - International Criminal Court prosecutors will seek the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes ...
Iran tests show US missile shield not needed: Russia
MOSCOW - Iran's recent missile tests showed the limited range of Tehran's arsenal and proved that a planned US missile ...
Lebanon agrees unity cabinet to end political crisis
BEIRUT - Lebanon announced a 30-member national unity government on Friday tasked with resolving the country's worst ...
New doubts arise over Israeli Premier
JERUSALEM - Israeli police have new suspicions over the finances of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, they said on Friday after ...
Business
Lower, upper breakers restored to earlier levels
KARACHI - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has reversed the earlier amendment to the lower and upper circuit ...
SBP directs exporters to bring back overdue forex
KARACHI - In order to encourage prompt financial inflows into the country, the State Bank has asked the "Authorized Dealers" to ...
Provincial govt resists Sindh Coal Authority main office in Islamabad
KARACHI - Seeking the complete control over its coal reserves the Sindh cabinet has strongly opposed the federal government's ...
SECP launches analyst certification programme
KARACHI - The Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has launched analyst certification programme (ACP) to ...
Oil prices top 147 dollars
LONDON - Oil prices rocketed to record highs above 147 dollars on Friday as traders seized on the weak US currency and ...
Stock market ends down despite fund proposal
LAHORE - In spite of attractive rates declining trend at the stock market continued and the KSE-100 index with range-bound ...
Need for a focused approach to economic challenges
The first hundred days of this government are drawing to a close and in this initial period, it may or may not have delivered on ...
JSIL announces results of open-end funds
KARACHI - The JS Investments Limited, JSIL (formerly JS ABAMCO Limited) has announced the financial results for Open End Funds ...
Sugarcane prices issue
LAHORE - Pakistan Sugar Mills Association Punjab Zone (PSMA) thinks that the sugar and sugarcane prices issue can be overcome by ...
Increased gas tariffs to further choke textile margins
KARACHI - The recent hike in gas prices of 31 percent for fuel gas and 68 percent for captive power plants is going to ...
Politics
Taliban threaten to kill hostages as talks fail
HANGU - The alleged Taliban militants on Friday threatened to kill all the 29 hostages if the government authorities do not ...
Larger bench likely to decide Sharifs fate
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar is likely to constitute a larger bench for the hearing of two government appeals ...
Governor's rule in Kashmir
NEW DELHI - Governor's rule was imposed in Indian Kashmir and state assembly dissolved following resignation tendered by ...
Inflation beats govt target
ISLAMABAD - Inflation rate stands at 12 per cent at the end of the financial year, which is almost double than the government ...
Population growth rate to be down to 1.55 pc
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his government would bring down the population growth rate to ...
Fata operation pressing JUI-F to leave coalition
ISLAMABAD - The currently ongoing operation by the security forces in tribal areas has put tremendous pressure on the central ...
Two killed; girls school blown up
PESHAWAR - A girl was killed while two others got injured when some unknown persons Friday attacked the house of an official of ...
US killed 64 Afghan civilians: investigations
JALALABAD - Official investigations have found that US-led airstrikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and ...
Earthquake jolts Peshawar, Islamabad
ISLAMABAD - A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted northwestern Pakistan Friday but there were no ...
Pak agencies not involved in Kabul blast
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan agencies are not involved in attack on Indian embassy in ...
Mastung police recover 4 bodies
Quetta - Police Friday recovered four bodies, whose hands and foots were tied with ropes from Mastung area, some 30 kilometers ...
Radioactive material disposed of
ISLAMABAD - Authorities Friday said the radioactive material found in Karachi had now been disposed of safely. Authorities ...
Israeli jets use Iraqi airspace to practise Iran strike: website
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi website has claimed that Israeli warplanes have been using Iraqi airspace to practice for possible bombing of ...
Six including engineer kidnapped
DERA MURAD JAMALI - Six persons including engineer of a private company were kidnapped by unknown persons in two separate ...
Entertainment
Faces members considering reunion
FACES keyboard player Ian McLagan has confirmed the surving members of the band, including Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, have been ...
Carla Bruni 'hurt' by critics of new album
PARIS - France's first lady Carla Bruni admitted Friday she was "hurt" by frosty reactions to her new album by critics of her ...
Jessica Alba gives in and makes deal with OK
OK Magazine is really on a role this week. First they reportedly paid Mathew McConaughey $3 million dollars forpics of Levi ...
Antonio Banderas sends his best wishes to Brangelina
ANTONIO Banderas says Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie should just "try their best" when they welcome their twins later this month. ...
Ethan Hawke ties the knot
ETHAN Hawke has got married. Actor-turned-author Ethan, 37, married Ryan Shawhughes, 28, last month in a secret ceremony. ...
Pete Wentz's greatest record of all on its way
FALL Out Boy, FNMTV host and soon-to-be-father Pete Wentz is dishing out details on one of our favorite topics: babies ...
Islamabad
Exhibition of rare photographs of Benazir
ISLAMABAD - An exhibition of 400 photographs by a photojournalist Waqar Zaidi held her Friday portraying political life of slain ...
'Special attention being paid to rural Islamabad's uplift'
ISLAMABAD - Chief Commissioner Hamid Ali Khan Friday said Islamabad Capital Territory Administration was spending tens of million ...
Work on another interchange, underpass in Dec
ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority would initiate construction work of an interchange and underpass at Islamabad ...
'Religion, culture inter-linked'
ISLAMABAD - The Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IIIRD) and the International Islamic University ...
RPO pays surprise visit to police stations
RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO), Nasir Khan Durrani paid a surprise visit to Police Station Taxila and found some ...
8 outlaws held, stolen items recovered
ISLAMABAD - The Capital Police have arrested eight accused, including three women involved in theft and street crimes and ...
Karachi
'Q' still to recover from Feb 18 shock
KARACHI - The disintegration process in PML-Q is still going on despite the fact that, so far, the coalition government at ...
HSC Part-II Home Economics results announced
KARACHI - The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Friday announced the results of the Higher Secondary School ...
Massive decline in BSc enrolment
KARACHI- The recently issuance of results of the Bachelors of Science (BSc-Pass) Part-II / Both Parts Annual Examinations 2007 ...
3 killed as resurfacing of sectarianism feared
KARACHI - The resurfacing of the banned sectarian organisations has claimed three lives in a week, The Nation has learnt on ...
Govt performance reviewed
Karachi - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Friday presided over a meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh ...
Reforms in prosecution system
Karachi - Sindh Minister for Human Rights Nadia Gabol has proposed reforms in the Prosecution System in order to ensure swift ...
Lahore
Packed milk a threat to masses
LAHORE - Even packed milk of known brands is not safe for humans as it contains one or more hazardous chemicals, drugs or residue ...
Roads widely encroached by building materials
LAHORE - A number of city roads broadened to create more space for the growing vehicular traffic have widely been encroached by ...
Discrimination against PhD students: PU submits reply to LHC
LAHORE - The Punjab University in its reply before the Lahore High Court (LHC) in a petition of two PhD students submitted that ...
PPP accuses 'N' of dual policy
LAHORE- Member PPP's Central Executive Committee, Ch. Manzoor Ahmed on Friday criticised the PML-N leadership for its alleged ...
Jallo Park to be a model park
LAHORE -The Punjab government has taken out a number of steps to upgrade Jallo Park, spread at 456 acres of land and being ...
From down under to 'Back Home'
LAHORE - Many leave Pakistan in search of greener pastures, hoping to return one day. But few manage to do that while most ...
317 sites identified for power plants
LAHORE- The Irrigation and Power Department (I&P), has identified 317 sites suitable for setting up plants for generating ...
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