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 Monday, June 29, 2009
Front Page
14 troops dead as Taliban hit back
PESHAWAR (AFP/Reuters) - Fourteen troops and 18 Taliban militants have died in clashes and air bombardments in the tribal belt as violence spikes in the northwest region, officials said Sunday, as army prepared an assault on the Taliban chief. Security forces, wrapping up a two-month campaign ...
Pakistan recovers in failed states index
PAKISTAN, split in the middle with terrorist attacks and facing an economic crisis, remains among the top 10 failed states, says ...
Kayani and Petraeus take up Waziristan action
ISLAMABAD - Commander US CENTCOM General David H Petraeus who was on a daylong official visit here on Sunday exchanged ...
International
Chavez threatens mily action if envoy to Honduras harmed
CARACAS (AFP/Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez put his troops and threatened military action if his ambassador or ...
UN rights mission hears gruesome testimony
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A UN human rights mission on Sunday listened as witnesses described in gruesome detail the Israeli shelling of ...
Rafsanjani sees conspiracy to divide Islamic system
TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a political rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
Afghan insurgents returning to old haunts
KABUL (AFP) - Militants are returning to parts of Afghanistan they occupied before the Taliban were ousted in 2001 and their ...
'Saudi Arabia has too many clerics'
RIYADH (Reuters) - The Saudi job market does not need more graduates in Islamic studies, the head of one of Saudi Arabias newest ...
Iraqi forces 'ready' to take over: US Gen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top US commander in Iraq said on Sunday the time is right for American forces to pull out of Iraqi ...
US, Russia in dispute over computer attacks
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Less than two weeks before President Barack Obamas visit to Moscow, the United States and Russia cannot agree ...
Tennis, peace the winners in Aisam, Prakash double act
LONDON (AFP) - India's Prakash Amritraj and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi insist they are "brothers" on the tennis court and ...
Vaughan to announce retirement tomorrow
LONDON (AFP) - Former England captain Michael Vaughan is set to announce his retirement from senior cricket on Tuesday. The ...
Sussex hold Australia but coach satisfied
LONDON (AFP) - Australia coach Tim Nielsen said he was satisfied with his side's workout after seeing the tourists held to a ...
I am not an alcoholic, says Symonds
SYDNEY (AFP) - Disgraced Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds said Sunday he had been diagnosed as a binge-drinker, not an ...
Bolt wins 100 title in season's world-best 9.86
KINGSTON (Jamaica) (AFP) - Beijing Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt won the 100 meters at the Jamaican Athletics ...
Venus reveals secret debt to Morigami
LONDON (AFP) - Venus Williams admits her seemingly unstoppable march towards a sixth Wimbledon title is being driven by the ...
Shin stretches LPGA lead to four strokes
PITTSFORD (New York) (AFP) - South Korea's Shin Jiyai fired a five-under par 67 on Saturday to stretch her lead to four strokes ...
Politics
Dialogue sans Kashmir counterproductive: PM
LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that it was time for a decisive action against militants and not ...
It's a long battle: TTP
WANA (Reuters/Online) - Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has declared they would never give up their fight. Well continue our ...
Militants kidnap IB personnel
PESHAWAR - An employee of Intelligence Bureau (IB), Sharif Mohammad, has been kidnapped by some unknown armed persons from his ...
Rs50m bounty for Baitullah
PESHAWAR - The federal government Sunday announced Rs50 million as head money on Baitullah Mehsud holed up in the tribal belt. ...
Plane lands safely after fire
QUETTA - A Karachi-bound flight of PIA from Quetta made an emergency landing at Quetta Airport on Sunday after fire erupted in ...
Death toll 91 as Kurram clashes spread
PARACHINAR (Online) - The death toll in sectarian clashes between rival groups in various parts of the Kurram Agency has reached ...
Iran arrests UK Embassy staff for 'role in riots'
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has detained eight local British Embassy staff, sparking a new row with Britain on Sunday that ...
Army ousts Honduras President
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters/AFP) - The Honduran army ousted President Manuel Zelaya and threw him out of the country on Sunday in ...
Suicide bombers trainer arrested
PESHAWAR - The security forces have consolidated their positions in Kokarai and Kail areas of Swat and Buner districts ...
5 political workers killed in Karachi
Karachi - Five political workers were gunned down here on Sunday. Armed men abducted PPP activist Riaz and shot him dead. On ...
Season's hottest day
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Most parts of the country particularly areas of Punjab and NWFP remained under the grip of severe heat wave on ...
2 dead as BD workers protest wage-cut
DHAKA (Reuters) - Two days of violence over wage and benefits for textile workers at a garment zone near Dhaka have killed two ...
34 dead in Afghan attacks, bombings
HERAT (AFP) - New attacks linked to a spreading Taliban-led insurgency killed around three dozen people including seven civilians ...
