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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

No ice melts on Siachen

NEW DELHI (Agencies) India and Pakistan failed on Tuesday to agree on how to demilitarise the worlds highest battlefield in the Himalayan region in a sign of how far apart the nuclear-armed rivals are even on less contentious issues. Defence secretaries from both countries held two days of ...


Regional News

No Tobacco Day observed

FAISALABAD - Non-smokers alleged smokers to violate the law of complete ban on tobacco usage in public places on World No Tobacco Day held here on Tuesday. Public, especially the non-smokers ...

SNYCs a step towards drug-free Pakistan

WAZIRABAD - Shaheed Naveed Younis Centres (SNYCs) for the rehabilitation of addicts are being expanded to the national level to make Pakistan a drug-free state. Mohammad Sohail Younus, President Drug ...

Anti-smoking rally

VEHARI - The Members of the Society for Empowerment of People and the Collation for Tobacco Control on Tuesday took out a rally on the occasion of the World Tobacco Day to create anti-smoking ...

Tobacco can kill 8m annually by 2030

Faisalabad - Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people worldwide every year, a figure that could rise if countries dont take stronger measures to combat smoking. In Pakistan 45 % people are tobacco ...

Schools cry foul at govt apathy

SIALKOT - Lying closed for the last many years, the Government Boys Primary School Bharokay Khurd, Daska presents a deserted look without students and the two teachers who, in connivance with the ...

PPP activist stopped from condoling

JHELUM - The Pakistan Peoples Partys old stalwart, who wanted to condole with President Zardari over his fathers death, was stopped to enter the Presidents House. Abdul Rashid told the media that ...

Police seize drugs, arms

NANKANA SAHIB - The police recovered a huge quantity of charas and illegal weapons from two women here the other day. On a tip-off, the police raided the house of Safiran Bibi, a resident of Chawk ...

Warraich questions Nawazs 'rabble-rousing

MULTAN - PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich has said that PML-N Nawaz Sharif never revolted against dictators but he declared rebellion against a democratically elected government. The ...

Power supply to PR stations suspended

KHANEWAL - Electricity supply to most of the stations in the jurisdiction of divisional superintendent (DS) railways Multan has disconnected by the respective Mepco sub divisions, due to non-payment. ...

Police nab kidnapper

RAHIM YAR KHAN - The district police claimed to have arrested a hardened criminal of a kidnappers gang who has been kidnapped six persons for ransom. DPO Sohail Habib Tajik while addressing a press ...

Rescue 1122 conducts mock drills

SIALKOT - The Rescue 1122 officials and various NGO personnel conducted flood-fighting exercises here on Tuesday near Head Marala in River Chenab. The training personnel of Rescue 1122 Sialkot, NGO ...

'Public paying through nose for wrong policies

OKARA - The wrong policies and blunders of a dictator have resulted in turning every inch of the country into a battle field. By accepting the American slavery we have earned nothing except the shame ...

Mother, sister killed 'for honour

SARGODHA - A person gunned down his mother and sister in the name of honour in Chak No 141 on Tuesday. Sajjad Ali had been suspecting his sister of illicit relations. Today, he opened fire on Asia ...

Principal accused of sodomy

SARGODHA - Scores of irate people thrashed the principal of a private cadet coaching academy allegedly for sodomising his minor pupils while during the incident his daughter opened fire with pistol ...

APCA clamours against govt apathy

MULTAN - The members of All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) staged a protest rally against price hike and denial of raise in their salaries here on Tuesday. The rally started from the Forest ...

Workshop on gender mainstreaming

NANKANA SAHIB - A training programme on 'Gender Mainstreaming & Gender Budgeting was organised by GRAP Nankana for district governments officers and NGOs representatives at District Counsel Hall. ...

Bicycle stolen

ARIFWALA - The bicycle of the son of The Nation staff reporter was stolen. Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim s/o Mohammad Abrar of R/O 2 A Fareedia Colony went to buy remote control of his TV at Shakeel ...

MSM protests absence of hepatitis vaccine

MULTAN - The activists of Muttahida Shehri Mahaaz staged a protest against non-availability of Hepatitis C vaccine in Nishtar and other hospitals of Multan here at Chowk Katchery on Tuesday. Dozens ...

Security reviewed for Jor Mela

NANKANA SAHIB - The district government held a meeting to review security and other arrangements ahead of the arrival about 500 Sikh pilgrims here on June 10 to participate in Jor Mela The meeting ...

