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 Friday, June 13, 2008
Front Page
Lawyers march on Parliament
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - Lawyers fraternity, political parties and the civil society are set to stage a peaceful show of power just opposite the Parliament House here at the parade ground today to press for the reinstatement of the deposed judges. The event follows a 'long march' mammoth ...
Taxation measures alarm businessmen
LAHORE- The Lahore Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Thursday expressed their grave concern over the Federal budget ...
Musharraf unhappy over sparse media coverage
ISLAMABAD - Presidential Spokesman Rashid Qureshi Thursday called on Information Minister Sherry Rehman and conveyed his concerns ...
Govt has roadmap to strengthen judiciary
KARACHI - PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that the PPP-led government is facing difficulty in having smooth relations ...
International
Corruption hits Asia's poor the hardest: UN
UNITED NATIONS: - Pervasive corruption is a stranglehold on the lives of the Asia-Pacific region's poor, limiting their access to ...
US-Europe unity must to defeat terrorism: Bush
ROME - US President George W Bush, on a legacy-shaping farewell trip to Europe, predicted Thursday that his successor in January ...
British Muslim lawyers tackle forced marriages 'crisis'
LONDON - British Muslim lawyers said Thursday they had decided to take matters into their own hands with a radical plan to combat ...
India again pushing for permanent UNSC seat
UNITED NATIONS - India is again pushing to realise its burning ambition to secure a permanent seat on the UN Security Council ...
Gaza fighters bombard Israel after deadly blast
GAZA CITY - Palestinian fighters bombarded southern Israel on Thursday after a Hamas commander's house in northern Gaza was blown ...
Nepal Maoists warn deposed king to keep out of politics
KATHMANDU - Nepal's Maoists on Thursday told ousted king Gyanendra to stay out of politics, the day after he left his sprawling ...
Gaddafi slams Barack Obama
TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi on Wednesday criticised Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama for saying that ...
21/7 plotter's wife gets 15 years jail
LONDON - The wife of one of the failed 2005 London suicide bombers was jailed for 15 years Thursday, after being found ...
Tornadoes kill six in US
WASHINGTON - A rash of tornadoes tore through central US states late Wednesday, killing six people including four teenage boys ...
UK official suspended
LONDON - A senior British civil servant, who was not identified, at the centre of a police investigation into misplaced top ...
Assad to make maiden visit to India
DAMASCUS8 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad travels next week to India on a maiden visit and the first by a Syrian head of state ...
Buoyant India cut B'desh down to size
DHAKA - India cruised to a comprehensive seven-wicket win against Bangladesh in their tri-nation series on Thursday at the ...
Rana advises players to adjust with conditions
DHAKA - Pakistan selection committee member Shafqat Rana has advised the team to adapt to the conditions and have consultations ...
Pakistan official not to join team in Dhaka
DHAKA - The Commercial Counsellor of the Pakistan High Commission to Dhaka Rubina Taufeeq Shah has expressed her inability to ...
Nadal bracing for Wimbledon challenge
LONDON - Rafael Nadal insists there is no chance that his French Open thrashing of Roger Federer will quench his thirst for ...
Injured Bartoli in doubt for Wimbledon
BIRMINGHAM - Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli has admitted fearing she could miss Wimbledon after aggravating a wrist injury during her ...
Turks break Swiss hearts
BASEL (Switzerland) - Arda Turan ended Switzerland's interest in Euro 2008 in heartbreaking fashion as a last-minute breakaway ...
Ronaldo happy as Portugal on verge of quarters
GENEVA (Switzerland) - Portugal's play-maker Cristiano Ronaldo hit a second-half goal to all but book his side's Euro 2008 ...
Business
Consumers' sufferings continue as inflation goes up again
ISLAMABAD - The woes of consumers continue to remain high as the average raise in the prices of essential items based on Consumer ...
Volatile behaviour of market likely to continue
LAHORE - Political situation on Thursday kept the investors at distance as market failed to respond aggressively to the positive ...
