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 Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Front Page
No new taxes in deficit budget
LAHORE - PML (N)-led Punjab government on Tuesday presented its second budget with total outlay of Rs 489 billion for the fiscal year 2009-10, with deficit of Rs 66 billion and massive reliance on Federal grants in the absence of any new levies. Instead of following the footsteps of the Federal ...
Thaw in Pakistan, India relations
YEKATERINBURG (Reuters/AFP) - The leaders of India and Pakistan met on Tuesday for the first time since last years attacks on ...
Army ready to launch Rah-e-Nijat Operation
ISLAMABAD - As the security forces are gearing up efforts for an all-out offensive against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief ...
International
Nejad doubts US ability to solve global problems
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday sat side-by-side with world leaders at a summit in ...
SCO leaders congratulate Ahmadinejad
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, (Reuters) - The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Tuesday congratulated Iranian ...
40 feared dead in Indonesian gas explosion
JAKARTA (AFP) - More than 40 miners were feared dead Tuesday after a massive explosion of methane gas collapsed a coal mine in ...
Rivals rally in Tehran to show strength
TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his defeated challenger staged rival ...
UN calls traffic as health hazard
UNITED NATIONS - Eighty-five countries around the world lack adequate laws to address the growing problem of traffic deaths and ...
Mumbai attacks report slams city police chief
MUMBAI (AFP) - Mumbai's police chief failed to lead his force from the front during last year's attacks on the city, a committee ...
Russia's veto ends UN's Georgia observer mission
UNITED NATIONS - Russia, wielding its veto power in the UN Security Council, brought an end Monday to the nearly 16-year-old ...
Campaigning kicks off in Afghan vote
KABUL (AFP) - Campaigning for Afghanistan's second-ever presidential elections kicked off Tuesday with hundreds of posters ...
UN chief urges rapid enforcement of CTBT
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the urgency of bringing into force the Comprehensive ...
Palestinians being treated 'like animals'
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in the Gaza Strip, where he called ...
Afghan strategy was flawed: Nato boss
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Making individual Nato members responsible for specific provinces in Afghanistan has hindered international ...
Iran will have nuclear bomb by 2014: Mossad
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The head of Israel's Mossad spy agency said on Tuesday that Iran would have a ready-to-launch nuclear bomb ...
Detainee statements shed light on CIA interrogations
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative and self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 ...
Pakistan set for $10m World Cup bounty
LONDON (AFP) - Pakistan could earn more than 10 million dollars even if they don't host a single match in cricket's World Cup in ...
Mendis spins Sri Lanka into semis
NOTTINGHAM (AFP) - Ajantha Mendis spun out New Zealand as Sri Lanka roared into the World Twenty20 semi-finals with an emphatic ...
Sarwan steers WI to semis
LONDON (AFP) - Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul steered the West Indies into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 at ...
Pakistan to face Korea in classification tie
SINGAPORE - Pakistan will face South Korea in the second round game in battle for a place among the fifth to eighth as the medal ...
Business
16pc increase in FED likely to affect banks customer base
KARACHI - The proposed 16 percent increase in Federal Excise Duty (FED) on banking services and fee income announced in federal ...
Plan to set up special economic zones
ISLAMABAD - Saleem Mandviwalla, Minister of State for Investment and Chairman Board of Investment Tuesday said that the ...
Pak-IMF talks for next tranche on 28th
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Government of Pakistan and International Monetary Fund (IMF) would hold next meeting on June 28 in Dubai to ...
PTCL sets up IDPs camps
LAHORE (PR) - Relief camps for IDPs were being established at Lahore, Okara, Sahiwal, Sheikhupura, Raiwind and Kasur on the ...
Asian stock markets tumble
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian markets tumbled on Tuesday as dealers decided to cash in on a rally that has pushed stocks to highs not ...
Market sheds another 80 points on foreign selling
KARACHI - Low volumes continued to dominate the business at Karachi Stock Exchange as benchmark-100 index shed another 80.13 ...
