Thursday, February 09, 2012
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
- Terror trial of accused Bali bomber starts Monday
- Warrant issued for ex-Maldives president
- Nato supplies continue through Pak airspace: Munter
- Contempt appeal: SC asks Aitzaz to complete arguments on Friday
- Khar says drone attacks multiply militants
- Tax collection registers increase of 26%: Hafeez Shaikh
The Nation in print for Sunday, June 28, 2009
Front Page
Too soon to declare victory in Swat: US
TRIESTE, Italy (Reuters) - US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said it is too soon for Pakistan to declare victory in its Swat Valley, where the Army has driven back Taliban insurgents. Holbrooke, attending a G8 conference on stabilising Pakistan and Afghanistan in Italy, ...
Warplanes soften Waziristan targets
PESHAWAR (AFP/Reuters) - At least 12 militants were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Saturday when forces attacked the ...
Swat cantt to block militants' return: Zardari
ISLAMABAD - The PPP leadership has initiated consultations with its coalition partners on the likely constitutional reforms ...
International
Karzai calls on Taliban to vote in election
KABUL (Reuters/AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and their allies on Saturday to vote in Augusts ...
Nejad berates Obama as post-poll debate rages
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again slammed US President Barack Obama on Saturday for interfering in Iran, ...
UN pushes countries to end torture
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday urged governments to go on the offensive in the fight against torture, ...
Don't leave me 'dying in desert', Thaksin tells rally
BANGKOK (AFP) - Ousted former Thailand premier Thaksin Shinawatra urged his supporters not to leave him dying in the desert of ...
US House passes landmark climate change bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama scored a major victory when the US House of Representatives passed legislation to ...
Military detains 22 pro-Palestinian Israelis
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli security forces detained 22 pro-Palestinian Israeli activists on Saturday as they dispersed a protest ...
Iran bans Mousavi ally from leaving the country
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has banned an ally of the countrys Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from leaving the Islamic state, ...
Hasina was fed poison in prison: Sajeda
BANGLADESHI Prime minister Sheikh Hasina was fed poisoned food while she was in prison during the 2007-08 military-installed ...
Nato, Russia resume ties
CORFU, Greece, (Reuters) - Nato and Russia on Saturday restarted formal cooperation on broad security threats but failed to ...
White House drafting indefinite detention order
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House dismissed reports Friday that it has drafted an executive order allowing indefinite detention ...
Yuvraj seals India opening win over West Indies
KINGSTON (Jamaica) (AFP) - Yuvraj Singh set India up for a 20-run victory over West Indies in the first One-day International on ...
Ana thrashes Stosur
LONDON (AFP) - Ana Ivanovic raced into the fourth round at Wimbledon with a straight sets defeat of Australia's in-form Samantha ...
Shin seizes lead in storm-struck LPGA event
PITTSFORD (New York) (AFP) - South Korea's Shin Jiyai fired a four-under par 68 on Friday to seize a three-stroke lead when ...
Venus gets revenge, Jankovic crashes
LONDON (AFP) - Defending champion Venus Williams avenged one of the most embarrassing defeats of her career on Saturday by ...
Business
Clients more concerned with access to credit than mark-up
KARACHI - Despite popular criticism directed at micro-finance institutions for charging high interest rate, the clients in ...
Shoes export up 13pc despite R&D removal and recession
LAHORE - The special subsidized rates for Pakistans worldwide footwear trade have helped increase the exports to the extent of ...
More firms opting for Poonch-Rawalakot route
MIRPUR (APP) - Since the cross-LoC trade between occupied Kashmir and Azad Jammu and Kashmir was going on successfully, rather ...
UN adopts document calling for increased aid, financial reforms
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has adopted an outcome document at a high-level meeting on world financial and economic ...
FTA to help boost Pak-Lanka trade ties
SIALKOT/DASKA - High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Pakistan Air Chief Marshal (r) Jayalath Weerakkody has said that it was the ...
Excessive outages cripple residential, commercial life
LAHORE - Traders community will hold protest demonstration against electricity loadshedding and the proposed 17 per cent hike in ...
