Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- 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
The Nation in print for Thursday, July 31, 2008
Front Page
Fierce battles rage in Swat
MINGORA - At least 25 militants were killed many others were injured on Wednesday in the continuing operation against militants in different parts of Matta and Kabal areas of Swat district. One of the top Taliban commanders, Maulvi Hussain Ali alias Toor Mullah was among the killed persons. ...
Peace deals spike militancy in Afghanistan: Nato
KABUL - Pakistan's peace talks with extremists have resulted in a 40 per cent rise in rebel activity in Afghanistan, where there ...
Govt cuts oil companies profit
ISLAMABAD- In a move to calm down public sentiments on rising oil prices, the government on Wednesday reduced profit margin of ...
US lawmakers block F-16s plan
WASHINGTON - Two Democratic US lawmakers are seeking to put on hold a move by the Bush administration to shift $226.5 million ...
International
Consequences if Tehran fails to meet deadline: US
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States reaffirmed Wednesday a weekend deadline for Iran to give a final answer to world powers ...
India bomb blasts leave sleuths groping in dark
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday met President Pratibha Patil and discussed the internal ...
North Korea hunger worst since 1990s: UN
BEIJING (AFP) - Hunger in North Korea is at its worst since the 1990s, the United Nations said Wednesday, prompting the ...
Army must change tactics against militants to halt chaos
LONDON - The Pakistani army, one of world's most highly autonomous forces, must change its tactics against the militants if it is ...
Olmert decides to bow out
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday he would step down in September after a party leadership ...
Turkey's ruling party narrowly escapes ban
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party narrowly escaped being banned Wednesday for undermining secularism as the ...
US mulls deploying missile defence radar in Israel
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to explore deploying a powerful missile defence targeting radar ...
American troops kill three Iraqis
SAMARRA (AFP) - US soldiers killed three unarmed Iraqi civilians, including a woman, near the central city of Samarra, the ...
Miliband's article fuels talk of plot against Brown
LONDON (AFP) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday the Labour Party must start offering "real change", in ...
Corruption truth commission set up in B'desh
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's government on Wednesday set up a truth commission that would allow corrupt businessmen and politicians ...
Business
Market reacts positively to monetary policy
LAHORE - Market reacted positively to the monetary policy because rise in discount rate was as per investors guess. The KSE-100 ...
Iran for common market for Muslims
LAHORE - The President Mashhad Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines Gholam Hossein Shafeai, has stressed the need for ...
Dismayed powers urge salvaging of wrecked WTO talks
GENEVA - World trading powers appealed on Wednesday for efforts to salvage WTO proposals amid regret and emotion at the ...
Fed extends actions to ease global credit squeeze
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve took further steps Wednesday to battle a global credit crunch, including an extension of ...
Oil prices fall below $122
LONDON - Oil prices fell slightly on Wednesday after a brief rally to stand below 122 dollars a barrel as the market ...
Pakistan likely to export 5m tons of rice during 2008-09
KARACHI - The rice exporters are optimistic about output of bumper rice crop in 2008-09 that would lead to 5 million tons export ...
Kuwaiti co acquires Meezan Bank 31.3m shares
KARACHI - Kuwait based Noor Financial Investment Company aimed to raise its stake to 41.7 per cent from 34.7 per cent in Meezan ...
PIA launches e-ticketing kiosk
KARACHI - Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Crescent Commercial Bank Limited (CCBL), a subsidiary of Samba ...
FPCCI concerned over new monetary policy
KARACHI - President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh has expressed his ...
Railways to rehabilitate 36 engines
LAHORE - Deputy Project Director Special Repair Locomotive Nusrullah Khan has said Wednesday that the Pakistan Railways has ...
Ministry of Industry likely to merge several 'unnecessary' bodies
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Industry is working on a plan to minimize the number unnecessary organizations, under its ...
Gilani says agriculture sector ripe for investment
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that even as Pakistan faces severe fiscal challenges and power ...
Politics
No possibility of Governor rule: Taseer
PESHAWAR - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer Wednesday ruled out the possibility of Governor's rule in Punjab, said demonstrating ...
NAB officials pardoned on tendering apology
ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday pardoned two senior officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ...
3 bank employees abducted
HANGU - The Manager of a private bank along with three others was picked up by unknown persons in Ferozkhel area of Aurakzai ...
Saarc nations sidestep trade pact amid frictions
COLOMBO (AFP) - South Asian leaders meeting in Sri Lanka this weekend will discuss improving commercial ties but political and ...
Taliban presence felt in S Punjab
TALIBAN made their presence felt in Southern Punjab after letters were found threatening women that acid would be thrown at their ...
Pakistan wants nuclear deal with US
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is pitching for a nuclear deal with the United States similar to the one ...