Punjab urges federal govt to import 2.5m tons wheat
LAHORE- The Punjab province, considered as a mainstay of Pakistan's agriculture, has asked the federal government to immediately ...
Pakistan budget to have no rating impact, says S&P
STANDARD & Poor's Ratings Services said Pakistan's 2009 fiscal year budget is broadly in line with expectations and has no ...
Poor suffer as Asia beset by petty corruption
JAKARTA - A few hundred baht here, a few thousand rupees there a major UN report released Thursday said "petty corruption" is a ...
Aptma sees some grey areas of budget
KARACHI-All Pakistan Textile Mills Association has termed that the federal budget of FY2008-09 is balanced budget and supported ...
Islamabad-Manchester route
KARACHI - Airblue's operation to Manchester, which completed one year on May 31, contributed to market growth of 49.28 per cent ...
Iran to withdraw import duty on Pakistani rice
ISLAMABAD - Iran has decided to withdraw import duty on Pakistani rice to facilitate the increase in rice imports from Pakistan. ...
Plan to raise PSM capacity to 3m tons
ISLAMABAD - Under a comprehensive programme, it is planned to enhance the capacity of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) by more than 100 ...
Rupee at 10-day high vs dollar
KARACHI - Rupee on Thursday soared to 10-day high against the US dollar following increases in interest rates on several ...
Cement price raised by Rs15
ISLAMABAD - Cement factories have increased the price of cement by Rs15 per bag on the basis of a nominal raise in excise ...
Politics
US airstrike strains ties with Pakistan: US media
WASHINGTON: - A deadly U.S. airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops on the border with Afghanistan has dealt a new ...
Future raid to be retaliated, says Mukhtar
KARACHI - Minister for Defence Ch Ahmed Mukhtar has denounced the attack on Pakistani soldiers by NATO forces, terming it ...
Taliban vow to avenge US airstrike
TALIBAN militants on Thursday pledged to take revenge for the US airstrike that destroyed a Pakistani army post near the Afghan ...
US invites Pakistan to join attack probe
BRUSSELS - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates invited Pakistan Thursday to join an investigation into an airstrike that ...
APDM, lawyers vow not to accept PCO judges
ISLAMABAD- Denouncing the raise in Supreme Court judges' strength through financial bill, APDM leaders and lawyers' top brass on ...
US SC deals blow to Bush on Gitmo rights
WASHINGTON - Inmates at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison have constitutional rights and may seek release in US court, the ...
Pakistan and India to consider another train
NEW DELHI - In order to raise two-way trade, India and Pakistan will discuss next week proposals for increasing the frequency of ...
Taseer sees failure of lawyers' long march
FAISALABAD - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer Thursday maintained that the long march has been flopped at its initial stage. He ...
More troops to stem fighters' flow: US
BRUSSELS - Coalition forces will suffer more casualties and take longer to secure Afghanistan's lawless border with ...
Ruckus during IHC proceedings
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Sardar Mohammad Aslam here Thursday took strong notice of the unwanted ...
Another US air attack on Waziristan
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN -US aircrafts violated Pakistan air space and launched another air strike in the South Waziristan tribal region, ...
Plea against Shahbaz Sharif dismissed
ISLAMABAD - A three-member Supreme Court bench Thursday dismissed an election petition against Punjab Chief Minister Mian ...
Malik stopped at Diplomatic Enclave
ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik was stopped by the security officials of Diplomatic ...
JUI-F to wage jihad against US
CHARSADDAH - Strongly condemning US air raids in Mohmand Agency, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-F on Thursday staged a protest ...
Entertainment
Memoir coming from Madonna's brother
THE mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July ...
Man sets fire to his cash
A man has been sentenced to community service for torching a pile of cash at his home. Leo Casey set fire to thousands of ...
Vitamin D: New way to treat heart failure?
STRONG bones, a healthy immune system, protection against some types of cancer: Recent studies suggest there's yet another item ...
Don't mess with Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise doesn't let things get past him. He had his lawyers hit back at Dr. Drew Pinksy who claimed that Tom is crazy for ...
