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 Saturday, June 06, 2009
Front Page
Bloodbath at Dir mosque
PESHAWAR - At least 42 worshippers were killed including 12 children, and dozens other injured, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque during Juma prayers in remote area of Hayagai Sharqi of District Upper Dir. The faithful killed in the blast were reportedly anti-militants, the ...
US to respect red lines marked by Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - The US Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke on Friday said that the United States respected the sovereignty of Pakistan ...
Army, NWFP leaders take up post-conflict roadmap
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Army and civilian leadership of NWFP Friday discussed the post-conflict management and settlement roadmap ...
International
Int'l community's help for Pakistan's displaced inadequate: Haroon
NEW YORK - Pakistan's UN Ambassador Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon said Thursday that the assistance provided by the ...
Resentment against Taliban growing in Pakistan: NYT
NEW YORK - The prolonged Taliban insurgency in Pakistan may be turning the people, especially those hit by its brutality, ...
UN chief flays Dir bombing
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Friday's bomb attack at a mosque in Upper Dir, which reportedly ...
Make 'hard choices', Obama asks Israel and Arab states
DRESDEN, Germany, (Reuters/AFP) - US President Barack Obama Friday pressed Israel and the Arab states to make hard choices, ...
US President's speech hailed
WASHINGTON - Muslim leaders and organisations in the United States hailed US President Barack Obamas speech in Cairo on ...
UN staffer held
UNITED NATIONS - A staff member of the United Nations has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography, federal ...
Israel's occupation shames world: Erakat
RAMALLAH (AFP/Reuters) - Israels 42-year occupation of the Palestinian territories that has followed on from the 1967 Six Day ...
China landslide buries 80
BEIJING (AFP) - At least 80 people were buried Friday when part of a mountain collapsed in a massive landslide in a remote area ...
56 killed in Somali fighting
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Rival extremist groups battled for a central Somali town on Friday, killing at least 56 fighters, while ...
Iran amasses 1,359kg low-enriched uranium: IAEA
VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog has not made any progress in its probe into the alleged illicit nuclear activities in Iran ...
Bus fire kills 25
BEIJING (AFP) - Twenty-five people were killed and 76 injured when a bus caught fire in China on Friday, state media ...
New row muddies US 'torture' debate
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A row erupted Friday as Democrats accused Republican rivals of revealing secret information on interrogation ...
Top govt official killed in Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, Russia, (AFP) - The head of the Interior Ministry in Russias turbulent Dagestan region was on Friday shot dead by a ...
World Twenty20 opening ceremony a damp squib
LONDON (AFP) - Old-timers in the Lord's Pavilion are used to hearing a variety of sounds - the smack of leather on willow as the ...
Warm-up defeats don't matter much, says coach
NOTTINGHAM (AFP) - Pakistan's two morale-sapping losses in practice matches will count for little once the action starts in the ...
Sharma set to shine
Rohit Sharma is elegance personified for you. He plays with a lot of grace and yet manages to play at a good rate. The ...
A glance at today's matches
New Zealand lost in semi finals of the last Twenty20 World Cup and should be aiming to do better this time. They certainly have ...
Bangladesh face an uphill task
Indians are proficient side and surely Bangladesh will have to play out of their skins to upset them. Indians are playing a ...
Media, fans call time on Symonds' career
SYDNEY (AFP) - Media and fans on Friday called for the end of troubled allrounder Andrew Symonds' international cricket career ...
Politics
Parcel bomb injures BNP MNA, family
KARACHI - Balochistan National Party (Awami) MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo and his family members on Friday suffered injuries when a ...
Resources belong to all Pakistanis, says Nawaz
ISLAMABAD/SWABI - A high-level meeting of PML-N, chaired by Nawaz Sharif Friday at Punjab House, decided that the Punjab ...
America asked to write off Pak debt
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani called upon the US to write off its debt to help the government of Pakistan ...
Senators for early end to mily action
ISLAMABAD - Expressing grave concern over the supply of foreign ammunition to militants of Swat, Senators have asked the ...
Pakistan and Iran seal gas pipeline deal
Pakistan and Iran have signed gas pipeline deal in Turkey, reported a private TV channel late on Friday. Managing Director ...
Zardari warns IDPs can look to Taliban
LONDON (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari has said there is a broad-based consensus on the operation against militants and ...
CJP calls on President
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr. The ...
4 soldiers die in SW blast
FOUR soldiers were killed while two others received severe injuries in a landmine explosion in South Waziristan Agency on Friday, ...
Civilians flee Kabal, Matta
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Civilians again streamed out of homes in Swat valley Friday, following evacuation orders from the military and ...
60pc perceive political parties highly corrupt
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Almost 60 percent Pakistanis think the level of corruption in political parties is high or very high, followed ...
WB okays $900m package
WASHINGTON - The World Bank has said it approved over $900 million in low-interest loans for Pakistan aimed at improving ...
Kashmiris defy ban on protests
SRINAGAR (AFP/Reuters) - Fifty people were hurt Friday after thousands of angry Kashmiris defied a protest ban and clashed with ...