Irrigation gets Rs10b, agri sector Rs3.2b, livestock Rs2b and industries Rs350m
LAHORE (APP) - The Punjab government has allocated Rs 10 billion for the irrigation sector under Annual Development Programme ...
Carbon tax abolition sought
KARACHI - The CNG Station Owners Association of Pakistan (CSOAP) expressed their reservations on the newly introduced Carbon Tax ...
KCCI not satisfied with budget
KARACHI - The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has received huge dissatisfaction over the Federal Budget 2009-10 ...
Auto sector shows signs of turnaround
KARACHI - The 5 per cent FED relieve in the budget, improved rupee-yen parity and reduced steel prices have turned things around ...
Politics
Defending the 'wrong'
LAHORE - It was perhaps under the compulsions of a coalition government that Punjab Minister for Finance Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, in ...
Axe falls on education spending
LAHORE - A sum of Rs 23.125 billion has been allocated for education sector in the Punjab budget 2009-10. If Rs 300 million ...
Old wine in new bottle
LAHORE- The Punjab budget 2009-10 included several promises, which the government failed to materialise in the last budget ...
Key US Senate panel clears Pak economic aid bill
WASHINGTON - The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that proposes tripling of economic ...
Law & order eats up Rs43b of revenue
LAHORE - Police performance is reportedly deteriorating with every passing day, and their protocol is increasing manifold, while ...
NA budget debate makes explosive start
ISLAMABAD - Severely criticising the PPP-led coalition government for getting budget document prepared by an unelected Advisor, ...
Senators wake up to back govt employees
ISLAMABAD - Senators from both treasury and Opposition benches have asked the government to increase government employees ...
Pakistan for effective participation in SCO
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday stressed the need for addressing the transnational challenges ...
Meetings don't mean talks revival: Menon
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Tuesday made it clear that the encounter between Pakistani President Asif Ali ...
Trade, terror top agenda of Pak-EU summit
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union and Pakistan hold their first summit Wednesday, with the fight against terrorism and ...
US-Muslims' religious freedom undercut
WASHINGTON - American Muslims' right to practice their religion through charity giving has been undermined by US terrorism ...
20 drown as boat capsizes in canal
LARKANA/KASHMORE - A boat, carrying 25 passengers including men, women and children, coming from a village in Katcha area to ...
Khamenei also favours partial vote recount
TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - Irans top legislative body on Tuesday ruled out annulling a disputed presidential poll that has prompted ...
2 cops killed as militants attack checkpost
MARDAN - At least two policemen have been killed and three others injured in militants attack on a check-post in Lond Khwar area, ...
Three FWO men go missing
SHINKAYARI (APP) - Three employees of Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) went missing when their vehicle was plunged into deep ...
Prominent Taliban commander arrested
PESHAWAR - The security agencies arrested Anwarul Haq Mujahid, a prominent Afghan commander and close associate of former Jihadi ...
Three Baloch leaders held
MASTUNG (Online) - The police Tuesday arrested three leaders of Balochistan Republican Party and recovered arms and explosives ...
Woman among 3 killed for 'honour'
LARKANA - Five armed men killed three people including a woman and a child in Taluka Shahdadkot in the limits of Sanjar Bhatti ...
SC orders survey of eunuchs
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Secretaries Social Welfare of all the provinces to conduct a survey for ...
HRW for safe civilian evacuation
NEW YORK - An international human rights group has denounced the Taliban tactics in deploying their forces in populated areas as ...
Entertainment
Lindsay Lohan to face jewellery theft probe
LINDSAY Lohan could be called to speak to police investigating the disappearance of jewellery worth a quarter of a million ...
Lloyd's first public appearance
DANIELLE Lloyd toned down her usual brash look to make her first public appearance since she was pictured bloodied and lying in ...
JK Rowling sued for 500m in plagiarism lawsuit
JK ROWLING and her publisher are being sued for 500million for allegedly copying Harry Potter from an earlier childrens book, ...
Beyonce to perform at BET awards
US SINGER Beyonce is to perform at this years Black Entertainment TV (BET) awards, it has been announced. The singer has five ...
Madonna's Jesus to hit Brazil's catwalk
SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian model described as Madonnas 'toyboy and a bevy of black beauties are to attract intense media ...
