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 Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Front Page
'Lack of evidence' lets Hafiz Saeed walk free
LAHORE - A three-member Full Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered the release of Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and Col (r) Nazir Ahmad after accepting a habeas corpus writ petition. The Courts verdict, read out by Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, was met with cheers and cries of ...
Kidnapped cadets rescued
PESHAWAR - Most of the students of Rezmak Cadet College have been recovered by the Agency administration from Garyoum, a ...
Pakistan seeks US help
ISLAMABAD-Pakistan is seeking help from the US and other major powers in resumption of strings-free composite dialogue with India ...
International
Obama launches maiden Middle East mission
WASHINGTON - An Islamic advocacy group has sent an open letter to Barack Obama before his much-anticipated address in Cairo on ...
Plane searchers spot ocean debris
BRASILIA (AFP) - Search aircraft on Tuesday found a seat and other debris from a plane in a remote stretch of the Atlantic where ...
UK interior minister to quit
LONDON (AFP) - British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to stand down in a cabinet reshuffle by embattled Prime Minister Gordon ...
'Afghan war winnable'
WASHINGTON - Lt-Gen Stanley McChrystal, nominated as the new commander of all US forces in Afghanistan, said on Tuesday he ...
Nejad firm against world pressure
TEHRAN (AFP) - A defiant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Tuesday to continue resisting global pressures and walk the path he chose ...
America may rethink cuts in anti-missile funds: Gates
FORT GREELY, ALASKA (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has not ruled out pumping more funds into the nations anti-missile ...
World 'getting closer' to swine flu pandemic, warns WHO
GENEVA (AFP) - The world is getting closer to a swine flu pandemic as the virus shows early signs of spreading locally in some ...
'NKorea's Kim names third son as successor'
SEOUL (AFP) - North Koreas ailing Kim Jong-Il has named his youngest son to succeed him eventually as leader of the communist ...
US must release Guantanamo evidence: judge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A federal judge on Monday ordered the US Justice Department to publicly reveal allegations and evidence in ...
US names non-proliferation adviser
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US State Department on Tuesday named veteran envoy and analyst Robert Einhorn as a special adviser on ...
South African duo send Pakistan spinning to defeat
NOTTINGHAM (AFP) - South Africa spinners Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha took two wickets apiece as the Proteas beat 2007 ...
Jayawardene leads Sri Lanka to victory
NOTTINGHAM (AFP) - Former Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene top-scored with 43 to lead his team to a tense four-wicket win ...
Gayle blows Ireland attack
LONDON (AFP) - West Indies captain Chris Gayle led his side to a crushing nine-wicket win over Ireland in their ICC World ...
Business
FBR collects Rs989b revenue in 11 months
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected revenue of Rs.989.096 billion in July-May (2008-09), ...
No power outage after 2009
FAISALABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has categorically and emphatically asserted that there ...
Cement export on the rise
KARACHI - A robust growth of 52.57pc has been witnessed in the export of cement during ten months of current financial year ...
LCCI urges Iran to open Taftan border for trade
LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Tuesday urged the Iranian authorities not to close Taftan border for ...
Banking sector resilient despite downturn: SBP
KARACHI - Pakistans banking industry was able to maintain its resilience and showed improvement in key solvency indicators ...
Export-oriented crops imperative to reduce rising food import bill
KARACHI - The growers have sought government help for increasing the output of export-oriented agriculture items to reduce the ...
5pc FED on auto sector may go
ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is seriously contemplating to abolish five per cent federal excise duty (FED) on auto ...
Bears tighten grip as KSE sheds another 85 points
KARACHI - Low volume and lack of interest from investors turned the stock market towards bearish spell as KSE-100 index shed ...
Afghan tea import up by 260pc under ATT
KARACHI (APP) - Afghanistan has exported more tea than Pakistan through Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) during March 2009, said a ...
Commercial exporters need help
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisme) has called on Federal Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim to take ...
Politics
India calls Pakistan unreliable; to mobilise world opinion
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Angered by the release of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, India on Tuesday said it demonstrates ...
NRO can't benefit anyone yet, says CJP
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday said that the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) ...
Minister's factory attacked in Peshawar
PESHAWAR - Some unknown armed persons wearing commando uniforms killed one worker and kidnapped eight others from Bilour Matches ...
Hu Jintao urges Zardari to crush ETIM extremists
CHINA has asked Pakistan to take stern steps to root out extremist outfit East Turkistan Islamic Movement, reported BBC, quoting ...
Militant bastions in Charbagh secured
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Military said Tuesday it had killed 21 militants in the past 24 hours of its offensive to crush Taliban ...
Terror attack footage exposes security lapse
LAHORE - The footage of terrorist attack on the Provincial Headquarters of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) showed on local TV ...
Arrival of UN body on BB murder probe delayed
ISLAMABAD - Owing to ongoing military offensive in Swat and volatile security situation in the country, the arrival of United ...
PML-N MPA Gill booked in rape case
LAHORE - Naseerabad police Tuesday registered a case against Adviser to Chief Minister Punjab and PML-N MPA Munawar Ahmad Gill ...
Nato terminal attacked; 2 killed
QUETTA - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a police post and NATO terminal in Chaman at Pak-Afghan bordering town on Tuesday, ...
US asks its citizens not to visit Peshawar
ISLAMABAD - The United States on Tuesday issued a travel ban on its citizens, as American embassy has asked US nationals not to ...