Bangash tribe decides to move to Afghanistan
The long time closure of roads in Kurram Agency has forced Bangash tribe to take refuge in Afghanistan. The decision to leave ...
PM's son-in-law seeks custody of his child
LAHORE - Husband of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilanis daughter has approached a local guardian court seeking custody of his ...
NFC Award put on hold for two years
KARACHI - The much-awaited National Finance Commission Award has been put on hold for at least two years and the coming 2009-10 ...
Relief supplies running out: UN
GENEVA (AFP) - Relief supplies for some two million displaced by fighting in northwestern Pakistan could run out in weeks, relief ...
US mily tech easily shipped abroad: US audit
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sensitive military technology used in nuclear weapons and missiles can be bought easily in the US and ...
British Prime Minister defies resignation calls
LONDON (AFP/Reuters) - A defiant Gordon Brown vowed to tough it out as Britains prime minister Friday after four members of his ...
Entertainment
Beinazir appears in Big Brother
Twenty-eight year old Pakistani origin Beinazir, studding Support Assistant, appeared in Big Brother house here on ...
Melanie Sykes divorces husband
MELANIE Sykes has been granted a divorce from husband Daniel Caltagirone. The model & TV presenter married actor Daniel in ...
Blind Japanese woman receives IBM's top award
TOKYO (AFP) - US computer giant IBM has named Chieko Asakawa as the first blind engineer as well as the first Japanese female ...
Rare glimpse of Jackson's kids faces
SINCE Michael Jacksons children were first unveiled from their masked existence a year ago, they havent been seen since without ...
Kim denies engagement with Bush
KIM Kardashian has rubbished reports suggesting that shes engaged to beau Reggie Bush. I am not engaged she blogs. My new ...
Take That begin record 50m tour
TAKE That are to embark on the biggest tour the UK and Ireland have ever seen, playing to more than a million people at 20 ...
Sports
PCB fumes over Younis' comments on Pakistan security
LAHORE - Younis Khan's comment that Pakistan is in a state of war has upset the PCB, which feels the national skipper's ...
First last ball win in Twenty-20 World Cup
Holland became the first associate member team to beat a Test playing nation in S Pervaiz Qaiser Twenty-20 World Cup when they ...
Islamabad
'Govt to update entire education curriculum'
ISLAMABAD - The government plans to increase the budgetary allocation for education as part of the forthcoming national ...
Continued development work in Capital triggering pollution
ISLAMABAD - The pollution level has reached at alarming level in the Federal Capital due to massive construction works and ...
PODA invites research papers on rural women
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) has invited research papers on a number of subjects to ...
Security beefed up to avert untoward incidents
RAWALPINDI - City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Rao Muhammad Iqbal Friday said that police has beefed up the security ...
Locals at embassies, foreign cos losing jobs
ISLAMABAD - The worries of the locals working with foreign nationals are mounting these days due to the fleeing of foreigners ...
NAVTEC gets CTTI accredited with APACC
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Vocational and Technical Education Commission, (NAVTEC) has achieved the first milestone by getting ...
Karachi
Power cable theft caused Rs110m loss to KESC
KARACHI - In last one year, the KESC suffered a loss of Rs110 million from the incidents of copper wire theft, Naveed Ismail, ...
PMA suggests raise in health budget
KARACHI - Pakistan Medical Association (Centre) has submitted the National Health Policy 2009 with suggested reforms to be ...
LSA Fashion nominations announced in nine categories
KARACHI - The fashion nominations for the 8th LUX Style Awards were announced in Karachi by the LUX Style Awards office this ...
Water-borne diseases on the rise in Zia Colony
Karachi (PPI) - More than fifteen people die annually due to consuming contaminated and subsoil water in Zia Colony, Karachi, ...
Kamal for pre, post-rain emergency plan in City
KARACHI - Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal has directed all the CDGK EDOs to prepare District rain emergency, relief and rescue ...
Ustad Bukhari, the voice of love and liberty
KARACHI - The poet is representative of a society; he fights for his people, encourages downtrodden, infuses confidence into ...
Lahore
Yousuf hopes to impress selectors
LAHORE - Mohammad Yousuf has expressed his desire to once again represent Pakistan. Talking to journalists, he said that he ...
PCB chief rejects list of probables
LAHORE - PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has rejected the probable list of Pakistan A team players finalised by the selection committee. ...
'Coup detat' after Bar accepts Gondal genuine
LAHORE - Lawyers backed by Hamid Khan, head of powerful Professional Group, Friday thrashed President Lahore High Court Bar ...
Suo moto proceedings disposed of
LAHORE - Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday disposed of a suo moto proceedings on the ...
Govt to purge exam system of booti mafia: Shahbaz
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said government is implementing a comprehensive strategy for economic ...
Qualms over delay in 'N' reorganisation, party polls
LAHORE - The fate of reorganisation and party elections in Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) hangs in balance for the last ...
Rights body concerned over jazia imposition
LAHORE - National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) has expressed serious concern over the imposition of jazia by the ...
'Sultan Bahu's work shows wisdom, spirituality'
LAHORE - Hazrat Sultan Bahu was not only a saint but also a scholar of great repute. He was acknowledged as one of the most ...
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