Commander witnesses exercises

BAHAWALPUR - Corps Commander Lt Gen Muhammad Haroon Aslam witnessed the troops engaged in the annual training exercises in Cholistan Desert. He was briefed about the aim and objectives of the ...

Five charged with corruption

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Gujranwala DCO Nabil Ahmed Awan has suspended five employees of the Food Department after they were declared to have misappropriated Rs700,000. Assistant Food Controller Mushtaq ...

Sitara-i-Basalat for PNS martyrs

SIALKOT - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has announced Sitara-i-Basalat for Narowal-based Muhammad Khalil and Muhammad Akhtar, who were martyred in a massive terrorism act at PNS Karachi. He ...

Indians leave behind liquor

OKARA - Two smugglers from India entered Pakistani territory and managed to escape after leaving behind dozens of bottles of liquor. Sources said at Saander check post that the Rangers were on duty ...

Prices go unchecked at Sunday, Friday bazaars

SIALKOT - A few people visited Friday and Sunday bazaars as expensive items of daily use are out of the reach of common man. Along with conventional markets, the buyers told TheNation that the prices ...

PML-N serving masses

OKARA - PML-N MPA Mian Yawar Zaman has warned that if any conspiracy is hatched against the Punjab government the centre will also stand vulnerable. Under the leadership of Punjab Chief Minister ...

Lawyers observe strike

NANKANA SAHIB - The Nankana Bar Council observed a complete strike against the withdrawal of free medical facility for lawyers and kidnapping of Advocate Asghar Ali for ransom in Sadiqabad. All the ...

Lawyers boycott Arifwala courts

ARIFWALA - The Arifwala Bar Council boycotted court proceedings against withdrawal of free medical facility for lawyers at the public sector hospitals in the Punjab on the Punjab Bar Councils ...

Touts rule the roost in passport office

SIALKOT - The people of Sialkot have protested against lack of facilities at Regional Passport Office, saying to get passports without spending money by greasing the palm of the agents in and around ...

Ramay comes down hard on Babar Awan

SAHIWAL - Coming down hard on former federal law minister Babar Awan for his statement against the PML-N chief, former parliamentary secretary Mian Anwarul Haq Ramay claimed on Tuesday that the party ...

Need stressed for creating tolerance

HAFIZABAD - The speakers at a seminar held under the Liberal Forum Pakistan have stressed the need for creating tolerance among the masses to bring about real peace in the society. Retired Principal ...

Walk held to mark No Tobacco Day

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Smoking can be fatal. But our youth is becoming addict to smoking rapidly which is a dangerous trend. If today proper measures are not taken to overcome this evil the results will be ...

Youth urged to materialise ideas with actions

FAISALABAD - Speakers at a seminar called for educating and polishing innovative and entrepreneurial skills among the youth as 70 percent of the total population of the country is lying under the age ...

Man, wife, 2 others killed in incidents

SIALKOT - Four people were killed in separate incidents including a murder of husband by his wife and another vice versa in the district during the last 24 hours. In the first incident took place in ...

Free medical camp held

OKARA Under the Qaumi and Smaji Tehreek MADA organisation a daylong free medical camp was held here on Benazir Road. The doctors examined 103 patients at the camp and provided them with free ...

Student arrested

NANKANA SAHIB - The student who brought material in examination hall for cheating and ran away with his answer sheet, was arrested on Tuesday. Examiner/Invigilator SST Muhammad Nawaz at Shah Kot ...

Join war on foreign aid, CM tells youth

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has made an appeal to the youth and the students to play a leading role in the war against all sort of foreign aid that hurts our national ...

Court for providing witnesses statement to Moonis counsel

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A Special Banking Offences Court on Tuesday directed prosecution to provide copies of witnesses statements and challan to the counsel for PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi, ...

Punjab, Khorasan sign MoU for trade

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A memorandum of understanding was signed between Punjab government and Iranian province Khorasan for cooperation in various sectors. The signing ceremony took place at the ...

LHC summons govt for not implementing Healthcare Act

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court has summoned Punjab govt for not implementing the healthcare care act. Chief Justice Lahore High Court Ijaz Chaudhry initiated hearing of the case. ...

