Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Monday, June 15, 2009
Front Page
Operation against Baitullah ordered
ISLAMABAD - NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani Sunday said the government had finally decided to go all out against the chief of banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Baitullah Mehsud and his cronies and in this connection Army and other law-enforcement agencies were given free hand. Addressing a ...
$4b IMF 'insurance' to cover budget gap
ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin Sunday said that the economy had stepped on revival track and ...
Rush-hour bomb blast kills nine in DI Khan
PESHAWAR - At least nine people, including five children, were killed and 50 others injured when a high-intensity bomb exploded ...
International
Wasim, Waqar my inspiration: Gul
LONDON (AFP) - Record-breaking Pakistan seamer Umar Gul dedicated his five-wicket Twenty20 haul to legendary spearheads Waqar ...
Pakistan raring to have a go at Ireland in 'revenge' match
LONDON (APP)- Pakistan will be more than eager to erase the bitter memories of the 2007 World Cup loss to Ireland when the two ...
Pakistan's World Cup hosting rights hang in the balance
LONDON (AFP) - World cricket chiefs are working out a middle path to resolve the controversy over Pakistan's right to remain ...
PCB set to propose two security plans
MUMBAI - Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt will put two security plans before the ICC members and 2011 World Cup hosting ...
Younus hails Gul, Razzaq
LONDON (AFP) - Pakistan captain Younus Khan lavished rich praise on Abdur Razzaq and Umar Gul after his team roared back into the ...
Vettori foxed by Gul's reverse swing
LONDON (AFP) - New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has raised Pakistani eyebrows by saying he was surprised how seamer Umar Gul ...
Pakistan crash to big defeat against Australia
JOHOR BAHRU - Australia made Pakistan eat their words of packed defence by thrashing them 6-1 as they sneaked in at will in the ...
New Zealand hold Korea to 3-3 draw
SINGAPORE - New Zealand and Korea played a 3-all draw in the Medal round of the World Cup giving an opportunity to Pakistan to ...
Israel backs demilitarised state for Palestinians
RAMAT GAN, Israel, (AFP/Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation ...
Taliban asked to hide among Afghan civilians
HERAT (Reuters) - Taliban fighters have no choice but to hide among civilians while they fight foreign troops in Afghanistan and ...
Carter warns US and Israel on collision course
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is headed for a clash with main ally the United States over the issue of Jewish settlements, former US ...
US could provoke N-war: DPRK
PYONGYANG (Agencies) North Korea has accused the United States of targeting it with nuclear missiles and warned that nuclear war ...
Three women honoured as Afghan 'mothers of the year'
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday honoured three women with the title Mother of the Year, including a posthumous ...
Nine foreigners kidnapped in Yemen
SANAA (AFP) - Nine foreigners, including women and children, have been kidnapped in a volatile mountainous area of northern ...
Most Israelis could live with N-Iran
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Only one in five Israeli Jews believes a nuclear-armed Iran would try to destroy Israel and most see life ...
Nato warship rescues Indian sailors
ON BOARD NRP CORTE-REAL (Reuters) - A Nato warship rescued fourteen Indian sailors off Somalia on Saturday, a day after they were ...
Australia, S Arabia set for new swine flu steps
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia prepared to ratchet up its swine flu alert Sunday and Saudi Arabia made plans to guard against the ...
Al-Qaeda financier arrested in Yemen
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of Al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi ...
West decries 'brutal' Iranian crackdown
WASHINGTON (AFP) - European powers led condemnation of the brutal crackdown that followed the poll. Post-election protests and ...
Politics
US drone strikes after a lull; 5 dead
PESHAWAR - As many as five militants including foreigners were killed when missiles fired from a US drone on Sunday morning ...
Brown assures Zardari of all-out support
ISLAMABAD - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called President Asif Zardari on Sunday and reiterated all-out support of his ...
Punjab minister locks horns with Secy Higher Edu
LAHORE - Take it as a pressure tactics or a protest of one of its own kind that Punjab Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba ...
Tribal warlord vows to take on TTP chief
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Agencies) - A new militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leader ...
Iran reformists arrested after street protests
TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - Iran detained more than 100 reformers including the brother of a former president, a leading reformer said ...
A riddle of growth, inflation
News Analysis ISLAMABAD - Apparently the government has achieved economic stabilization, and has presented ostensibly a smart ...
