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 Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Front Page
Govt scraps peace deal with Taliban
RATTLED by a fresh wave of suicide attacks, the government on Monday scrapped a deal signed last month with the Taliban that had been bitterly opposed by the United States and Afghanistan, reports The Times of India. "The Swat agreement is scrapped as the militants have (continued) their attacks ...
Zardari gives 'go ahead' for impeachment
The co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari has held important meetings in Saudi Arabia in which he directed PPP ...
TTP threatens to take fight to Punajb
PESHAWAR (PPI) - The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday warned government if the peace agreement with them was scrapped ...
Ogra okays 30pc hike in gas tariff
LAHORE - The government has decided to allow 7 per cent increase, to be announced by July this year, in the current electricity ...
International
Pakistan want it 13 in a row
MIRPUR (Bangladesh) - Action-starved Pakistan will be going all out against arch-rivals India in their second match of the ...
Podolski ends Germany's long wait
KLAGENFURT (Austria) (AFP) - Polish-born forward Lukas Podolski ended Germany's 12-year wait for a European Championship win on ...
Belgium overwhelm Pakistan in second test
ANTWERP (Belgium) - Belgium continued their winning streak against Pakistan with a 4-2 win in the second hockey Test match at ...
Pakistan want better performance in Ireland
LONDON (APP) - After the dismal performance in Azlan Shah Cup and test matches in Germany and Belgium, Pakistan hockey team ...
Vaughan relishing Flintoff return
NOTTINGHAM (AFP) - England captain Michael Vaughan cannot wait to have star all-rounder Andrew Flintoff back for the Test series ...
Federer hails 'supreme' Nadal
PARIS (AFP) - Roger Federer hailed French Open champion Rafael Nadal as 'supreme' after the Spaniard handed the world number one ...
Disability convention closes major gap in rights protection: UN rights chief
UNITED NATIONS - The recent entry into force of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities closes a major gap ...
Kennedy released from hospital
WASHINGTON - One week after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor, Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading liberal voice ...
Iran warns Iraq over US troops
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned Iraq's visiting prime minister against signing an ...
20 Taliban, 5 police die in Afghan attacks
KABUL (AFP) - Extremist unrest left five Afghan policemen and nearly two dozen Taliban fighters dead Monday, officials said, as ...
Bush begins European tour
LJUBLJANA (AFP) - US President George W. Bush, weakened by the Iraq war and a sour US economy, launched a farewell trip to Europe ...
Hamas ready for talks with Fatah
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Hamas's exiled political chief Khaled Meshaal said his Palestinian movement was ready for dialogue with its ...
Military spending soars 45pc in 10 years; US tops
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - World military spending grew 45 percent in the past decade, with the United States accounting for nearly half ...
Guantanamo interrogators urged to destroy notes
WASHINGTON - The US urged military interrogators at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison to destroy their handwritten notes to ...
Australian soldiers return home from Iraq
SYDNEY (AFP) - The first large group of Australian soldiers to leave Iraq since Canberra announced their withdrawal arrived home ...
Tehran vows painful response to Israeli attack
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Monday vowed a "very painful" response to any Israeli action after a senior minister of the Jewish state ...
Business
Centre reduces Sindh's share to Rs144b in FY08
KARACHI - Out of budget estimate of Rs151 billion in federal transfers in current FY2007-08, the Sindh government has received ...
$123m ejected from stock market in 6 days
KARACHI - Portfolio investment in the Pakistani stock markets witnessed further erosion as the foreign investors remained on the ...
Subsidy on fertilizer to go up
KARCHI - The federal government is likely to increase the subsidy grant for fertilizer sector up to Rs 21 billion in Budget FY09 ...
Loadshedding schedule for industry, tubewells readjusted
LAHORE - The Pakistan Electric Power company (PEPCO) has readjusted the loadshedding schedule for industry and tubewells while ...
Tourists shy away from Pakistan
LAHORE - Tour cancellations have alarmed the stakeholders in tourism industry and hospitality business. The tourism season of ...
Thousands of European truckers join fuel protests
MADRID/MARSEILLE (AFP) - Tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal on Monday stepped up protests against rising ...
Foreign debt up by $5.44 billion
KARACHI - The foreign debt and foreign exchange liabilities of Pakistan have mounted to 45.92 billion dollars by March 2008, ...
Oil dips after record run close to $140
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices dropped more than a dollar on Monday after rocketing to record heights near 140 dollars per barrel late ...
Dollar mixed in European trade
LONDON (AFP) - The dollar fell against the euro but rose versus the yen in European trading on Monday, after the US currency ...
Investors prefer profit booking at available margin
LAHORE - Recovery failed to extend itself due to the lawyers' long March and investors, afraid of any untoward incident, ...
Politics
Nawaz,Imran say restoration of judges must
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan called on PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif in London on Monday and discussed overall ...
