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, March 16, 2009
Front Page
Justice restored
HAQ NAWAZ & Abrar Saeed ISLAMABAD - Following series of negotiations, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced early this morning (Monday), to reinstate Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary as Chief Justice of Pakistan to avert political crisis. Announcing the decision, the Prime Minister ...
Tense day yields all smiles
Islamabad - Intense reconciliation efforts finally led to steering the country out of the turmoil, pleasantly changing the hot ...
Nawaz calls off long march
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif stole the show as he led the long march on Sunday and headed for the Constitution Avenue in ...
International
Cheney asserts Obama has raised security risks
NEW YORK - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday again asserted that President Barack Obama has made the country less safe, ...
Countries must do more to protect water during wartime: ICRC
ISTANBUL (AFP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged the international community Sunday to protect crucial ...
Taliban chief backs Afghan peace talks
LONDON (Agencies) - Taliban chief Mullah Omar has given his approval for talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan and has ...
OPEC keeps oil output unchanged, urges compliance
VIENNA (AFP) - The OPEC oil cartel on Sunday froze its output at current levels and urged its 12 member nations to comply with ...
Judges, HR figures call for Gaza 'abuses' probe
LONDON (AFP) - A group of the world's most experienced judges and human rights investigators called Monday for a full ...
4 Koreans killed in blast
SANAA (AFP) - Four South Korean tourists were killed and four more wounded by an explosion in the historic city of Shibam in ...
Saudi FM criticises Iran
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Sunday expressed reservations over how Iran supports Arab ...
Time for Hamas prisoner swap talks: Israel
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Egyptian-brokered negotiations on a prisoner swap with Hamas are at a crucial stage and any deal will be ...
Sri Lanka troops smash Tiger post
COLOMBO (Agencies) - Government forces overran a former Tamil Tiger police post Sunday, killing at least nine rebels and raising ...
Ahmadinejad protests after Iran MPs reject fuel hike
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has protested against parliament's decision to scrap from the latest budget a ...
Most Israelis back armed conflict: polls
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Most Palestinians support attacks on civilians inside Israel, while most Israelis support further military ...
Amir Khan registers easy win over veteran Barrera
MANCHESTER (AFP) - Amir Khan described the most significant victory of his career as "easy" after winning a fifth round ...
Sri Lanka senior players want better security
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's new cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara and star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan say they want security ...
England have point to prove in Twenty20
PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad) (AFP) - England continue their tour of the Caribbean with the solitary Twenty20 International on the ...
Federer advances as women's seeds tumble
INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - Roger Federer shook off the rust of a six-week break on Saturday, his smooth progress into the ...
Number one Nadal imposing, not invincible, says Djokovic
INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - Confidence and concentration make world number one Rafael Nadal a formidable foe, but they ...
Essien guides Chelsea back into second
LONDON (AFP) - Michael Essien confirmed his return could have a major influence on Chelsea's triple bid for honours by striking ...
Voronin flying high as Hertha stay top
BERLIN (AFP) - Having hit his 11th goal of the season and his eighth in six games, Hertha Berlin striker Andrei Voronin says his ...
Politics
Festivity outside CJ house
ISLAMABAD - Protests turned into festivity across the country including the federal capital in the wee hours Monday when the news ...
One year, 4 months and 12 days
LAHORE - The announcement for the restoration of November 2, 2007 judiciary has come about after one year, four months and 12 ...
PPP Parliamentary Secy resigns; Dy AG quits
LAHORE - Deputy Attorney of Pakistan Abdul Hayee Gillani has resigned to record his protest against the torture on the lawyers ...
Too many cooks...
LAHORE - The PPP stalwarts are coming up with different explanations of resignation by Information Minister Sherry Rehman, but ...
Drawing a parallel between 1977, 2009
LAHORE - The March 15, 2009 would be remembered in the history of Lahore as a major event of the long march takeoff to Islamabad ...
Unprecedented public response
LAHORE- The lawyers' long march has turned into a long march of the masses after tens of thousands moved as per schedule from ...
Timeline
2007 Mar 9: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf sacks supreme court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry after he ruled against a ...
Pindi witnesses worst kind of blockade
RAWALPINDI - The law enforcement agencies on Sunday virtually besieged Rawalpindi city and used all available means to cut it off ...
20 containers carrying Nato supplies torched
PESHAWAR - The unknown miscreants attacked the containers carrying huge supplies for US-led allied and Nato forces camping across ...
'Govt ready to resolve issues thru Parliament'
ISLAMABAD - Amid continued reconciliatory efforts, the Presidency is insisting to resolve all the outstanding issues including ...