Quaid's relatives in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD - The family of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, arrived here on Sunday and is expected to ...
Security clampdown in IHK over rape and murder
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Indian authorities Sunday deployed thousands of police and detained a top Kashmiri leader in Occupied Kashmir to ...
'Pilferage of oil, gas from pipelines punishable'
ISLAMABAD (APP) - A new law would be enacted within a month or so declaring the pilferage of oil and gas from pipelines as ...
Entertainment
'I'm better off dead. I'm done'
WHATEVER the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Had he not been driven - by a cabal of ...
Top designers try a revamp of Islamic abaya
PARIS (AFP) - Ahead of the Paris couture shows, top designers have joined a tricky exercise to glam up one of the world's most ...
Jackson had serious skin diseases: doctor & friend
NEW YORK - An Indian-American medical doctor and writer says his long-time friend Michael Jackson suffered from lupus and ...
Jackson set for album number one
MICHAEL Jackson is set to top the UK album chart six years after his last number one, the UK's official chart compilers have ...
Mercy to be returned to family?
MERCY, the Malawian child adopted by Madonna, was to be returned to her family from the orphanage she was living in, her ...
Timberlake to save Jacko's sold out shows?
WHILE millions of fans are mourning the loss of Michael Jackson, thousands of fans who purchased tickets to his This Is It tour ...
Former nanny of Jackson's children's shocking revelations
The former nanny of Michael Jackson's three children has revealed that they hated the masks the pop star made them wear while in ...
Islamabad
Raindrop still a dream for twin cities
ISLAMABAD - Elongated power outages, burning days, scorching heat, rising mercury, sleepless nights, sweating shirts and raising ...
Man commits suicide due to financial problems
RAWALPINDI - A 40-year-old man hanged himself to death here at Police Station Sadiqabad on Monday due to his poor financial ...
Quaid's grandson urges politicians to work for country's prosperity
RAWALPINDI - The great grandson of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Aslam Jinnah Sunday said that his ...
CDA set to present environment friendly budget for 2009-10
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Capital Development Authority is all set to present the annual budget for fiscal year 2009-10, having ...
Drug user has no future, says FBR chief
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) Suhail Ahmed said that the drug ramifications range from increase in ...
Railway Hospital treats 6184 IDPs
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Doctors at the medical camps set up by Railway General Hospital (RGH) in Mardan examined and provided treatment ...
Karachi
Govt committed to harmony among provinces: Marri
KARACHI (APP) - Any shortages in the country must be shared equally by Pakistans federating units in an effort to work together ...
JI warns US not to interfere in Pak affairs
Karachi - Tens of thousands of Jamaat-e-Islamis supporters staged Go America Go rally on Sunday to condemn the US. interference ...
Beggars adopt novel ways to collect money
KARACHI - Beggars are still in action with various techniques to get money. One of the women beggars on Sunday has been caught in ...
Slopping education standard continues in the country
KARACHI - Education has never been Pakistans strong point. The supporting steps taken over the period of time have not matched ...
Only 3 experts in PR bomb disposal unit
KARACHI (PPI) - The Pakistan Railways polices bomb disposal unit is ill-prepared to cope with any major terrorist threat, as ...
Gulistan-e-Johar hit by acute water shortage, massive loadshedding
KARACHI (PPI) - People of Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi are facing multifarious problems like water shortage, public transport and ...
Pakistan has estimated 5 million drug addicts
KARACHI (APP) - Chairperson KPT Nasrin Haque has said that with an estimated 5 million drug addicts in our country; the drug ...
Lahore
Acute heatwave roasts Lahorites
LAHORE - Sunday proved to be the hottest day of the summer for Lahorites with City temperature recorded at 46 degree Centigrade. ...
Mansoor's miniature depicts real life in art
LAHORE - Pakistan Academy of Letters on Sunday launched a book titled 'Mansoors Miniature here at Lahore art council. Sargodha ...
Offices' closure makes no difference to outages' hours
LAHORE - No difference was observed in Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco)s load management on Sunday, the day when ...
Mian Tufail and the Moonwalk
Well, a week that began with a win in the cricket World Cup, even if it was in the T20 format, cant be all bad, but a week that ...
Unionism is still crime in PARB
LAHORE - Despite the fact that the PPP-led government has allowed labour unions to function across the country, unionism is ...
Shahbaz inaugurates new bus service
LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that public transport system is being improved for providing ...
Home boy Murray in cruise control
LONDON (AFP) - Andy Murray cruised into the Wimbledon last 16 on Saturday while veterans Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt and Tommy ...
Tight security for Pakistan in Colombo
LAHORE - The Sri Lankan Cricket (SC) has hired services of security forces including military security for safeguarding Pakistan ...
Ajmal sets sights on Test performance
LAHORE -After his spectacular performance in the Twenty20 World Cup, off-spinner Saeed Ajmal says he is now aiming to fulfill ...
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