Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
The Nation in print for Sunday, July 06, 2008
Front Page
Nawaz too responsible for Kargil war: Zardari
NEW DELHI - Amid calls for President Pervez Musharraf to step down, PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has insisted that he would have to quit but his party wants a graceful exit for him. Zardari denied allegations about him being soft on Musharraf but was of the opinion that he should be ...
'Mild' operation in Khyber continues: Elders optimistic about peace
PESHAWAR - Showing satisfaction over the response of Lashkar-I-Islam chief, Mangal Bagh, the members of the traditional tribal ...
Kidwai comes out with guns blazing
ISLAMABAD - Refuting the allegations of renowned scientist, Dr AQ Khan, on the involvement of army and the then army chief and ...
Govt comes to rescue Shahbaz
ISLAMABAD - Only a day after the meeting between Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz ...
International
Bush cautioned against rushing US-India N-deal
NEW YORK: - Portraying the U.S.-India nuclear deal as "far-too-generous", an influential American newspaper on Saturday ...
Iran defiant on right to nuclear power
TEHRAN - Iran is ready to negotiate with world powers on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial ...
Americans celebrate Independence Day amid political battles
WASHINGTON - With fireworks displays lighting the skies from coast to coast, Americans celebrated Independence Day as White ...
Rice 'proud' of Iraq invasion decision
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that she was "proud" of the US decision to invade Iraq ...
25 killed in Syrian prison riot: HR group
NICOSIA - At least 25 inmates were shot dead by Syrian ecurity forces during a riot by political detainees at a prison in ...
10,000 protest over violence against Asians in New Zealand
AUCKLAND - An estimated 10,000 people took part in a rally in pouring rain in Auckland on Saturday to protest against ...
Lebanon to get new govt soon
BEIRUT - Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said on Saturday he was confident that a national unity government for Lebanon would be ...
36 dead in fresh Lanka fighting
Colombo - Sri Lankan troops shot dead another 35 Tamil Tiger rebels and lost one of their own soldiers in fresh fighting in ...
Holding quits ICC over Oval change as Zimbabwe remain
LONDON - Cricket officials who hoped this week might end with one sort of resignation from the International Cricket ...
Player to look out for
Mahendra Singh Dhoni He is the linchpin of the Indian side today. Having taken over the reigns as captain last year, Dhoni ...
Australia take 4-0 lead with narrow victory
BASSETERRE - Shane Watson kept his nerve, and the seventh-wicket pair of Denesh Ramdin and Darren Sammy failed to carry ...
Windies strongly focus on final ODI after cliffhanger
BASSETERRE - As badly as Australia want to complete a clean sweep of their five-match One-day International series, West Indies' ...
Business
Dollar hits Rs71 for first time
KARACHI - On the pretext of speculative and panic sentiments prevalent in the capital market, the rupee reached record low level ...
Global Enabling Trade Report 2008: Pakistan at 84 among 118 countries
ISLAMABAD - East Asian economies, Hong Kong and Singapore, occupy the top two positions in the Enabling Trade Index ranking, ...
Average daily volumes at 11-year low of 17.7m shares (KSE weekly review)
KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) witnessed a lustreless performance during the week, as the volumes were at 10 and a half ...
President visits SBP: Pakistan facing economic stress, says Dr Shamshad
KARACHI - President Pervez Musharraf visited the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, on Saturday to seek a briefing on the State of ...
KCCI and DPR Korea Chamber of Commerce ink MoU
ISLAMABAD - A Memorandum of Understanding between the KCCI and D.P.R Korea Chamber of Commerce here on Saturday, to enhance the ...
Apparel export sector demands R&D support across the board
LAHORE - The Apparel Forum, the real representatives of apparel export sector, has urged the government to provide R&D ...
Government to facilitate investors in power sector
ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf said Saturday the govt is fully determined to providing a ...
Europe must end energy dependence on Russia, says ex-IEA chief
PARIS - The European Union should free itself from its dependence on Russian gas by developing renewable and nuclear energy, the ...
Govt keen to give relief to poor, says Wattoo
ISLAMABAD - The Government is keen to give relief to the poorest of the poor and the mechanism to identify the deserving ...
Efforts on to set up industrial estate for overseas Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD - The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) is working to set up an industrial estate for Overseas Pakistanis at ...
Politics
Lawyers propose courts lock-up
LAHORE - The high court bar associations of the three provinces of the country while expressing dissatisfaction with the ruling ...
Iran warns of Gulf blitzkrieg
TEHRAN - Iran's military chiefs warned on Saturday that the Islamic republic would shut down the Strait of Hormuz vital for ...
CNG body passes on taxes to consumers
LAHORE - Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Association Pakistan has passed the direct taxes imposed on the CNG stations, on to the ...
16 Afghans die in American airstrike
ASADABAD - An Afghan provincial governor said Saturday 16 civilians including women, children and doctors were killed in ...
Ministry directed to prepare summary on OGRA Ord
ISLAMABAD - Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shah Mehmood Qureshi has directed the ministry to prepare a ...
IHK shrine fire sparks massive protest
SRINAGAR - At least 30 people were injured in clashes with police after thousands of angry protestors gathered outside a ...
Bush's speech interrupted by protesters
WASHINGTON - Anti-war protesters repeatedly interrupted US President George W Bush's Independence Day speech Friday in ...
Police foil terror plot
QUETTA - Quetta police on Saturday foiled a terrorism attempt by defusing a bomb, which was planted on a motorbike at Meezan ...
Leadership brings heavy responsibilities, says Kayani
KARACHI - Chief of Army staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that senior military leadership brings with it heavy ...