PTCL staff call off strike
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) employees Wednesday morning called off their strike after ...
Free courts vital for prosperity: Iftikhar
KARACHI - Deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on Wednesday said that rule of law and freedom of ...
Taliban kill female 'spy'
MIRANSHAH (AFP) - Taliban militants shot dead a woman in Miranshah after accusing her of spying for US forces across the border ...
Ban on live coverage irritates lawyers
KARACHI - The lawyers' fraternity and people belonging to different segments of society have strongly condemned the ban imposed ...
Bodies of 13 Pakistanis found near Istanbul
ISTANBUL - Thirteen illegal immigrants suffocated in an overcrowded truck container and their bodies were dumped Wednesday ...
Govt official killed in sectarian violence
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Gunmen shot dead a Shia official in suspected sectarian violence in Dera Ismael Khan Wednesday, triggering a ...
Islamabad rebuts Delhi claim of truce violation
SRINAGAR - India's Army on Wednesday accused Pakistani soldiers of again breaking a ceasefire along the Line of Control by ...
Presidency, PM House lock horns over Azadi Show
ISLAMABAD - A tug-of-war has started between Presidency and PM House over the holding of grand 'Azadi Show' on the eve of ...
Entertainment
Jolie to play Catwoman
THE 33-year-old actress - who gave birth to twins, the fifth and sixth children she raises with partner Brad Pitt, earlier this ...
LA passes ban on new fast-food outlets
Los Angeles - Los Angeles officials on Tuesday approved a one-year ban on fast-food chains opening in a poor neighbourhood ...
Caw-blimey: The confused crow that thinks it's a dog
WITH his sleek black feathers, sharp beak and wings there would seem to be little disputing the facts: this is a crow. It's ...
New gene clues to schizophrenia risk
PARIS - Three studies published on Wednesday unveil flaws in several chromosomes that highlight an inherited vulnerability ...
Keys & White record 007 song
ALICIA Keys and the White Stripes' Jack White have recorded the theme song to the 22nd James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace." The ...
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
A large chunk of an Arctic ice shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say. Nearly 20 sq km (eight ...
Islamabad
Ministry to ensure 100pc enrollment at primary level
ISLAMABAD - Despite overcrowded classrooms, lack of furniture and transportation facilities and understaffed faculty, the ...
CDA directed to gear up efforts to set up liver transplant centre
ISLAMABAD - The federal government has directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to gear up its efforts for the ...
CDA to upgrade G-7 market
ISLAMABAD - The CDA will upgrade Sitara market in sector G-7 and would resolve the basic problems of the market ...
LHC grants bail to Varsity student in terrorism case
RAWALPINDI - A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi, accepted bail application of a university student Syed ...
PCRWR's training course on sustainable water supply
ISLAMABAD - The participants of training course on "challenge of sustained water supply services" arranged by Pakistan Council of ...
MNA asks CDA to let owners develop lands as per city's needs
ISLAMABAD - The PML-N MNA from Capital area, Anjum Aqeel Khan, Wednesday said that local owners be allowed to develop their ...
Karachi
Monsoon rain renders City 'powerless'
KARACHI - Heavy downpour lashed the City on Monday leading to poor power supply in many areas. As many as 168 feeders got tripped ...
Banned outfits resurface in City
KARACHI - Sectarianism eclipsing the City as processions, rallies, gatherings, wall chalking and distribution of threatening ...
Eight killed in separate incidents
KARACHI - Eight persons killed in separate incidents here on Wednesday. According to details, a person killed by his brothers ...
Iftikhar flies to Capital
KARACHI - Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry along with other lawyers' leaders returned to Islamabad on Wednesday ...
Kamal reviews drainage work
Karachi - Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal paid an emergency visit to various areas of the city on Tuesday night when the ...
Bomb hoax at hospital
KARACHI - Bomb hoax created panic at a government hospital. According to police, an unknown caller informed at 15 police ...
Lahore
Matriculation result tomorrow
LAHORE - The Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) will announce the secondary school certificate ...
Clothing mysteries
Women and their obsession with clothes is the biggest enigma that man has been trying to solve since the advent of this world, ...
Shahbaz for boosting inter-provincial relations
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that Punjab province is the real brother of all provinces and we ...
Flour crisis further deepens in Punjab
LAHORE - The flour millers and the Punjab government again failed to develop a consensus over the issue of flour price during a ...
PSB-I approves promotion of 29 officers
LAHORE - The Provincial Selection Board-I has cleared 29 officers of various departments for promotion to next grades, while out ...
Heavy downpour buffets City
LAHORE - The city received heavy downpour on Wednesday disturbing routine life as the rainwater inundated on a number of main ...
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