Stripped of planet status, Pluto saves face
PARIS - Two years after Pluto was struck from the planetary A-list and downgraded to "dwarf-planet" status, the ninth rock ...
Islamabad
Pakistan promises maximum security for Champions Trophy
ISLAMABAD - An International Cricket Council official said Thursday that Pakistan's government had made stringent security ...
Warm welcome awaits marchers in Capital
ISLAMABAD- Islamabad city, once called by the foreign ambassadors and journalists as the 'Concrete Islands', having no signs of ...
What happened when little Zohaib got injured?
Since the creation of Pakistan till now, almost all the politicians either in power corridors or opposition keep on making lofty ...
All major hospitals put on high alert
ISLAMABAD - The government put on high alert all the major hospitals on the eve of the mega show, today (Friday) of lawyers, ...
Mother appeals to PM, CM for arrest of daughter's killers
ISLAMABAD - Bashiran Bibi, dweller of district Nankana, has pleaded Prime Minster Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani and Chief Minster ...
Route of long march divided in 5 sectors
RAWALPINDI - Chief Traffic Officer Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Dr Usman Anwar has said that the route of lawyers' long ...
Govt devises uplift plan for neglected areas, says Kundi
ISLAMABAD- Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Khan Kundi has said that the government has chalked out a comprehensive ...
Panel formed to review govt policy on FATA
ISLAMABAD - PILDAT has constituted a Citizens' Policy Panel on FATA in order to produce non-partisan and independent policy ...
Karachi
Human trafficking on the rise in Pakistan
KARACHI - The coastal belt from Karachi to Balochistan is still a paradise for human traffickers as the route to Iran is being ...
People take to streets against loadshedding
KARACHI - Violent riots continued on Thursday at various localities in the metropolis against power outage as Karachiites have ...
Benazir Income Support Programme 'insufficient'
KARACHI - Even though it is premature to asses the desired output of the Benazir Support Programme but given the prevalent ...
Altaf reiterates support to PPP
KARACHI - MQM leader Altaf Hussain has assured PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other ...
Duty on mobiles serves as windfall for dealers
KARACHI - Mobile phone dealers and shopkeepers have started fleecing the consumers by charging additional amount ranging between ...
Pragmatic efforts can solve Palestine issue
KARACHI - There is a need for pragmatic, balanced and neutral involvement for the resolution of the Kashmir issue. This was ...
PWU wins Steel Mills' landmark referendum
KARACHI - Pakistan Steel Mills referendum has been won by the People's Workers Union (PWU) with thumbing majority here on ...
Lahore
Controversial end to a controversial stint
SALIM ALTAF'S controversial stint with the Pakistan Cricket Board came to a controversial end. He was fired by the PCB chief over ...
PCB fires Salim Altaf
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board sacked one of its top official Thursday following accusations of leaking a confidential email ...
Movement close to success, says Iftikhar
LAHORE - Deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said lawyers are close to achieving success in their ...
Seniority issues, fire eruption
LAHORE - The Principal of Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) Prof Dr Faisal Masood is likely to be transferred within ...
Package meant to buckle up PCO judges: Lawyers
LAHORE - Lawyers have rejected the Constitutional package terming it 'the most ill-conceived' piece of proposed legislation and a ...
PA Speaker assured he would not be replaced
LAHORE-Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal has been assured by party high ups that he won't be replaced by PML-N Punjab ...
Govt committed to enrol every child to school by 2010
LAHORE - The Punjab government, according to maiden speech of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, is committed to enrolling every ...
2 minors dead in road mishaps
LAHORE - Two minors were killed in separate road mishaps in the city on Thursday. Reportedly, a 7-year-old minor Ahmad Hassan ...
Muggy weather causes people to sweat
LAHORE - The City received scattered rain on Thursday with experts predicting partly cloudy weather with chances of dust raising ...
Abolition of self-finance scheme hailed
LAHROE - Students seeking admission in the various medical colleges have welcomed the decision of newly elected Chief Minister ...
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