Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Terror trial of accused Bali bomber starts Monday
The Nation in print for Monday, July 07, 2008
Front Page
Suicide bombers return
ISLAMABAD -" A suicide attack targeting the police force here on Sunday at the Melody Chowk killed at least 19 people and left over 40 others injured. However, according to the government officials the death toll was eight and the figure of the injured was put at 26. The blast, described ...
Khyber comes to life again
PESHAWAR - Upon the request of 35-member jirga of Afridi tribesmen, the Political Administration of Khyber Agency Sunday ...
Power tariff to shoot up to Rs18 per unit by June next
KARACHI - The consumers must be ready to face major electricity shocks in 2008-09. By June 2009, the minimum tariff of ...
Militants kill driver, abduct 12 passengers
KURRAM AGENCY - One person was killed and 12 others were abducted when some armed persons attacked a passenger bus here on ...
International
Rains trigger flash floods, landslides in South Asia
20 dead, 20,000 left marooned in B'desh: 50,000 displaced and thousands of homes washed away in India: 14 die in China ...
Rich nations poised to tackle soaring oil, food prices
TOYAKO, Japan, - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the ...
Obama struggles to thread needle on Iraq
WASHINGTON - After months vowing to get US troops home from Iraq, Barack Obama has succumbed to the war's political ...
Israel enforces curfew in West Bank village
JERUSALEM - Israel enforced a curfew in the West Bank village of Nilin on Sunday after dozens of people were wounded in ...
Island blanketed with security
TOYAKO - More than 20,000 police on Sunday sealed a secluded mountain resort in northern Japan as the world's top leaders ...
Sri Lanka activists organising media boycott of Saarc summit
COLOMBO - Media activists in Sri Lanka are organising a boycott of the upcoming South Asian summit in Colombo in protest at ...
Graft probe against Olmert spreads to US
JERUSALEM - Israeli police have sent two senior investigators to the United States to expand a corruption probe linked to ...
Iranian film angers Sadat family
CAIRO - The family of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat has threatened to sue the Iranian producers of a documentary ...
US wanted to test sarin on Australian troops
SYDNEY - The United States military wanted to test deadly nerve gases on Australian troops in a remote area of far north ...
S Arabia and Qatar move to seal relations
JEDDAH - Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia and Qatar are to demarcate their border and set up a joint council to develop relations ...
Politics
Sri Lanka crush India to lift Asia Cup
KARACHI - Twenty-four years old Ajantha Mendis known for his fastish slow spin ran through much-vaunted Indian bating order ...
Asif Zardari respects Nawaz
ISLAMABAD - The comments of Pakistan People's Party Co-Chairman Senator Asif Ali Zardari about Kargil have been taken out of ...
Eight killed in Karachi building collapse
KARACHI - At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured when a dilapidated three-storey building collapsed in Baldia ...
Nadal ends Federer reign at Wimbledon
LONDON - Rafael Nadal beat defending champion Roger Federer in five sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles title on ...
US, Japan for action on oil, food prices ahead of G8 meet
TOYAKO - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the ...
UAE waives $7 billion Iraq debt
ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it was waiving Iraq's debt of nearly seven billion dollars and also ...
US bombs hit Afghan wedding party
JALALABAD - An Afghan district governor said nearly two dozen civilians, most of them women and children, were killed Sunday when ...
Taseer leaves for Dubai to meet Zardari
PUNJAB Governor Salmaan Taseer arrived in Karachi on Sunday for a brief stopover. Provincial Law Minister, Ayaz Soomro received ...
Opec sees no end to oil price rise
ALGIERS - OPEC President Chakib Khelil warned Sunday that oil prices will continue to rise because of the falling dollar, ...
Rain interrupts Wimbledon final in fifth set
LONDON - Play in the Wimbledon men's singles final was interrupted by rain for a second time on Sunday with the match ...
Pak-India talks on CBMs to be held on 10th
NEW DELHI - Pakistan and India will discuss to launch new Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in occupied Kashmir in a ...
Cop shot dead in Khuzdar
Quetta - Four people including a police head constable were killed and seven others injured in different incidents of firing and ...
Entertainment
Music went with cave art in pre-historic caves
THOUSANDS of years later, we can view stone-age art on cave walls, but we can't listen to the stone-age music that would have ...
US man makes balloon chair trip
AN American man has succeeded at the third attempt in making a 235-mile (378km) trip in an armchair held aloft by party balloons. ...
Mining for molecules in the milky way
SCIENTISTS are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky ...
John Mayer spreads lies about himself
THAT John Mayer is such a class act. He says he's so sick of reading false stories about him, he's just going to start ...
Britney not romantically involved with Adnan
EARLIER this week there were rumors going around that Britney Spears was once again in contact with her paparazzi ex-boyfriend ...
Cruise takes the family for an Independence Day outing
TOM Cruise showed his patriotic side as he took his family on an Independence Day outing in Telluride, Colorado. The Hollywood ...
Islamabad
World Allergy Day tomorrow
ISLAMABAD - The World Allergy Day would be observed throughout the Globe including Pakistan tomorrow (Tuesday). The theme of ...
Inaugural ceremony today: Leh flood forecasting system
RAWALPINDI - An inauguration ceremony of the project for 'Nullah Leh flood forecasting and warning system would be held ...
Foreigners also feel the price hike pinch
ISLAMABAD - Not only locals but foreigners too are irked with the plethora of problems in the Capital. An exclusive survey ...
'Self-sufficiency in energy vital for progress'
ISLAMABAD The growing energy crisis is badly affecting the business activities and contributing to rising inflation in the ...
Conference on Hazrat Ali on 15th
ISLAMABAD - Markazi Imam Hussain Council would arrange the birthday Hazrat Ali (RA) conference on July 15 at a local hotel ...
Illegal detention: FIR lodged against SHO, two ASIs for
ISLAMABAD - Federal Capital Police Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against an SHO and two ASIs for illegal ...
Karachi
DUHS reluctant to admit disabled girl
KARACHI - Despite the approval of the medical board, the administration of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Karachi is ...
Revival of KCR must to clear transport mess in City
KARACHI - It is human nature and bureaucratic hallmark to expect very difficult, intricate and complicated solutions to big ...
SSUET presents growth- oriented budget
KARACHI - The 33rd meeting of the Board of Governors of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology presented a ...
Governor, Shazia condole deaths in building mishap
KARACHI - Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad and provincial minister for Information Shazia Marri on Sunday expressed deep ...
CM orders probe into tragic incident
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Sunday called for report from the Karachi Building Control Authority ...
Pak Air Force certificate distribution ceremony
KARACHI - The award of Fellow of Air War College (FAWC) certificates distribution ceremony was held here at Air War College, ...
Lahore
Complaints pile up at CM's open court
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif sought prompt reports regarding illegal occupations, abductions, murders and ...
Clash over sale of substandard food items: Gulshan-e-Ravi Sunday Bazaar closed for shoppers
LAHORE - Following a record surge in the oil prices, the rates of vegetables and fruit shot up in Sunday Bazaars as compared to ...
The spitting image of embarrassment (City Notes)
This week, it would not be polite to talk of anything but the War on Terror, for after all Islamabad received a visitor, even ...
RM's diary (Buk-Up)
Ever since we came into power this time, I haven't slept for a single hour. I had been sleeping for hours and hours instead. ...
Security beefed up after Islamabad blast
LAHORE - Following suicide blast in Islamabad, the city was put on high alert with intensified patrolling and deployment of ...
JI rejects PPP-sponsored package
LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami has rejected the PPP government's proposed constitutional package for the restoration of judges, ...
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