PIA to absorb contractual staff into regular cadres
KARACHI - The PIA Board of Directors met here on Saturday approved the absorption of contractual officers into permanent ...
Importers annoyed with increase in taxes
KARACHI - The steel importers showed dissatisfaction over the issue of increasing taxes on import of finished steel products and ...
Cheap energy impossible sans coal, hydel generation
ISLAMABAD (APP) - PEPCO Managing Director Tahir Basharat Cheema has said that the government is working on several power ...
TTA with Afghanistan may harm Pak economic sovereignty in future
KARACHI - A plausible difference has been found in the transit trade agreements (TTA) between Pakistan and India with ...
Politics
Quaid portraits removed from Presidency
ISLAMABAD - Spokesperson of the Presidency Farhatullah Babar has dismissed the report by a private channel, alleging that ...
G8 supports Pak action against extremists
TRIESTE, Italy, (PPI/AFP) - The foreign ministers of the worlds eight leading industrialised nations praised Pakistans war ...
Fazlullah's family under custody
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Saturday said that the family of Maulvi Fazlullah, chief of ...
Provinces to get due water share: IRSA
ISLAMABAD - All the provinces would be provided water as per their share and no 30 per cent reduction would be made in water ...
PA for Authority reconstitution
LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly members on Saturday demanded the reconstitution of the Indus River System Authority, maintaining ...
200 held over AJK attack
MIRPUR (AJK) - In the wake of first-ever suicide attack on security personnel in Muzaffarabad, the security has been put on red ...
UN team to arrive in July's third week
ISLAMABAD - The three-member UN inquiry commission constituted to investigate the assassination of former prime minister Benazir ...
Civil war-like situation in Pakistan, says Magsi
QUETTA - Pointing out to establishments role for fanning differences between the Army and Baloch masses, Governor Balochistan ...
Operation hinders Taliban efforts: US
WASHINGTON - Pakistans military offensive against the Taliban has slowed the flow of arms and fighters into Afghanistan, a major ...
Pakistan asked to act tough against anti-India terrorists
INDIAN Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Saturday urged Islamabad to act tough against 'anti-India terrorists allegedly ...
Joint anti-narcotics operations start
TRIESTE, Italy (Reuters) - Iran is committed to a regional effort to tackle drug trafficking from Afghanistan and has begun joint ...
Army's morale is high: Kayani
KARACHI - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday visited Malir Garrison. On arrival at Malir ...
Grenade hurts 4 Indian soldiers
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Freedom fighters lobbed a grenade at a security patrol in the heart of Srinagar Saturday, wounding 4 ...
Swat IDPs to return from July 10
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The NWFP government has announced that the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Malakand Division will ...
Entertainment
'No foul play' in Jackson death
FOUL play has been ruled out in the death of Michael Jackson, after doctors completed an autopsy on the singer who died on ...
MJ's ex Presley says he predicted he would die like her father
MICHAEL Jacksons former wife Lisa Marie Presley said he once predicted he would 'end up dying like her father Elvis. Miss Presley ...
Will Jackson's funeral be the biggest since Princess Diana's?
MICHAEL Jacksons funeral is likely to be the biggest in entertainment history, drawing tens of thousands of mourners and hundreds ...
Obama sends condolences to Jackson family
WEVE all been affected in some way or another by the death of Michael Jackson-including Barack Obama. Hes sent his condolences to ...
Elizabeth Taylor releases heartfelt statement
ELIZABETH Taylor had a long friendship with Michael Jackson and was clearly devastated after hearing about his death. She ...
Woman shares home with 4 cheetahs, 5 lions and 2 tigers
SHARING a bed with your furry friend has taken on a whole new meaning for Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen. The sanctuary worker shares ...
Jackson's body released to his family
NEW YORK The body of Michael Jackson has been released to his family for burial after an autopsy failed to immediately determine ...
Islamabad
Thorny road ahead for CDA new boss
ISLAMABAD - Like his predecessors, the new Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat Elahi has spelled out an ambitious list of priorities for ...
