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 23, 2009
Front Page
Tax on SMS withdrawn
ISLAMABAD-The government on Monday accepted the popular demand that was also made by both the Houses of the Parliament for raise in salaries to 20 per cent instead of 15 per cent, withdrawal of Carbon tax on CNG and waiver of 20 paisa levy on SMS. Winding up the debate on Finance Bill 2009-10 in ...
Big crowd reaches airport to welcome cricket heroes
LAHORE - Pakistans Twenty20 World Cup winning team arrived here in the early hours of Wednesday at the Allama Iqbal International ...
Qaeda says it would use Pak N-weapons
DUBAI (Reuters) - If it were in a position to do so, Al-Qaeda would use Pakistans nuclear weapons in its fight against the United ...
International
Islamic law influences modern global refugee law: UN study
UNITED NATIONS - The 1,400-year-old Islamic custom of welcoming people fleeing persecution has had more influence on today's ...
Pakistan needs greater help for displaced - UN envoy
UNITED NATIONS - A top UN humanitarian envoy wrapped up a two-day visit to north-west Pakistan Monday, calling on donors to step ...
Celebrations, smiles and Pakistan Zindabad
KARACHI (Reuters) - Troubled but cricket-crazy Pakistan celebrated on Monday victory in the Twenty20 World Cup 3-1/2 months after ...
Dilshan, Gul by far the best
Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan scored the highest number of runs while Umar Gul of Pakistan claimed the highest number of ...
Federer off to a flier on new-look centre court
LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer's bid for a record 15th Grand Slam title got underway in familiar fashion as the five-times champion ...
Cricket loving Mirza glad to be back
LONDON - Sania Mirza first picked up a tennis racket aged six but if she had been a boy the Indian would probably have reached ...
Vaughan out of England Ashes squad
LONDON (AFP) - Former captain Michael Vaughan was left out Monday of England's 16-man Ashes training camp squad. Vaughan has not ...
Pakistan hold China to goalless draw
SINGAPORE - Resurgent Pakistan football team surprised the Pool B leader China by holding them to a goal-less draw here in their ...
UAE opposes world interference in Iran
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates, a Gulf energy producer, said on Monday that instability in Iran was not in the ...
27 killed in Iraq attacks as US pullback looms
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Twenty-seven people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to ...
Somali president declares state of emergency
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalias president, clinging to power by his fingernails in his Mogadishu palace, on Monday declared a state of ...
Ingush President badly wounded in suicide attack
NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - The head of Russias Muslim region of Ingushetia was seriously injured on Monday in a suicide bomb ...
US 'fully ready' for NKorea missile attack, says Obama
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama assured Americans in a televised interview Monday that the United States was fully ...
US tightens Afghanistan air raids policy
NEW YORK - The US policy for airstrikes in Afghanistan will be curtailed to help reduce the number of civilian deaths, the US ...
Sale of Palestinian refugee property goes on in Israel
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has stepped up sales of the property of Palestinians who fled or were driven out in 1948, a human rights ...
Adnan Sami's father dies
MUMBAI (Agencies) - Pakistani singer Adnan Samis father Arshad Sami Khan passed away on Monday afternoon at Kokilaben-Dhirubhai ...
Business
Power outages hit 60pc Christmas buying orders
LAHORE - The Christmas buying orders have witnessed a sharp decline of over 60 per cent, losing around Rs 75 billion mainly on ...
Govt to import 0.7m tons fertilizer, says Wattoo
LAHORE (APP) - Federal Minister for Industries and Production Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has said that the government has decided ...
Agri credit disbursement up by 9.31pc in 11 months
KARACHI - Disbursement of credit to the agriculture sector by commercial and specialised banks has increased by 9.31 percent ...
World Bank expects global economy to remain 'uncertain'
WASHINGTON - The World Bank said Monday that the global economy is to further stay in uncertain conditions, downgrading its ...
Balochistan forms body to plead case in NFC meetings
QUETTA (APP) - The Balochistan government has formulated a committee of experts which would plead the case of the province in ...
Stock market kicks off week positively
KARACHI - Cricket world cup jubilation influenced the trading pattern at the local equity market as the KSE-100 index added 18 ...
