Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Saturday, July 26, 2008
Front Page
Free judiciary ensures economic security: Iftikhar
MULTAN - Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday elaborated the relationship between independent judiciary and economic growth of any country, saying 'investment shies away from economies and countries that do not have an independent judiciary'. "What capital and investment, both ...
No Nawaz-Gilani meeting in London
LONDON - There is no possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif in London, ...
Electricity shortage soars to 7,075MW
LAHORE - As the country is plunging deeper and deeper into the energy crisis, the electricity shortfall has hit the record level ...
32pc inflation breaks 30-year-old record
ISLAMABAD - Higher energy and food prices have pushed inflation over 32 per cent, the highest in the last 30 years, as both the ...
International
US lawmaker welcomes release of Pakistani-American
WASHINGTON: - US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, on Wednesday met with Dr. ...
Fresh clashes shake north Lebanon: Six killed: sporadic fire despite ceasefire
TRIPOLI - Six people, including a child, were killed in fierce sectarian clashes on Friday in Lebanon's northern port of ...
Sudan threatens to expel UN peacekeepers
ADDIS ABABA - Sudan threatened Friday to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Bashir is indicted for war ...
Iran must resolve N-dispute before US vote: Obama
PARIS - US White House hopeful Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should not wait for the new US president to be elected to ...
Ban Ki-moon urges Israel to freeze all settlement activity
UNITED NATIONS: - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity in West Bank. In ...
CIA authorised to torture suspects
WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to torture jailed terror suspects, ...
8 die in mosque collapse
BEIJING - At least eight people were killed and three seriously injured after a mosque being built in northwest China ...
Taliban cannot be defeated militarily
KABUL - Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents use a sophisticated media strategy to portray themselves as stronger than they are ...
Brown suffers fresh blow in by-election
LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered another serious blow to his leadership Friday after his governing ...
Australia to decide after ICC Task Force's report
MUMBAI - Cricket Australia (CA) will wait till the outcome of the ICC's Task Force team before deciding the composition of its ...
T20 Champions League put off
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Cricket's multi-million dollar Twenty20 Champions League has been postponed, an Indian official said on Friday, ...
China's athletes pledge 'glory' as biggest Olympic team unveiled
BEIJING (AFP) - Yao Ming and many of China's other top athletes pledged "glory to the motherland" on Friday as the ...
Khan predicts eight medals for British boxers
LONDON (AFP) - Amir Khan believes Britain's boxers can win eight medals at the Beijing Olympics. Britain will have eight ...
Business
Acquisition of MCB shares by Maybank: Balance of payments, reserves to rise $217m
KARACHI - The expected acquisition of MCB Bank's shares by Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) may add $217 million to the country's ...
Market fails to sustain bullish view
LAHORE - Equity Market Opportunity Fund buying, new discovery of oil and gas in Sindh, acquiring of another five per cent of MCB ...
SPI for lowest income group goes further up
ISLAMABAD - The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), for the week ended on July 24, for the lowest income group up to Rs. ...
Government mulls 100pc increase in agri-support price
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) Nazar Muhammad Gondal said Friday that due to ...
Oil drops to $124 in New York
LONDON - Oil prices headed south again on Friday, cutting short a brief rally amid a drop in fuel demand across the United ...
MBA in Islamic Banking soon
KARACHI - Meezan Bank Limited (MBL) and Riphah International University (RIU) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding under ...
Pak-Iran trade rises to $125m in first quarter
KARACHI - Pakistan and Iran bilateral trade has increased to $ 125 million in the first three months of current fiscal year after ...
PSM production capacity needs to be raised to 1.3 MT
ISLAMABAD - Mian Manzoor Wattoo, Advisor to Prime Minister said on Friday that production capacity of Pakistan Steel Mills ...
CSF issues annual progress report
ISLAMABAD - The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) here on Friday published its annual progress report, highlighting its ...
Politics
Rice gives another 'do more' prodding
PERTH - The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border ...
Bush hails Islamabad democratic strides
WASHINGTION - Renewing US support for freedom and liberty around the world, President George W Bush on Thursday acknowledged ...
President, PM for ISAF to be more effective
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have reiterated the government's firm resolve ...
Girls school blown up; cloth market torched
MINGORA - Unknown miscreants set a girls school on fire and blew up a private market with explosive material in two different ...
Indian allegation may harm ties: FM
LONDON - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that despite harsh attitude on part of India, Pakistan is treating New ...
Suicide attacks dip by 80pc in NWFP: Malik
ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has said that suicide attacks have come to zero level in Punjab ...
Militants free eight hostages
HANGU - In the wake of ceasefire between administration and alleged Taliban militants, the members of reconciliatory Jirga Friday ...
Eight Punjab judges willingv to come back
LAHORE - Attorney-General of Pakistan Malik Qayyum Friday called on Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and discussed with him the ...
Two killed as nine blasts jolt Bangalore
BANGALORE - A string of nine synchronised bomb blasts on Friday shook India's high-technology capital Bangalore during the ...
Faraz's condition deteriorates
WASHINGTON: " Poet Ahmed Faraz's condition has deteriorated, with sources at a Chicago hospital saying that there was not much ...
Evening and fast-track courts being planned
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Law, Justice, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights Division Farooq H Naek has said that ...
