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 Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Front Page
Iftikhar gets his job back
ISLAMABAD - Zardari regime on Tuesday issued two separate notifications for restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the other deposed judges to the position of November 2, 2007, the day when former dictator Pervez Musharraf sacked them after suspending the Constitution and ...
Govt against Governor Rule in Punjab: Gilani
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the federal government is against Governor Rule in Punjab and ...
Patch-up on CoD basis possible: 'N'
LAHORE - Reconciliatory efforts between Sharifs and President Asif Zaradri have picked momentum some hours after the restoration ...
International
Russia orders large-scale nuclear modernisation
MOSCOW (Agencies) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a "large-scale" rearmament and modernisation of Russia's ...
Israel-Hamas prisoner swap negotiations sink
JERUSALEM (Agencies) - Two senior Israeli envoys have returned from indirect talks with Hamas in Cairo without a deal on the ...
China voices concern over Korean peninsula
BEIJING (AFP) - China voiced its concern Tuesday over what it said was an increasingly uncertain situation on the Korean ...
Madagascan army transfers power to opposition leader
ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - The Madagascan army transferred power to opposition leader Andry Rajoelina during a ceremony attended by ...
Build-up no threat to US: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Russia's plans to renew its military and nuclear arsenal are not cause for alarm, the US Defence Department ...
Secret Indian army papers found in shops
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - An Indian Army intelligence unit has seized a pile of top-secret documents from two shops in Ludhiana. ...
'Weaponry could defend US against N Korean missile'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military would be able to defend the United States against any ballistic missile fired by the North ...
Political crisis jeopardizes US aid plan for Pakistan: WP
WASHINGTON - Pakistan's ongoing political crisis threatens to upend a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy that envisages greatly ...
'Right Choice', says NYT
NEW YORK - A leading US newspaper Tuesday welcomed President Asif Ali Zardari's decision to restore Chief Justice Iftikhar ...
US attitude towards Nawaz changing: report
NEW YORK - The United States' attitude towards Nawaz Sharif, the PML leader from whom Washington kept its distance, is undergoing ...
Bangladesh postpones Pakistan tour
DHAKA (AFP) - The Bangladesh government Tuesday postponed the Pakistan cricket team's scheduled March tour and put a stop to all ...
'Dragon Ladies' breathe fire into women's tour
SINGAPORE (AFP) - A group of five women dubbed the "Dragon Ladies" are taking the US LPGA Tour by storm, breathing new fire into ...
India favourites to avenge New Zealand record
HAMILTON (New Zealand) (AFP) - India regroup after outplaying New Zealand in the one-day series with an even more ominous line-up ...
Business
Block-8 given to Dubai and Korea
KARACHI - The Thar Coal and Energy Board has decided to give Block-8 to Bin Daen Group Dubai and PEDCO, Korea, to exploit Thar ...
Oil, gas output dips by 2.2pc in 7 months
KARACHI - The overall oil and gas production in the country has decreased to 726.670 million barrels of oil equivalent per day ...
Sindh prepares 13 projects to get loans from Friends of Pakistan
KARACHI - The Sindh government has prepared a list of development projects to be presented before the coming meeting of the ...
TDAP urged to facilitate exporters
ISLAMABAD - Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) should provide maximum support and facilitation services to the ...
SECP introduces amends for documents online submission
KARACHI - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) introduced amendments in the Sixth Schedule to the Companies ...
Unicorn Bank to invest another $12.9m in DIBL
KARACHI - Dawood Islamic Bank Limited has received Rs 1 billion investment from Unicorn Investment Bank Limited, based in ...
Bull-run continues as market gains another 74 points
KARACHI - The Karachi Stock Exchange continued to depict bullish sentiment on Tuesday and the KSE-100 Index once again closed in ...
KSE capital up by Rs106 billion in two days
KARACHI - The market capitalisation of KSE-100 index has edged up by Rs 106 billion in just two days mainly because of the ...
European SMEs ready to invest in Pakistan
LAHORE - A large number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Europe are ready to make investment in Pakistan provided ...
'Food Dept delaying wheat procurement'
LAHORE - Chairman Agri Forum Pakistan Ibrahim Mughal on Tuesday said that the Punjab Food Department has not completed the ...
Politics
Hamid Mirza made CEC
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has appointed Justice (Retd) Hamid Ali Mirza as new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), an ...
BB pledge fulfilled: Zardari
ISLAMABAD - Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani called on President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday. He briefed ...
Is it all over for PPP in Punjab?
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari's Punjab adventure always seemed to have a dubious chance of success even after he put all ...
Taseer blames agencies for failure to stop long march
ISLAMABAD - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer on Tuesday evening held separate meetings with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ...
