Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 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
The Nation in print for Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Front Page
Suicide blast rocks Danish embassy
ISLAMABAD - A huge bomb blast targeting the Danish Embassy here on Monday at the highly secured zone killed at least eight people and left 25 others injured. The blast, described promptly by almost all police officials on the scene as 'suicide bombing' occurred when a white colour Toyota ...
Impeachment most lethal move to oust Musharraf
ISLAMABAD - The national political scene is getting murkier by the day. Things are moving at breathtaking speed in the seething ...
Peace deals made from position of strength: President
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - President Pervez Musharraf has said that country's economic fundamentals are strong and hoped that the ...
Taliban running parallel judicial system in Swat
PESHAWAR- Contrary to what the government claims that Taliban would not establish parallel administration, Maulana Fazlullah and ...
International
Kennedy's brain surgery 'successful': Doctor
WASHINGTON - US Senator Edward Kennedy successfully underwent surgery at Duke University Medical Center on Monday for a malignant ...
Younis formally signs with South Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) - Pakistan Test batsman Younis Khan has signed with South Australia as their marquee player for part of the 2008-09 ...
Safina sends Sharapova crashing
PARIS (AFP) - Russia's Dinara Safina mounted an astonishing comeback from a set and 2-5 down to send top seed Maria Sharapova ...
Tanvir, Marsh the top performers
S. PERVEZ QAISER Kings XI Punjab's Shaun Marsh scored the highest number of runs while Sohail Tanvir of Rajasthan Royals ...
Kiwis settle for batting practice in tour draw
NORTHAMPTON (AFP) - New Zealand chose batting practice ahead of the chance for a morale-boosting win as they settled for a draw ...
Childhood rivals Djokovic, Gulbis in quarters battle
PARIS (AFP) - Serbian third seed Novak Djokovic reached the French Open quarter-finals for the third successive year on Sunday ...
Australia's arguments for Iraq war all wrong: PM
SYDNEY (AFP) - All the arguments Australia used to justify sending troops to fight in Iraq proved to be wrong, Prime Minister ...
Muslims to uproot satanic power: Nejad
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot "satanic powers" and repeated ...
Syria to allow probe of alleged nuclear site
VIENNA (AFP) - UN inspectors will visit Syria to probe allegations that Damascus was building a secret nuclear reactor for ...
US rejects charges
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House Monday rejected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's charges of twisted pre-war intelligence ...
US accused of 'floating prisons'
LONDON (AFP) - The United States has operated more than a dozen "floating prisons" to hold and question suspected extremists as ...
Iran orders suspension of news agency
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Monday ordered the Fars news agency, one of the country's most prominent and normally considered close to ...
Cartoons poison Denmark's ties with Muslim world
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Denmark, whose embassy in Pakistan was targeted in a bombing Monday that killed at least eight people, has ...
China has 15m underage smokers: govt
BEIJING (AFP) - China said on Monday the country had 15 million underage smokers - nearly four times the total population of New ...
Philippines waives uniforms for schoolchildren
KALIBO, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said Monday schoolchildren will no longer need to wear uniforms, ...
Business
Market players mislead long-term small investors
LAHORE - The cement scrips in the local share markets are being traded at highly irrational levels as the market players are ...
Pakistan, Italy sign soft loan agreement on SMEs
ISLAMABAD - A financial agreement between Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank (as borrower on behalf of government of ...
CGT may be put on hold for 2 years; CVT likely to rise by 50pc
KARACHI - After a sluggish and choppy week, a partial confidence returned to the Karachi Stock Exchange which witnessed gain of ...
Consumer loans growth dips
KARACHI - The growth in consumer loans fell to 4.8 per cent during July-March FY08 compared with 11.8 per cent in the ...
POL consumption up 8.4pc
KARACHI (APP) - The consumption of petroleum product (POL) has recorded an increase of 8.4 percent to 15.31 million during July ...
Direct container service from Karachi port to Europe launched
KARACHI (APP) - The United Marine Agencies (UMA) has announced the launch of a direct, fast container service to and from Karachi ...
G8 summit will build on Rome food talks: Japanese PM
LONDON (AFP) - Japan will use the outcome of a food crisis conference in Rome this week to focus debate at a Group of Eight ...
PC receives 19 EoIs for SME Bank's divestment
LAHORE - The Privatisation Commission (PC) has received an overwhelming response in the shape of 19 Expressions of Interest ...
Oil prices fall further on demand fears
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices weakened on Monday, extending last week's steep falls owing to concerns about lower global energy ...
Banks, cement and fertilizers lift market up
KARACHI-After experiencing a volatile week that led the KSE-100 index to decline 6.8 percent, the Karachi stock market on the ...
Politics
UK's new aravel advice plan for Pakistan
LONDON - The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office on Monday reviewed and reissued a new Travel Advice Plan to Pakistan with ...
Reinstatement not likely by June 10: Aitzaz
LAHORE - President Supreme Court Bar Association, (SCBA) Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has refuted the New York Times (NYT) report that ...
NEC okays Rs 541b psdp for next fiscal
ISLAMABAD- Announcing a major paradigm shift in economic outlook from the previous government's consumption led to pro-poor ...
100 suspected criminals surrender
HANGU- In a dramatic move, at least, 100 suspected criminals surrendered to local Taliban here on Monday in line with the ...
Shahbaz may become CM before budget sesssion
PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif may be elected as Chief Minister Punjab before the start of budget session of the provincial ...