Judges issue 'N' to await outcome of Zardari-Nawaz impending meeting
ISLAMABAD - Rejecting calls for flexibility, a high-level PML-N meeting Friday decided to leave contentious issue of ...
Pak UN envoy Munir Akram leaving post
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan UN Ambassador Munir Akram, whom a former US top diplomat described as "smooth-as-silk", is leaving his ...
Operation against illegal sale of cellular SIMs from Aug 1
ISLAMABAD - Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mahmood has announced a countrywide crackdown against ...
Coalition airstrike perishes 40 Taliban
GHAZNI - Forty Taliban were killed in airstrike to take back a district of Afghanistan captured by the group while a British ...
Jirga fails to calm Tirah fighting
PESHAWAR - The reconciliatory jirga of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) has so far failed to make any breakthrough in striking a peace ...
FC vehicle damaged in bomb attack
QUETTA - A vehicle of Frontier Corps (FC) was slightly damaged in remote bomb attack in Khuzdar on Friday. FC Commandant ...
Gilani off to US today
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will embark on an all-important visit to the United States on Saturday ...
Entertainment
Ancient Aboriginal rock art at risk
BURRUP PENINSULA (Australia)- Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being damaged or destroyed because ...
Why play a losing game?
ALTHOUGH state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into ...
Brangelina twins are vitro fertilised
ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly conceived their twins using in vitro fertilization. The couple - who welcomed Knox ...
Bregenz Festival excavates long-forgotten Krenek opera
BREGENZ, (Austria) - While the opening night of the annual Bregenz Festival on Wednesday was one for the masses with a visually ...
Life eerily imitates art in Karadzic manhunt
BELGRADE - For novelist Mirjana Djurdjevic, revelations about the secret life adopted by Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive ...
What makes the Northern Lights dance?
WASHINGTON - Explosions of magnetic energy between Earth and the moon are behind the sparkles and wavy glows of the ...
Islamabad
Private hospitals fleecing patients
ISLAMABAD - Owing to lack of priorities towards health sector by the government, private hospitals are seeking unfair advantage ...
CNG buses may solve commuters fares problem
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Commuters in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been facing myriad transport problems which spiralled ...
Khalid Manzoor Butt: An unsung artist
ISLAMABAD - Khalid Manzoor Butt could rightly be called an unsung artist, who has golden fingers in the art of painting but has ...
PML-Q convenes party's media conference on Aug 1
ISLAMABAD - Secretary General PML-Q Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has convened a media conference of all PML provincial ...
ICT sets up atta sale points
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory administration has further enhanced the vigilance on smooth and sufficient supply of ...
Pro-investor policies attractive for FDI: PM
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan has great potential for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...
Karachi
Pull-out threat looms
KARACHI (AFP) - Holders Australia and other key nations could pull out of the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket ...
Relieved Pakistan vow safe Champions Trophy
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan's relieved cricket authorities said Friday that they were more focused than ever on staging a safe ...
No-hopers Pakistan to make up for numbers
KARACHI (AFP) - For a nation obsessed with sports, Pakistan has very little to boast about when it comes to the Olympics and even ...
South Zone, Central Zone Blues to clash in final
KARACHI - South Zone scored easy seven-wicket win over Central Zone Greens to reach the final of the inaugural Women's National ...
Small traders observe shutterdown strike
KARACHI - Small traders in the city observed shutterdown strike on Friday against the government's recent move of raising the ...
Dengue claims another life in Karachi
KARACHI - Dengue fever has returned the metropolis and a young girl was confirmed dead due to this fatal disease at Abbasi ...
Girl killed during police encounter
KARACHI - A girl was killed in police encounter when five accused tried to escape from the premises of City Court. Police have ...
Work on Sports Complex to start soon
KARACHI - Provincial Sports Minister Dr Muhammad Ali Shah has said that Sindh government is going to start construction of ...
Kannup power supply finally restored
KARACHI - Power supply from the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kannup) has finally been restored. The plant, ...
Probe into misuse of funds ordered
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Home and Forests, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza on Friday issued orders to conduct inquiry into the alleged ...
Lahore
Asif submits statement to fact-finding committee
LAHORE - Fast bowler Muhammad Asif submitted a written statement to the fact-finding committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board ...
Penpix of Olympics-bound Pakistan hockey team
LAHORE - The factfile of the Pakistan Olympic hockey team due to take part in 29th Olympic Games Hockey Tournament at Beijing, ...
488 prosecutors employed by ex-government fired
LAHORE - The Punjab government on Friday has terminated the contractual appointments of 488 public prosecutors, while 394 ...
People lodge protest against LGH admin
LAHORE - Scores of people Friday launched strong protest against the Lahore General Hospital management for not providing ...
No detention on mere agencies' report: LHC
LAHORE-The Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday ruled that no one could be detained on agencies' report without having incriminating ...
Wall built by Cantt Board sparks controversy
LAHORE - A wall erected behind one side of commercial plazas in Cavalry Ground has become controversial among the residents, ...
Constitutional package and government's designs
LAHORE - Constitutional package means PPP is least interested in restoration of the deposed judges and the gimmick is only to buy ...
JAP to challenge IHC decision on AQ case
LAHORE - Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) has announced to challenge the decision of Islamabad High Court on nuclear scientist Dr ...
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