Shahbaz gets trust vote
LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif secured vote of confidence on Monday from the Punjab Assembly as 266 ...
Growth below the target
ISLAMABAD - The economic team headed by Finance Minister Syed Naveed Qamar will unfold the financial story of the outgoing year ...
Militants' rise points to US' waste of opportunity: LAT
WASHINGTON - The US government wasted an opportunity to forge alliances with tribal leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border ...
Pakistani film warmly applauded at US festival in Seattle
NEW YORK - "Ramchand Pakistani", a full length feature film from Pakistan, scored another first: after last month's ...
Four cops killed in Peshawar ambush
PESHAWAR- Four policemen were killed and a Station House Officer (SHO) was critically injured when some unknown armed persons ...
IHC dismisses petition over Kalabagh Dam
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Islamabad High Court here Monday dismissed a writ petition over alleged shelving of Kalabagh Dam Project ...
Four children die in Chitral explosion
CHITRAL - At least four children were killed when a high intensity explosive material went off in village Royee near Garam ...
Entertainment
Kung Fu Panda tops US box-office
KUNG Fu Panda has kicked Sex and the City from the top spot of the US box-office, early figures have shown. The animated film ...
Deyn steps out with a copycat companion
IF imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, Agyness Deyn must have been just chuffed yesterday during an outing with ...
Obese at just 18 months, the little girl raised on a diet of chips
SHE'S only 18 months old, but Courtney Boswell's diet of chips - and not much else - means she weighs as ...
Winehouse pays to protect hubby in prison
AMY Winehouse is reportedly paying 1,000 per week to keep husband Blake Fielder-Civil safe in prison. The 'Rehab' singer's ...
Jessica Alba gives birth to baby girl
LOS ANGELES - Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren have welcomed a baby girl. Honor Marie Warren was born June 7 in Los ...
Discovery crew completes third and final spacewalk
ASTRONAUTS from the space shuttle Discovery have used their final spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) to exchange ...
Islamabad
Beggars make mockery of government's ban
RAWALPINDI - Despite strict ban imposed on begging in the Rawalpindi district, the beggars are still roaming in the streets and ...
Total Rs 59.54b loans written off
ISLAMABAD- A total of Rs 59,945.17 million loans have been written off during accounting years 1999-2007, Federal Minster for ...
Plagued Mindset screened
ISLAMABAD - "Plagued Mindset", a short documentary on recent incidents of girls given as compensation to end disputes, by Samar ...
Labour ministry set to modernise working pattern
ISLAMABAD (APP) Ministry of Labour and Manpower has worked out a plan to upkeep record on the country's workforce in line with ...
9 sectors of Capital without water
ISLAMABAD (Online)- The unavailability of water in nine main sectors of the Capital is causing enormous inconvenience to the ...
Defending champ Aamir clinches CAS Squash title
ISLAMABAD - Defending champion Aamir Atlas Khan retained his title of the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) International Squash ...
A new era has begun, says PSF chief
ISLAMABAD - President Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) Air Vice Marshall Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed said that Pakistan squash had ...
National
A glance at today's game
Pakistan v India, Mirpur It's a big game. Arch rivals Pakistan and India take on each other and the it could well be a dress ...
Karachi
Lack of funds jeopardises higher education sector
KARACHI - The higher education sector in the country has been threatened by new policies of the present government as nearly 59 ...
Diseases break out in coastal areas
KARACHI - Dangerous diseases are spreading in costal areas from Karachi to Badin, sources told The Nation here on Monday. ...
Crow-eradication drive at Safari Park
KARACHI - Crows, who had made life hell for the animals in Safari Park and Karachi Zoological Garden for the past several years, ...
Pir Pagara sees no restoration of judges
KARACHI - Veteran politician and spiritual leader of Hurs, Pir Pagara on Monday predicted the imposition of 1953-like martial law ...
Hospital nurse held as newborn goes missing
KARACHI - Police have booked a nurse for allegedly kidnapping of a newborn baby from the limit of New Karachi Police limits. ...
Lahore
City resounds with anti-Musharraf slogans
LAHORE - The provincial capital resounded with slogans of 'Go Musharraf Go' played on loudspeakers in cars, buses and motorcycles ...
Deposed judges accept seven-month salaries
LAHORE - The federal government has paid last seven months salaries to deposed judges of the Lahore High Court. All the ...
'Green Tractor Scheme' to be launched again
LAHORE - The Punjab government has proposed reforms in the agriculture, judiciary, law and order and industrial sectors including ...
Ban on LCD screens being violated
LAHORE-Despite complete ban, the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has switched on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen ...
Contract employees to get 30pc social security
LAHORE - The Punjab Government has directed all the local governments in the province to ensure implementation on the amended ...
'N' leaders plan to welcome 'long march' participants
LAHORE - Undecided whether Sharif brothers are participating in long march, PML-N leaders here on Monday announced arrangements ...
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