PML-Q Senator denies involvement in liquor case
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Pakistan Muslim League-Q Senator Gulshan Saeed has denied the reports of her involvement in the liquor case ...
Polyclinic inquiry report tomorrow
ISLAMABAD - The inquiry report to probe into the death incident of a female patient due to erroneous blood transfusing by ...
Eunuchs sports event to draw crowds
ISLAMABAD (Online) - The eunuchs' teams of cricket, hockey, volleyball and football belonging to Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Wah ...
'Tout Mafia' irks passport seekers
RAWALPINDI - Indifferent and pathetic attitude of the staffers, lack of facilities and abundant of touts have multiplied the ...
Scavengers' rehabilitation: Anyone listening?
ISLAMABAD - For Hayatullah and Abdul Haq, who are just 8 years old, the day commences early in the morning. Living in Faizabad ...
National
Explosion rocks FIA Quetta office
QUETTA - Unknown armed men on Saturday riding a motorbike hurled a hand-grenade on the provincial headquarters of the Federal ...
Karachi
PCB employees left in the cold as players showered with cash
KARACHI - From middle to low grade, employees of the Pakistan Cricket Board have remained unaffected from the enormous cash ...
NHA to construct 3 Sindh highways
KARACHI - The construction of at least three important roads of Sindh have been handed over to the National Highway Authority ...
Bodies of three Mehsud's aides identified
KARACHI - Three of the five alleged associates of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief, Baitullah Mehsud, who were gunned down ...
PA unanimously okays budget
KARACHI - Sindh Assembly on Saturday unanimously approved the provincial budget for the fiscal 2009-10 with a consolidated ...
KESC performance bolsters re-nationalisation demand
Karachi (PPI) - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) despite excessive lip-service has failed to deliver, increasing ...
5 million drug addicts in Pakistan, moot told
Karachi - KPT hosted a seminar at its Staff College on Friday to create awareness about drug abuse and to prevent it in the ...
KESC saga - revisited (Part 2)
I had planned to write this ST article on the health of the nation, but so much has been happening on the KESC front, that I ...
Lahore
Members say fiscal layout prepared by under-19 team
LAHORE - After seeing less weightage being given to their suggestions and advices in the fiscal layout, Members Punjab Assembly ...
Speaker grilled for promoting 'Ranas'
LAHORE - Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan was virtually taken to task by members for giving more time to the ...
Fazl offers mediation between government and Taliban
LAHORE - JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has demanded constitution of a high level judicial commission to determine the causes ...
Musharraf brought US war to Pakistan, says Shamshad
LAHORE - Central Secretary Information PML-N Ahsan Iqbal has said that we can build a new nation and revamp follies of our past ...
Daughters immediately succeed to inheritance
LAHORE - A Full Bench of the Supreme Court while deciding an important point regarding inheritance of the women has observed that ...
Nizami for setting up NPT centres in other provinces
LAHORE - Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust and Editor-in-Chief The Nation Majid Nizami has said that we have no other remarkable ...
New bus service for Lahorites to be launched today
LAHORE - In the provincial metropolis a new bus service is being inaugurated in the City today (28th June) while an agreement is ...
BA, BSc result likely in July second week
LAHORE - Punjab University result of BA/BSc Annual Examinations 2009 is expected in the second week of July. Controller ...
Confident Pakistan team off to Sri Lanka
LAHORE - Pakistan's cricket team left for Sri Lanka on a 45-day tour with coach Intikhab Alam promising that his players will ...
Younus pronounces his mantra: Mind your own business
LAHORE - Younus Khan said the captain and players mattered the most in the team's performance and the coach plays a secondary ...
Yousuf, Razzaq to get central contract
LAHORE - The PCB has decided to award category A central contracts to Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq. These two senior batsmen ...
Buoyant Aisam, partner battle into third round
LAHORE - Pakistan top tennis star Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi and partner Prakash Amritraj battled hard to win the epic four-and-a-half ...
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