Nawaz wasn't taken on board on Kargil, says Gen Jamshed
Ex-Corps Commander Rawalpindi Gen (Retd) Jamshed Gulzar Kiyani has said that former PM Nawaz Sharif was not taken on board ...
Musharraf was target
ISLAMABAD- Two suicide bombers, who blew their vehicle carrying high intensity explosives outside Denmark Embassy killing six ...
Cowardly act: Denmark PM
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen vehemently condemned a suicide bombing on his country's embassy in ...
Energy Conservation Plan crashes
LAHORE-The National Energy Conservation Plan apparently could not take off as Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) could ...
US, UN condemns attack on Denmark embassy
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS - The United States and the United Nations on Monday condemned a suicide bombing on Denmark's embassy ...
Musharraf a 'consummate political survivor': LATimes
WASHINGTON - A leading US newspaper Monday called President Pervez Musharraf a "consummate political survivor" who - ...
Entertainment
Jolie has her Tomb Raider guns
Angelina Jolie has revealed she owns real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt ...
Fashion king Saint Laurent dies
Yves Saint Laurent, considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th Century, has died in Paris at the age of 71. ...
Melbourne Zoo celebrates elephant pregnancy
An ultra-sound has confirmed one of the Melbourne Zoo's elephants is pregnant. The zoo is celebrating the pregnancy of a 15 ...
Fire's effect on productions will be negligible, says Universal
MOST TV production has ended for the summer and movie work has scaled back in advance of a possible actors strike. The ...
Sir Paul McCartney rocks night of Liverpool Sound
SIR Paul McCartney rocked Liverpool in a thrilling night for Capital of Culture. And if Anfield had a roof Macca would have ...
Simpson postpones tour
Ashlee Simpson is upsetting what little fans she has left by postponing her upcoming tour due to her pregnancy. "After ...
Islamabad
Senate body seeks copies of MoUs
ISLAMABAD- The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, which met at the Parliament House on Monday under the ...
CDA fails to implement rate lists
ISLAMABAD (Online)- The Capital Administration has failed to implement the rates of edibles despite the fact that the rate lists ...
'Allama Iqbal motivates Muslims for hard-work'
ISLAMABAD - An "Evening with Iqbal" held here on Monday at the Dr Anwar ul Haq Institute of Pathology here. A large numbers of ...
Call for reserve stocks to counter food crisis
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The participants of a seminar have underlined the need to build reserve stocks of essential items to save the ...
Final list of contestants for NA-55, PP-10 issued
RAWALPINDI - The Returning Officers issued final list of aspirants contesting the bye-polls being held on June 26 for the two ...
IHC fixes three years period for land acquisition
ISLAMABAD (APP)- A Single Bench of Islamabad High Court (IHC) announced its verdict in the land acquisition case by binding the ...
Naveed named in tribunal hearing Shoaib's case
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Muhammad Naveed Chaudhry as member of the Appellate Tribunal which would ...
Sports policy to be revised soon
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Sports Najamuddin Khan has said that the sports policy would revise with the consultation of all ...
Three boxing gymnasiums to be constructed
ISLAMABAD - Director General Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Muhammad Anwar Khan called on Chairman Pakistan Amateur Boxing ...
Karachi
Balochistan owes Rs870m to Sindh
KARACHI - Sindh government has sought the intervention of federal government for the recovery of Rs870 million arrears from ...
40pc grain wasted in Pakistan, says expert
KARACHI - Around 35 to 40 per cent grain, including wheat, rice and corn is being wasted in the country due to the mismanagement ...
'Q' will stand by President: Memon
KARACHI - Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production Senator Nisar A Memon, has said that Pakistan ...
HRCP slams marriage of under-age girls
Karachi - While strongly demanding the immediate arrest of all those who participated in the jirga and of those as well who ...
Construction of 3100 Road starts
KARACHI - City District Government Karachi has started construction work of 3100 road in New Karachi with a cost of Rs.280 ...
Quake-hit children to get quality education
KARACHI (PR) - The largest school of Lamnian village is being inaugurated on Monday, located some 50 kilometres from main ...
Lahore
Pakistan banking on young pacers
LAHORE - Star batsman Muhammad Yousuf stages a comeback in the full strength Pakistan 16-member team for the triangular one-day ...
Coach Zaka satisfied with preparation for Olympics
LAHORE - Pakistan hockey team's manager-cum-chief coach Khawaja Zakauddin seems satisfied with the performance of the team ...
Coaching doors open for Wasim
LAHORE - A number of corporate entities and silverscreen stars have approached the Pakistan Cricket Board showing interest in ...
LDA finalises arrangements for anti-encroachment operation
LAHORE - The Estate Management Directorate of Lahore Development Authority has finalised all arrangements for launching ...
Cabinet Division delays PM's orders
LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has issued a directive to appoint a senior doctor Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal as Chairman ...
21 candidates withdraw nomination papers
LAHORE As many as 21 candidates including PML-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz have withdrawn their ...
CAA daily wagers demand regularisation of their jobs
LAHORE -A large number of daily wagers of the Civil Aviation Authority on Monday held a protest demonstration outside the Lahore ...
LHC starts shuttle service between courts
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court has started shuttle bus service for lawyers, which will ply between the Lahore High Court and ...
Doctor verifies minor girl was raped
LAHORE - Doctor Nadia Rasheed, who conducted medico legal examination of seven years old rape victim Tayyeba, on Monday stated ...
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