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 Thursday, July 17, 2008
Front Page
Gilani chides Karzai over accusations: Cabinet sees no threat to country
LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has chided Afghanistan over the remarks of its President Hamid Karzai accusing Pakistan of a spate of terrorist attacks, and has sought balance in the relationship among the neighbouring countries. Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned Afghanistan for ...
Nato troops return fire into Pakistan
KABUL - NATO-led troops in Afghanistan used attack helicopters and artillery to fire into Pakistan after coming under ...
Quake victim rape case: Arrest warrants for Pervaiz, Fazl, others
LAHORE - A district court hearing a Qazf case on Wednesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for eleven persons including ...
Saudi King appeals for dialogue to end disputes
Madrid - "Most of the dialogues (between religions) have ended in failure," said Saudi King Abdullah, inaugurating the ...
International
Ban calls for understanding among world religions
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday stressed the need for fostering mutual understanding among world ...
McCain terms Obama's threat against Pakistan as 'bluster'
WASHINGTON " US presidential rivals - Barack Obama and John McCain - both called Tuesday for action to improve the worsening ...
UK to enhance Pak aid for countering terrorism
LONDON - Britain will increase its financial aid to Pakistan for countering terrorism, radicalisation and other challenges like ...
Don't ignore Tests, says Ranatunga
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's legendary former captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Wednesday urged players to preserve Test cricket in the ...
US envoy to attend int'l nuclear talks with Iran
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States announced Wednesday a senior American diplomat would attend international nuclear talks with ...
Life is so dear to us
KABUL (Agencies) - US and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote village in eastern Afghanistan where Taliban killed nine American ...
'Bush can hold terror suspect indefinitely'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W Bush has the power to keep a terrorist ...
Child abuse scandal flares as Pope prepares for youth festival
SYDNEY (AFP) - The scandal over child sex abuse by Catholic priests flared again Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI prepared to take ...
40 die in Egypt level-crossing pileup
CAIRO (AFP) - At least 40 people were killed and 60 injured on Wednesday when a truck failed to stop at a level-crossing and ...
China breaks up 12 terror cells
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police in a remote northwestern city have broken up 12 terrorist cells this year as part of the nation's ...
French President praises Islam
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Islam on Wednesday at a ceremony with Saudi Prince Al Walid bin Talal to ...
Business
Protest of PTCL employees enters 2nd day
LAHORE - The PTCL employees continued their protest for the second day Wednesday to press their demand of restoring their earlier ...
Karachi Stock Exchange loses Rs363b in three days
KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has lost a massive market capitalisation of Rs363 billion in just three trading days after ...
Record $6.451 billion remittances in FY08
KARACHI - Pakistan received the highest-ever amount of over $6.451 billion as workers' remittances in the recently concluded ...
60,000 acres land for agriculture graduates and farmers: Minister
LAHORE - The Punjab Minister for Agriculture Ahmad Ali Olakh has said that 60,000 acres agricultural land would be given to ...
SECP, KSE fail to manage proposed Rs50b EMOF
KARACHI - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) have not succeeded to manage the ...
Saudi Arabian king slams oil speculators
ROME - Saudi Arabian King Abdullah on Wednesday denounced speculation on oil prices and called for more dialogue between ...
Rail mobile police soon
LAHORE - The Chairman Pakistan Railways Mohammad Kashif Murtaza has said that to ensure the life and property of the passengers, ...
Motor Vehicles Ord enforced
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf has promulgated an Ordinance called as Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment) ...
First ship with 36,000MT wheat arrives
KARACHI - A vessel, MV Ocean Trader, carrying 36,000 metric tons of wheat imported from Ukraine berthed at Port Qasim on ...
US consumer prices surge 1.1pc in June; most since '82
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US consumer prices soared at the strongest pace in 26 years in June, rising 1.1 percent from May, due to ...
Politics
US for action against Taliban
WASHINGTON - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan "sooner rather ...
Primary education declines by 3pc
LAHORE - Pakistan is perhaps one such state among 200 countries on the global map wherein percentage of primary education has ...
Threat of US strikes 'looms large'
ISLAMABAD"The threat of US 'surgical' strikes on Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts in Waziristan and other tribal areas is 'real', ...
Stocks slump to 18-month low
LAHORE - Continued foreign selling pressure, margin calls, political uncertainty and weak economic fundamentals on Wednesday ...
Court verdict in AQ case on Monday
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC), Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam on Wednesday reserved his judgment on a ...
Bomb kills cop, hurts 6 FC men
QUETTA - One police man was killed and twelve others including six personnel of Frontier Corps were injured in a powerful bomb ...
Government to institutionalise recruitment process
LAHORE - The government plans to establish a national commission for employment and human resource development to ...
Police used as tool to curb political opponents: ICG
ISLAMABAD - The International Crisis Group has observed that the police in Pakistan was employed as a sharp tool to curb ...
Hezbollah, Israel swap prisoners bodies
NAQURA - Hezbollah on Wednesday handed over black coffins it said contained the remains of two Israeli soldiers seized two ...
Sindh seeks end to water accord with Balochistan, NWFP
KARACHI - Responding to the allegations of Balochistan regarding lesser supply of water than the allocated share under Water ...
NFC reconstitution: Summary sent to President
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Secretariat has dispatched the summary recommending reconstitution of National Finance Commission ...
Ministerial committee to resolve PTCL issue
LAHORE - As the PTCL workers continued their protest against new pay scales announced by the government for second consecutive ...