Pakistan regrets Indian use of force
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Saturday expressed regret over the use of force against the Kashmiri leaders in Srinagar by the Indian ...
Govt clarifies conversion of death penalty into life term
ISLAMABAD - A spokesman of Pakistan government has clarified that federal cabinet, during it's meeting in Karachi on July ...
Taliban release journalists
GHILANAI - Local Taliban here Saturday freed two journalists and a local tribesman who was kidnapped from Zairat area in ...
Entertainment
Forget crop circles, this incredible sand drawing spans three miles of desert
SPIRALLING off across the Nevada desert, these huge geometric shapes are an amazing three miles in diameter. Created using ...
Man beheads Hitler waxwork
A man raced into Berlin's Madame Tussauds wax museum Saturday and ripped the head off a waxwork of Adolf Hitler, police said. ...
Pringles 'are not potato crisps'
PRINGLES, the popular snack food in a tube, are not potato crisps, a High Court judge has ruled. Their packaging, "unnatural ...
Japanese sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat
TOKYO - Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110-day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Analysis of body's metabolism sheds new light on the question: Healthy or diseased?
SCIENTISTS from the Institute for Bioinformatics and Systemic Biology of the Helmholtz Zentrum Mnnchen and the Faculty for ...
Is Miley the next Madonna?
MILEY Cyrus is setting her sights high these days. She's already built herself an empire at the age of 15, but she's not stopping ...
Islamabad
Heavy rain claims two lives in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI - The flood in Leh Nullah after heavy rain on Saturday inundated half of the city and forced the people to leave their ...
'The only difference: fee raised from Rs 35 to 250'
ISLAMABAD - After a period of one year, 34 FG primary schools converted into Islamabad Model Schools by the Federal Directorate ...
Outbreak of seasonal diseases likely
ISLAMABAD - With the recent heavy spell of pre-monsoon rains in the twin cities, fear of outbreak of seasonal diseases, ...
National Engineering Robotics Contest
RAWALPINDI - National Engineering Robotics Contest 2008 was held on Saturday organised by STEM Career Project, HEC and NUST at ...
Extravagant expenditures on CDA head office renovation
ISLAMABAD - It was for the third time on Saturday that CDA's Head Office witnessed complete outage of electricity due to the ...
Nomad opens 'Summer Art Show'
ISLAMABAD - The 'Summer Art Show' presenting the art works of various emerging and established artists opened here Saturday ...
National
Even record in the final matches
The final of the ninth Asia Cup will be played between India and Sri Lanka at National Stadium Karachi on Sunday (July 6). The ...
Karachi
The rain in Spain
According to the lyrics of the popular song from My Fair Lady, the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain, but in Pakistan, the ...
President, Nazim slammed for statements against PPP
KARACHI - Pakistan Peoples Party has strongly reacted over the statement of Karachi City Nazim Mustafa Kamal against the top ...
It was Kamal's personal opinion: MQM
KARACHI - MQM Rabita Committee has disowned CDGK Nazim Mustafa Kamal comments about the PPP top leadership adding that CDGK ...
Sindh Rangers asked to assist police in law enforcement
KARACHI - The Interior Ministry has directed Sindh Rangers to assist the police in the maintenance of peace on main highways and ...
Shahbaz Sharif asks Musharraf to step down
KARACHI - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan made by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah could ...
Pakistan Railways denies overcharging allegations
KARACHI - Pakistan Railways Karachi Division officials on Saturday denied the news item published in local newspapers regarding ...
KBCA set to demolish buildings
Karachi - Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) has finally decided to demolish the illegal floors of developing high-rises ...
Sri Lanka pin hopes on Mendis
KARACHI - India would be taking on defending champions Sri Lanka here at the National Stadium on Sunday afternoon in the day and ...
Dr Ashraf takes charge as ACC chief today
KARACHI - PCB chairman Dr nasim ashraf will take charge as head of the Asian Cricket Council from Sri Lankan boss Arjuna ...
Tough to predict who will win in final: Malik
KARACHI - Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik predicted a cracker of an Asia Cup final on Sunday between India and Sri Lanka but ...
Indian team leaves media high and dry
KARACHI - The Indian cricket team on Saturday gave the mediapersons a miss as they left for the hotel after finishing their ...
A close contest is on cards
India v Sri Lanka, Karachi Asia Cup 2008 Final The two best teams of the tournament have qualified for the 2008 Asia Cup ...
Lahore
Call made for external audit of Arts Council
LAHORE - Chairman Lahore Arts Council Shaukat Ali Shah has accused LAC's Executive Director Syed Asghar Gillani of gross ...
Woman gives birth to quadruplets
LAHORE - A woman gave birth to four babies in a local hospital at Multan Road on Saturday. Two of the babies were reported males ...
LHC directs timely issuance of roll-number slips
LAHORE - Justice Ali Akbar Qureshi of the Lahore High Court has asked the intermediate boards and the educational institutions to ...
Qari Mumtaz lauds NPT's Aghi Programme
LAHORE - The Patron-in-Chief of Jamia Sayyidna Siddique Akbar Allama Qari Mumtaz Hussain Siddiqi has said that Nazria Pakistan ...
200 daily wages employees of PU regularised
LAHORE - Punjab University has regularised the services of about 200 daily wages employees serving for the last several years and ...
PPP leaders pay rich tributes to ZA Bhutto
LAHORE-The Pakistan People's Party observed Black Day on July 5 (Saturday) as a token of protest against the overthrow of of late ...
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