Journalists protest LSE entry ban
LAHORE - The reporters of the print as well as electronic media on Monday held a protest demonstration against the misbehaviour ...
SECP defers application of IFRIC to facilitate corporate sector
KARACHI - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has deferred the Implementation of two interpretations issued by ...
KESC to earn extra Rs1.02b on tariff hike
KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) will earn additional income of Rs1.02b in a month after 17pc hike in tariff ...
Lower growth prospects in NIM to affect BoP recovery
KARACHI - The achievement of financial recovery would be a hard task for the Bank of Punjab (BoP) in the upcoming years on ...
Textiles exports down by 9.55pc in 11 months
ISLAMABAD - The exports of textile products have declined by 9.55pc during the first eleven months (July-May) of the current ...
Politics
NA showers praises on cricket team
ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution to congratulate and pay tributes to national cricket ...
Several militant leaders killed: PM
MURREE (APP/Online) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the first, second and third tier leadership of militants has ...
'Gross anomalies' in Punjab budget, says Opposition
LAHORE- During budget debate in Punjab Assembly on Monday, the Opposition censured the Treasury for not maintaining financial ...
Swat operation in final phase
ISLAMABAD - As the military offensive 'Rah-e-Rast in Swat Valley was successfully nearing culmination in dismantling militants ...
A nice strategy
Notwithstanding accommodation and adjustments in the budget 2009-10, the government vehemently defended its fiscal policy in the ...
Pakistan's victory featured in US Press
NEW YORK - Pakistans brilliant victory in the Twenty20 World Cup final against Sri Lanka was featured Monday even in the ...
Journalists endured Taliban death threats
NEW YORK - Two journalists belonging to The New York Times, who were held over seven months by the Taliban in North Waziristan, ...
Sugar consumers deprived of Rs31 billion
JAVED MAHMOOD and RAMZAN CHANDIO KARACHI - Unprecedented hike in the prices of the domestic sugar has deprived the consumers of a ...
Two cops die in suicide hit
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Two policemen were killed Monday when a suicide bomber blew up explosives packed in his vehicle in Swat, where ...
Top Obama aide to visit Pakistan
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obamas top security adviser James Jones will visit Afghanistan and Pakistan to monitor ...
Nazim among 3 killed in Quetta target-killing
QUETTA - Unidentified armed men shot dead three people including a union council nazim and wounded another person at Fatima ...
Terrorists to spread if we lose war: Zardari
WASHINGTON - Warning that the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda could spread to other parts of the world if they were not defeated in ...
Iranian police break up protest
TEHRAN (AFP) - Riot police armed with steel clubs fired tear gas to break up an opposition rally in Tehran on Monday, witnesses ...
Iran can help stabilise Pakistan, says Italy
ROME (AFP) - Italys top diplomat Franco Frattini said Monday that Iran has until the end of the day to respond to an invitation ...
Burqas have no place in France, says Sarkozy
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that burqas, garments that cover women from head to toe and ...
2 kids dead, 10 injured in cricket festivity
PESHAWAR - At least two children were killed and ten others sustained serious bullet injuries when enthusiastic youngsters ...
Indian police destroyed evidence
ACTION will be taken on the basis of an interim report into the alleged rape and murder of two women in Indian Occupied Kashmir, ...
2 securitymen injured in mine blast
SUI (APP) - Two security personnel were hurt when their vehicle hit a landmine in Suri Darbar area of the district, officials ...
Entertainment
Rihanna's panic attacks
RIHANNA appears carefree but behind the brave public persona lies a vulnerable young woman whos terrified of giving evidence ...
British dogs trained to sniff out diabetes danger
AYLESBURY (England) (Reuters) - Dogs are being trained in Britain as potential life-savers to warn diabetic owners when their ...
Brad Pitt baseball drama strikes out
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Just days away from the start of shooting, Columbia has taken Steven Soderberghs baseball drama Moneyball ...
Oprah fetes 1,700 employees and their families in Barcelona
MADRID (AFP) - US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey celebrated her 55th birthday by taking over a popular tourist attraction in ...