Russia welcomes new US Pakistan policy
MOSCOW (AFP/Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a three-party meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali ...
Operation not the only option: Saudi envoy
Military operation is only one way to deal with militants while there are other options that can be tried to tackle ...
Suspect of Lahore mosque blast arrested
Lahore (Online) - The law enforcement agencies Sunday arrested a person from Naseerabad area of Balochistan who is allegedly ...
Entertainment
Britney's life is a nightmare: Fox
TRANSFORMERS turned Megan Fox into an overnight star, but she doesnt want to be like Britney Spears. Fox says she sometimes gets ...
Obama finds a new friend in UK's Queen
LONDON (Reuters) - If Michelle Obama ever needs a place to stay in London, she could do worse than call on Queen Elizabeth. The ...
Internet-based therapy found effective
IN a discovery that could lead to new treatment approaches for depression, researchers from the University of New South Wales ...
Sextuplets 'are a gift from God'
The parents of Irelands first set of sextuplets have said they were given the medical option to abort some of the foetuses. Nuala ...
US analog TV is out, digital is in
AFTER a five-month delay, the final deadline for the switch from analog to digital television has arrived. But as many as three ...
Malawi dad gives up fight on Madonnas adoption
BLANTYRE (AFP) - A Malawian man who claims to be the father of pop star Madonnas newly adopted daughter told AFP on Sunday that ...
Islamabad
Personal gifts from Saudi Prince Ahmad
ISLAMABAD- Saudi Arabia emerged as the single largest donor to contribute towards the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the ...
NA-53 roads turning into pool of water
RAWALPINDI-Bad road conditions are the serious challenges the residents of NA-53 have been facing for the last many years. ...
Rape accused arrested
ISLAMABAD-Capital police have arrested Shabbir who allegedly raped and killed an 8 years old Ghulam Zainab in the jurisdiction of ...
2 cars stolen; woman's cellphone snatched
RAWALPINDI - Two vehicles have been stolen in different incidents in the city here on Sunday. In another incident, two ...
Restaurants accused of charging tip with bills from customers
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The owners of restaurants and hotels in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have started charging tip ...
Foreign tourists living in inhuman conditions
ISLAMABAD-Its not the law and order situation that has kept the foreign tourists at bay, it is the apathy of our government ...
National
Pakistan need big win
The equation is straightforward for Pakistan - win convincingly against Ireland. Although a semi-final berth won't be guaranteed ...
Gul set to rock Ireland
Umar Gul is by far the best Twenty20 bowler in the world today. He is fast, accurate and at you all the time. Unlike the other ...
Karachi
Karachi in the eye of Taliban storm
KARACHI (AFP) - Militants are fanning out across countrys financial capital, where crime fuels funding for insurgency and its 14 ...
JI for end to pro-US policies
KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan on Sunday demanded of the government to revise its pro-US foreign policy. ...
Poverty increasing rapidly in Pakistan, warns survey
KARACHI - The Economic Survey of Pakistan 2008-2009 has aptly described poverty in terms of, The inadequacy of income to meet ...
Qaim eulogises Army's valour against terrorists
KARACHI (APP) - Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the 56th birthday anniversary of Shaheed Quaid of Pakistan ...
WWF speeds up efforts to conserve forests
KARACHI (PPI) - The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) has accelerated its efforts to conserve forests, ...
Pesticide exposure ups blood disorder risk: research
KARACHI (PPI) - An American study has shown that exposure to certain pesticides doubles a persons risk of developing an abnormal ...
Lahore
Martyrdom a conspiracy against Pakistan
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said that martyrdom of Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi is a part of the conspiracy of dismembering ...
Elements trying to create rift in Bar ranks, says Nasira
LAHORE - President Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) Nasira Iqbal has alleged that some elements are trying to keep the ...
MS Jinnah Hospital likely to be transferred
LAHORE - Medical Superintendent of Jinnah Hospital Dr Umer Farooq Baloch is likely to be transferred while names of two senior ...
568 govt schools converted into English medium
LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that with a view to ensuring provision of ...
Killers on the loose
Well, theyve killed Dr Sarfraz Hussain Naeemi. And with that, the militants have crossed a bridge they have long faced, the ...
Rs50b project axed owing to financial constraints
LAHORE - Due to insufficient funds, mega project of constructing 16 kilometer long Lahore Elevated Expressway costing Rs 50 ...
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