New budget to address traders' concerns: Asif
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday assured the business community that the government would address their concerns in ...
Philanthropists asked to adopt affected villages
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the business community, industrialists and philanthropists to adopt affected ...
Agriculture officer, driver killed
DI KHAN (APP) - An officer of the Agriculture department and his driver were shot dead by unknown miscreants in the jurisdiction ...
Pak-India Indus Water Commission meeting concludes
NEW DELHI (APP)- A three-day annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Water Commission concluded here Tuesday with finalisation of a ...
US paper praises Pakistan military's successes in Swat and Buner
NEW YORK - After months of criticism of its alleged lack of will to fight Taliban militants, Pakistan's military came in for some ...
Entertainment
Sharks can be cuddled like dolphins
Sharks can be trained like dolphins to feed from keepers, roll over and enjoy cuddles, according to new research. In experiments ...
600ft jellyfish crop circle found
A 600FT jellyfish pattern has appeared in a barley field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, in what is one of the most intriguing ...
Kidman rubbishes Vietnam adoption claim
THERE were reports circulating on the internet that Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban were looking to expand their family by ...
'Snake-bitten Chicken' good for you
BEIJING (AFP) - A restaurant in China on Tuesday defended a controversial practice of killing chickens with snake bites, saying ...
Beatles come together for launch
Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr appeared on stage for the first public viewing of Beatles Rock Band. The karaoke-style game ...
Ronald Reagan 'appears to Nancy'
The former US First Lady, Nancy Reagan, says she still sees her husband Ronald, and talks to him. She told Vanity Fair magazine: ...
Sports
Wasim questions Butt's selection in twenty20 squad
LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has expressed surpise over the selection of opener Salman Butt for the World T20. ...
Islamabad
Man moves court to let him 'donate' kidney
RAWALPINDI-A man Razaq Ahmed has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi seeking permission to donate his ...
Police get 5-day remand of terror suspect
RAWALPINDI- Police Tuesday obtained five-day physical remand of an alleged terrorist for his alleged role in two recent suicide ...
ICT evaluates emergency units' performance
ISLAMABAD-ICT Administration on Tuesday along with other departments concerned held a mock rescue exercise in the wake of bomb ...
Capital divided into four zones
ISLAMABAD - Inspector General Police Syed Kaleem Imam has divided the Federal Capital into four zones, each headed by a ...
NAVTEC's course on skilled work force concludes
RAWALPINDI - Certificate distribution ceremony of technical courses of National Vocational and Technical Education Commission ...
Numl guards misbehaving with visitors
ISLAMABAD-Reckless behaviour of security guards at the main gate of National University of Modern Languages (Numl) is creating a ...
Karachi
Displaced kids being forced to work: UNHCR
KARACHI - To date, more than 83,000 internally placed persons (IDPs) from Buner, Dir, and Swat have been registered from the new ...
Man murders 2-month-old nephew; 3 killed separately
KARACHI - A toddler was allegedly killed by his maternal uncle over personal dispute within the jurisdiction of Malir City police ...
Tipping Point conference on 6th
KARACHI - Young Social Reformers (YSR), a youth management organisation, will organise a conference entitled Tipping Point 2009 ...
Water Board owes Rs7.5 billion to KESC
KARACHI - Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) owes the liabilities of Rs. 7.5 billion payable to Karachi Electric Supply ...
SPSC head served notice
KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notice to Chairman Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC), SSN Abbasi, and ...
2,500 land lines dead at Hawks Bay
KARACHI - Some 2,500 land lines at Hawks Bay have been dead for one year while no body from PTCL ever considered to mend these ...
India finish second in Commonwealth Table Tennis
KARACHI - Pakistan's sports rival India is doing fine in the 18th Commonwealth Table Tennis championships now in progress at ...
Lahore
Power outages return after brief respite
LAHORE - The Pakistan Electric Power Company Managing Director Tahir Basharat Cheema has said that Pepco always tries to ...
PIA to bear cost of a new plane
LAHORE -It will take more than two months for the rehabilitation of the plane that made crash landing at the Allama Iqbal ...
Budget allocation for education seems intriguing
LAHORE - The Federal governments intention to increase allocation in education sector in the coming budget 2009-10 is intriguing. ...
Reshuffling of law officers on the cards
LAHORE - A large-scale replacements of the law officers at the Punjab Advocate General office is on the cards by the Punjab ...
SC releases two death convicts
LAHORE - A full bench of the Supreme Court (SC) here Tuesday acquitted two death convicts in the murder case of Additional ...
Suo moto on plots non-allotment to women
LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Tuesday took suo moto notice over the alleged non-issuance of ...
'Solid measures being taken for IDPs relief'
LAHORE - Federal Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education Samina Khalid Ghurki met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad ...
Yousuf, Razzaq, Nazir, Naved severed ties with ICL, says PCB
LAHORE - Only four players - Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Imran Nazir and Rana Naved - have submitted proof of terminating ...
Mani to head Dubai Sports City advisory board
LAHORE - Former ICC chairman Pakistan's Ehsan Mani would head a four-member cricket advisory board formed by the Dubai Sports ...
Pakistan junior hockey team leaves for Malaysia
LAHORE - The Pakistan junior hockey team left for Malaysia on late Tuesday night to take part in the 9th Junior World Cup ...
Pakistan has won Jr World Cup only once
LAHORE -Pakistan won the title of Junior World Cup only once (in 1979), while it got one silver and three bronze medals in the ...
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