Megan doesn't like being compared to Jolie
The 23-year-old actress - who is single after splitting from former fiance Brian Austin Green - says shes in love with the ...
Islamabad
Need to endorse 'maternal mortality resolution' urged
ISLAMABAD - As part of its Safe Motherhood Campaign, the World Population Foundation (WPF) Pakistan has appealed to the ...
X-ray machine at BBH remains dysfunctional
RAWALPINDI - The X-Ray machine at 507-bed Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) Emergency Department (ED) is not functioning for the last ...
Implementation of IHC decision sought
ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of the daily-wage teachers have appealed to the President, Prime minister, Chief Justice Pakistan, Education ...
Special team formed to probe Raja Assads murder
RAWALPINDI - City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal Khan has constituted a special team to probe into the murder of senior ...
IHC admits writ over seniority issue for hearing
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Islamabad High Court here Tuesday issued notice to the Federation over the issue of seniority of ...
Experts share information on cultural mapping
ISLAMABAD- The two-day Information Sharing Meeting on Cultural Mapping with the purpose to share information on initiatives ...
Karachi
Announcement of NFC Award in 2 months: Qaim
KARACHI - The new National Finance Commission Award would possibly be announced within two months as PML-N government in Punjab ...
No solution to traffic jams problem in sight
KARACHI - The traffic jams and increasing ratio of encroachments besides busy roads in the metropolitan is said to be one of the ...
Sindh budget 'nothing more than media fanfare'
The PPP governments second Sindh budget proved a damp squib, a non-starter and miserably failed to attract even a negative ...
Police asked to take on extortionists
Karachi (PPI) - Provincial Home Minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza has taken strict notice of the protest demonstration of trader bodies ...
Govt help sought for release of Pakistanis in Jeddah
KARACHI - Families of nine alleged drug smugglers, arrested by Saudi Arabia police at Jeddah Airport, have appealed to the ...
Death of infant: SHC confirms bail to two doctors
KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh High Court on Tuesday confirmed bail before arrest granted to two gynaecologists in death case of ...
Lahore
Punjab judiciary overspends Rs1456.7 million
LAHORE - Punjab judiciary had made a huge overspending of Rs 1456.696 million during the last fiscal year (2008-09) with a ...
Govt didn't learn from mistakes: Opp Leader
LAHORE - Opposition Leader at the Punjab Assembly Ch Zaheer-ud-Din, while outrightly rejecting the budgetary highs and hopes of ...
Public servants take 15pc 'relief' with pinch
LAHORE - The provincial bureaucracy, while deeming term 'Ad hoc Relief Allowance nothing as such, has considered 15 per cent ...
LHC summons SP, agency owner
LAHORE-Hearing a suo moto case about suicide committed by a private security company guard due to non-payment of salary, Chief ...
Rs13.275b earmarked for local governments
LAHORE - The Punjab government has earmarked Rs 13275.04 million for the local governments in 2009-10 against Rs 123,128.60 ...
Mega roads development projects to continue
LAHORE - The Punjab government has announced to continue the mega projects of development of roads including Lahore Ring Road ...
India against relocating matches
LAHORE - The Indian cricket board has expressed its resentment over the relocation of the World Cup matches. Reports from various ...
Younus dedicates Ireland victory to Woolmer
LAHORE - Pakistan captain Younus Khan dedicated his side's win over Ireland at the Oval to former coach Bob Woolmer. Woolmer died ...
Bari named PCB's interim chief selector
LAHORE - Former chief selector and PCB HR director Wasim Bari has been appointed as interim chairman of the selection committee ...
Gavaskar backs embattled Indian captain Dhoni
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday received sound backing from the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, who ...
WAPDA first Pakistani team to enter AFC President's Cup semis
LAHORE - The long wait of restless officials and players of WAPDA was over when they jumped with joy and hugged each other with ...
Pakistan Asian Youth Games contingent to leave from 18th
LAHORE - The 39-members Pakistan contingent will participate in the first Asian Youth Games to be held in Singapore from June 29 ...
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