Kurd again offloaded at Quetta Airport
QUETTA - President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ali Ahmed Kurd along with President PML-N Balochistan Sardar Yaqoob Khan ...
Four American soldiers killed
KABUL (AFP) - A string of bombs ripped through parts of Afghanistan on Sunday, killing four US soldiers and three Afghan ...
4 die in US shooting
MIAMI (AFP) - A Miami man shot four people dead early Sunday then killed himself, in what police said may have been the bloody ...
More killings in DI Khan
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Two Sunni men were shot dead Sunday in the second apparent sectarian attack in a restive town of northwest ...
Long march to encourage provincialism, says Fazl
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chief of Jamiat Ulema e Islam (Fazl) Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Sunday that the Chief of Pakistan Muslim League ...
Javed Hashmi arrested
ISLAMABAD - Central leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Javed Hashmi was arrested by police when he was coming out of ...
UK concerned over growing political crisis
LONDON (AFP) - Britain expressed concern Sunday about the escalating crisis in Pakistan but welcomed the government's promise to ...
Mukhtaran Mai ties the knot
Mukhtaran Bibi, known as Mukhtaran Mai, has got married to a police constable in her native village in Muzaffargarh, reported a ...
MQM threatens to quit ruling alliance
Karachi - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), silently noticing the fast developing situation in the national politics as the long ...
Rehman again offers safe venue for sit-in
ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has again offered lawyers another place "Sharkarparian Parade Group" to hold ...
Entertainment
I'm pleased with career, says Julia
JULIA Roberts said she would not have believed the career she has enjoyed when she made Pretty Woman nearly 20 years ago. At a ...
Scientists use laser gun to kill mosquitoes
SCIENTISTS who worked the Star Wars anti-missile programme in the United States are building a ray-gun than can kill mosquitoes ...
'The unexpected outcome' is a key to human learning
THE human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviours, ...
More Michael dates added
CONCERT promoters more than doubled Jackson's summer run of concerts in London after advance tickets sold out within hours of ...
Charity concerts raise $5m
IF there was any rivalry about which state staged the best show to raise money for the Victorian bushfires and the floods in ...
Marsh 'may quit for Hollywood'
KYM Marsh is considering quitting the show to make a fresh start in the US, according to a report. The actress, who plays ...
Karachi
Long march is conspiracy against govt, says minister
LARKANA - Provincial Minister for Law and President District Bar Association Larkana Mohammed Ayaz Soomro on Sunday said that the ...
MQM to defeat Taliban, says Altaf
KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday said that Taliban encircled the metropolis but we would ...
Arrangements for ZA Bhutto's 30th death anniversary
LARKANA - Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Mazar Committee (SZABMC) in its meeting held Sunday at PPP secretariat chaired by its ...
Sindh goverment, CDGK vow to work for quality education
KARACHI - Cooperation between CDGK and Sindh government is proving beneficial for the future of education in the metropolis and ...
SIUT conducts 2,000 kidney tests
KARACHI - Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) has conducted more than 2,000 Kidney Function Tests of common ...
Long March & decisive phase of political chaos
The Long March and the political chaos in the country have finally entered the decisive phase on Sunday. The mammoth rally of ...
Lahore
Low-spirited police fail to stop marchers
LAHORE - All the strategies to contain the long march and stop Nawaz Sharf to mount a big show failed due to lack of coordination ...
Kite-flying claims 3 minors' lives
LAHORE - Three minors died while over 50 other people mostly children were injured in the kite-flying festival of Basant in the ...
Basant turns out to be a low-key event
LAHORE - The much-hyped Basant turned into a low-key event on Sunday with the long march remaining the talk of the town as ...
Long March or Basant?
The Long March is over, at least the Sunday part, but it has not yet shown any result, so it is not yet over. Most importantly, ...
Sit-in to last till judges made functional: Aitzaz
LAHORE - Chairman National Coordination Committee Aitzaz Ahsan has announced repeating the long march on Islamabad for staging ...
Complete shutterdown strike today
LAHORE - The All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran (leading trade union) has announced to observe complete shutter down strike on ...
Pakistan shatter Indian dream with come-from-behind title win
LAHORE - Pakistan junior hockey team turned tables on arch rivals India in the final to clinch the Four-Nation Junior Hockey ...
Harper-led Telenor notch up Pakistan Cup
LAHORE - Telenor had the last laugh in the narrowly contested (7-5) final of the A and A Pakistan Cup Polo tournament at the ...
Pakistan, Bangladesh series could be cancelled
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is still awaiting confirmation of the bilateral series against Bangladesh and it seems like ...
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