Snooker club blasted in Batkhela
MINGAORA " Unknown miscreants blew up a snooker club in Batkhela bazaar on Wednesday, however, it did not hurt any person, police ...
Afghan AG fired after announcing election bid
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday dismissed his controversial, corruption-busting attorney general, one day ...
Entertainment
The 700-year-old mummy with a tummy ache
REMNANTS of the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, Helicobacter pylori, (H. pylori) have been discovered in gastric tissue ...
Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction
NINETY-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly ...
Posh lets her hair down a bit
POSH pictured clinging unsteadily to husband David Beckham after eating out in LA Victoria seemed to be a little the worse ...
Cosmonauts' second spacewalk goes smoothly
TWO Russian spacewalkers installed a docking target and changed out science experiments during their second career spacewalk on ...
As planet swelters, are algae unlikely saviour?
OSLO - As the world mulls the question of how to satisfy a seemingly endless appetite for energy and still slash greenhouse ...
Elton John has been ice creamed
Elton John becomes inspiration for New Ben & Jerry's ice cream. The music legend has been honoured with a limited-edition ice ...
Islamabad
PSF to brief players on doping
ISLAMABAD - Following positive dope tests of national athletes and Test cricketer Muhammad Asif, Pakistan Squash Federation has ...
Rs 5,626.481m Pindi District Council budget presented amidst rowdyism
RAWALPINDI - The annual budget of District Council for the fiscal year of 2008-09 was presented here at a local hotel on GT Road ...
Inter-district postings, transfers
RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO), Rawalpindi, Nasir Khan Durrani issued inter-district transfer and posting orders of ...
G-14 allottees losing hope for possession
ISLAMABAD- Allottees of the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF), G-14, are losing hope because of delayed ...
Dengue confirmation causes jitters
ISLAMABAD - The confirmation of a dengue case in the Capital has caused jitters among the residents fearing the epidemic could ...
NIP to enroll new batch in August
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Internship Programme (NIP) would induct the fresh batch of un-employed post-graduates from the first ...
Hazrat Ali moot concludes today
ISLAMABAD (APP) - A concluding session of Birthday conference of Hazrat Ali (RA) will be held on Thursday. Sardar Attique ...
National
Cricket in AJK will help raise Kashmir issue world over
MIRPUR (AJK) - Senior Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Malik Muhammad Nawaz has said that the AJK government was paying special ...
Karachi
Malik wants Champions Trophy to stay in Pakistan
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik on Wednesday urged the International Cricket Council not to move the Champions ...
Olympics hockey team to be named on Monday
KARACHI - A 16-member Pakistan hockey team for next months Beijing Olympics Games will be named at Lahore on July 21 after one ...
Sajjad on top in Sindh Open Golf
KARACHI - Sajjad Khan of Islamabad fired a superb eagle at par five 7th and a string of four birdies to post five under 67 to ...
Pakistan team leaves to attend Saarc moot
KARACHI - A fifty-member Pakistani delegation left on Wednesday to take part in three-day South Asian People's Assembly for the ...
'80 pc stormwater drains cleaned'
KARACHI - On the directives of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal the Municipal Services department has completed 80 percent of the ...
Sindh Govt to set up Media Centre
KARACHI (APP) - Sindh Government is going to establish a media centre at a cost of Rs 100 million to facilitate journalists ...
Court summons DCO, KESC officials
KARACHI - Divisional Bench of Sindh High Court on Wednesday summoned the DCO, EDO (Revenue) and other officials of district Tando ...
'Brutality' against PTCL workers flayed
KARACHI - Iqbal Haider, Co-Chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Wednesday strongly condemned 'brutal ...
Lahore
Authorities lay trap to fleece commuters
LAHORE - The residents of Cavalry ground, Officers Colony, Super Town and adjoining localities are perturbed over lifting of ...
Jamali named in FIH Jury of Appeal
LAHORE - President Pakistan Hockey Federation Mir Zafarullah Jamali is being appointed member of FIH Jury of Appeal which will ...
Pakistan keeping Talha as stand by for Shoaib
LAHORE - The Pakistan selectors are likely to include Mohammad Talha in case Shoaib Akhtar is ruled out for the Champions Trophy ...
Pakistan lose to India 1-3 in Junior Asia Hockey Cup Semi-Final
LAHORE - Pakistan went down to India 1-3 in the first semi-final of 6th Men's Junior Asia Cup Hockey in Hyderabad, India on ...
ICC to discuss Champions Trophy security
LAHORE - The International Cricket Council has convened a meeting in Dubai this weekend to discuss the security situation in ...
Altaf calls for unity against 'alien attack'
KARACHI - MQM leader Altaf Hussain has said the country is facing critical situation while its nuclear assets are at risk, ...
Gastro hits more children
LAHORE - Though not alarming, gastroenteritis among children has increased with major hospitals getting more patients than the ...
Officials of Camp Jail summoned
LAHORE - Justice Khalil Ahmed of the Lahore High Court has summoned officials of the Camp Jail Lahore including Superintendent of ...
Expo '08: Illiteracy main hurdle in entering estate industry
LAHORE - The participants of the 1st Property Expo 2008 in collaboration with Nawa-i-Waqt have termed the final day as real ...
LHC directs to remove encroachments
LAHORE - Justice Ali Akbar Qureshi of the Lahore High Court Wednesday directed the DCO Lahore to remove the encroachments made by ...
CCPO stresses strict observance of traffic rules
LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Pervez Rathore has underlined the need for collective efforts to meet the ...
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