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision
INSPIRED by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see ...
Napoleon rides again as enthusiasts re-stage Waterloo
Waterloo (Belgium) (AFP) - This weekend Napoleons great army threatened the peace of Europe once more, as 1,200 enthusiasts ...
Islamabad
Waqas, Faizan to clash in Invitational Tennis
ISLAMABAD - Waqas Malak and Faizan Khurram will face each other in the final of the Pakistan Master Invitational Junior Tennis ...
Police recover chained persons; nab detainers
ISLAMABAD-Capital police have recovered a person kept in chains by his employer for several days and also rescued a woman and her ...
QAU VC, HEC served notices in academic's promotion case
ISLAMABAD- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued notices to Vice Chancellor (VC) Quaid-i-Azam University and Higher Education ...
PML-F seeks debate on 'Bahawalpur province'
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly Jahangir Khan Tareen has said that ...
Court rejects bail of accused
RAWALPINDI - A Division Bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Monday rejected the bail plea of an accused arrested for ...
Teachers await promised incentives
ISLAMABAD-Lack of will in bureaucracy and the procedural delays have marred the introduction of new service structure for ...
Stray animals freely roaming city
RAWALPINDI - A large number of stray dogs, cats and rats in different localities of the city has not only created immense peril ...
National
Tribesmen celebrate victory
LANDIKOTAL (PPI) - The tribesmen celebrated the victory of Pakistani cricket team through massive aerial firing and playing their ...
Karachi
Jubilant Pakistan revels in glory
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan revelled in its World Twenty20 triumph Monday, as former cricket greats voiced hopes that the victory ...
Four Pakistanis in Younus-led ICC World Twenty20 team
KARACHI (APP) - Four Pakistanis including skipper Younus Khan, Shahid Khan Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umer Gul earned the ...
Afridi becomes toast of a troubled nation
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan's swashbuckling all-rounder Shahid Afridi on Monday became the toast of the troubled nation after his ...
Assembly unearths massive land scam
KARACHI - Sindh Auqaf Department had leased out thousands of acres of agriculture land worth billions of rupees on nominal price ...
Martyrdom Bhuttos' tradition, says Sherry
KARACHI - Benazir Bhutto was the most articulate, brave, courageous and prudent leader. She was the true successor of Zulfiqar ...
PPP lawmaker's speech causes rumpus in Assembly
KARACHI - The speech of a PPP legislator on Sindh budget created controversy and friction between the two major coalition ...
Shaheed BB CNG bus project for on the cards
KARACHI - After getting approval of President Asif Ali Zardari, during his Karachi visit, the federal government-funded Shaheed ...
'Labour Courts be brought under HC'
KARACHI - The Labour Courts, governed by the Labour Ministries, should be brought under direct subordination of High Court. The ...
Sindh lecturers plan protest in August
KARACHI - Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has planned to launch a movement for the basic rights of teachers of ...
Indus River system under massive climate changes
KARACHI (PPI) - The Indus River system is under the influence of massive water divergence, climate changes and increasing ...
Lahore
LHC judge questions security to officers only
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday asked the local police to identify the law under which they have erected wall at the ...
Rescuers protest against colleagues' manhandling
LAHORE - More than 500 rescue workers of Emergency Service (1122) on Monday staged a strong demonstration to protest against the ...
Govt still unable to fill in secy higher education slot
LAHORE - The higher education department is facing shortage of staff after bifurcation of the department. The post of secretary ...
More restrictions to enter GOR-I
LAHORE - Expect two entry and exit points, the entire GOR-I has been turned into a prohibitive area not only for the common man ...
100pc fee remission for Swat students
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a one-year assistance programme for the students of IDP families ...
Judges' removal under judicial policy, LHC told
LAHORE - Defending the National Judicial Policy, the federal government has told the Lahore High Court that the termination from ...
District govts barred from preparing ADP
LAHORE - The Punjab Government has restrained the district governments in the province from preparing annual development ...
Team provides the much needed spirit
LAHORE - The victory of Pakistan cricket team has come as freshening air in the present atmosphere of tension and suffocation ...
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