GCU passes resolution to break beggars bowl

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The talented youth of the Government College University on Tuesday passed a resolution after a heated debate that Pakistan ought to break the begging bowl and embark on ...

Court killings strike to continue, CM told

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A lawyers delegation led by Lahore Bar Association President Shahzad Hassan Sheikh met Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and warned that they would continue their strike until ...

'Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan can oust foreign powers

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A high-level delegation of Iranian Province Khorasan Razvi, led by Governor Dr Mahmoud Salahi, visited the Punjab University and met Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran ...

Judge moves on wastage of electricity

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice, taking alarm of the acute power shortage in the country, has passed strict instructions to the court staffers to conserve electricity ...

Awareness seminars for No-Smoking Day

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Like other parts of the globe, the 'World No Tobacco Day was observed across the country, including the City, on Tuesday, with the purpose of raising public awareness ...

Terrorits may be heading to City

LAHORE After successful operations executed by the cobra operatives of the American CIA and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in Abbottabad and PNS Mehran, respectively, several threats have been received ...

Lesco over-bills consumers to pay for power pilferers

LAHORE - Over-billing has become a permanent headache for the consumers of Lahore Electric Supply Company, as hundreds have to visit the consumers complaint centres and offices concerned of XENs and ...

MML to run in polls under new alliance

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Leaders of Muttahida Muslim League have announced that they will contest next polls from the platform of Four-Muslim League alliance, while other likeminded political ...

Punjab officers reject new promotion policy

LAHORE The Punjab government is in the process of implementing the promotion policy, which is being deemed anti-employee by the civil servants of the Punjab government, who maintain that the policy ...

Nation proud of its forces, says ex-CM

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Senior Federal Minister, Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi lauding the sacrifices of the countrys defenders to protect Mehran Base said that the nation was proud of its ground, air ...

Budget death or life for rulers: Imran

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE- Masses will push rulers out of powers if they remain fail to provide them relief in the upcoming budget as country has been devastated regarding sovereignty and integrity ...

Jamil Fakhri fighting for life

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Legendary TV artists Jamil Fakhri was admitted to Mayo Hospital due to severe paralysis attack here on Tuesday. The actor is in serious condition at Intensive Care Unit of ...

Heatwave claims three more lives in Lahore

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Three people were killed in different parts of the City due to sizzling heat, police and rescue workers said on Tuesday. A 55-year-old pedestrian died shortly after he ...

Two killed

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Two people were murdered in as many incidents in different parts of the City on Tuesday, police said. A resident of Shahdra, Muhammad Asif was found unconscious lying ...

Security plan for courts

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE In the wake of serious security problems inside and outside the court premises, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Tuesday directed Inspector General of ...

No alms to professional beggars, please

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The City Traffic Police have claimed to have arrested 57 beggars, who were putting hurdles in the smooth flow of traffic while begging at signals and important roads in ...

PhD degree awarded

LAHORE (PR) Muhammad Razzaq Athar s/o Muhammad Shafi has been awarded PhD degree in Human Resource Development by National University of Modern Languages (NUML). He has completed his thesis under ...

Honest leadership need of hour: Qamar

LAHORE Some elements are playing a gruesome game of disgracing the whole Pak Army ignoring the fact that our brave solders are not only defending the geographical boundaries but also Pakistan ...

Culture and society

Lahore - In the 20th century, culture emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics but a result of interaction with one ...

Salahi stresses to enhance economic, cultural relations

OUR STAFF REPORTR LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa hosted a dinner reception in honour of his Iranian counterpart from Khorasan Dr. Mahmoud Salahi and his entourage at the Governor House ...

Asma condemns killing of journalist

OUR STAFF REPOPRTER LAHOREPresident, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir has strongly condemned the mysterious killing of renowned journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad after he was ...

Students visit Aiwan

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The students of the Bright Forces School System Chowk Jahnda and Government Middle School Dugage Village on Aghi Programme on Tuesday visited Aiwan-e-Karkunan ...

'N leaders join PML-Q

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Local leaders of PML-N hailing from PP-153 on Tuesday joined the PML-Q during a Press conference with Ch Zaheerud Din, general secretary PML-Q. Ch Zaheer, on this occasion ...

'Poetry on Canvas to be displayed on 4th

LAHORE Poetry on Canvas, a painting exhibition by famous painter and poet Aslam Kamal, unfolding more meanings of the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, is being organised by the Lahore Museum in ...

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