Qazis start work in Swat
MINGORA (Agencies) - Judges trained in Islamic law began reviewing cases Tuesday in Swat Valley where the government has alarmed ...
Indira grandson vows to cut Muslims' heads
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Cracking the whip, the Indian Election Commission on Tuesday moved against Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata ...
Iftikhar to decide Kh Sharif's fate
LAHORE - It has been left to restored Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to decide as to who would be the CJ of the Lahore ...
Asif, Chaudhrys discuss future coalition
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi have quietly visited ...
Scrutiny of Indian replies starts
ISLAMABAD - The replies given by India to Pakistan's 30 questions on Mumbai attacks include the DNA profiles of lone surviving ...
UN official welcomes judges' reinstatement
UNITED NATIONS - The UN human rights chief has welcomed the government's decision to reinstate deposed Supreme Court Chief ...
Indian response handed over to FIA for probe
ISLAMABAD - After reviewing the Indian reply to the Pakistani questions about the investigation of Mumbai terror attacks, the ...
FIA obtains remand of 3 suspects in Mumbai case
RAWALPINDI - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) obtained physical remand of three suspects allegedly involved in last year's ...
Cop faces trial for not thrashing marchers
ISLAMABAD - The defiant Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Raja Arshad who declined to bow down to the orders of high-ups to thrash ...
Naek for galvanising Senate Sectt into action
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman Senate, Farooq H Naek has asked Senate Secretariat to shake off lethargy and inertia immediately and ...
LTTE asked to shun violence
ISLAMABAD - The President of Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) has urged the Tamil Tigers to give up the policy of blood ...
PA resumes controversial session today
LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly would resume its sitting on Wednesday (today) after break of 12 days. The last sitting of ...
Meeting held to review Armed Forces uplift plans
ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting was held on Tuesday at the Joint Staff Headquarters to monitor and review the development plans ...
4 Afghan cops and Australian soldier killed
KABUL (AFP) - Insurgents ambushed and killed four Afghan policemen Tuesday, the interior ministry said, as military forces ...
Australia urges political harmony
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia urged Pakistan's rival political parties Tuesday to work together to combat the "common enemy" of ...
Entertainment
Egyptian's 3,500-year-old tomb discovered
MADRID (AFP) - A tomb decorated with 3,500-year-old paintings has been discovered in Luxor by a Spanish Egyptologist, Spain's ...
How many rainbows in this picture?
FOR Australian amateur photographer Nola Davies it was the snap of a lifetime: six individual rainbows curving beautifully into ...
Jennifer Aniston set to be Bond girl
JENNIFER Aniston is being considered for a role in the next James Bond film. The ex-'Friends' star, who has spoken of her desire ...
Witch Mountain casts box office spell
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain," kept North American filmgoers spellbound over the weekend and was the ...
Natasha in ski accident
NATASHA Richardson, the actress wife of Liam Neeson, is in a Montreal hospital after a skiing accident in Canada, her family has ...
Climate-related changes affect life on the Antarctic Peninsula
SCIENTISTS have long established that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. Now, new ...
Islamabad
12 brick kilns directed to stop functioning
ISLAMABAD - Realising the fact that smoke emitting Brick Kilns near Benazir Bhutto International Airport are causing air ...
Diabetic Foot Clinic set up at PIMS
ISLAMABAD - To control the increasing diabetic foot infection cases, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has taken the ...
Youth capable of bringing laurels to country: PM
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said that the Pakistani youth had great potential to excel in all fields and bring ...
RPO forms body to probe police's action against lawyers
SHAHID RAO/ israr ahmed RAWALPINDI - The Regional Police Officer (RPO) Rawalpindi, Nasir Khan Durrani, Tuesday constituted a four ...
Jharoka holds press preview of spring extravaganza
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Jharoka Art Gallery here Tuesday previewed a spring show of paintings carrying a collection of multi-coloured ...
LHC disposes of habeas corpus petition
RAWALPINDI - A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Tuesday disposed of a habeas corpus petition seeking ...
Karachi
Rickshaws to be converted on CNG by June 2010
KARACHI - The provincial government has set June 30, 2010 as the new deadline for rickshaw owners to convert their two-stroke ...
Govt assistance sought for Gora Qabristan rehab
KARACHI - The Gora Qabristan, a cemetery in the metropolis, is one of the oldest cemeteries of the Christian community in the ...
Varsity can help govt increase chilli export
KARACHI - Karachi University (KU) has potential to assist Pakistani government to increase production and export of Red Chillies, ...
Redbook on 87 wanted terrorists released
KARACHI - The new version of Redbook, seeking information about some 87 most wanted terrorists belonging to various outlawed ...
CDGK to establish model English schools in each town
KARACHI - City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is working on a plan to establish English medium schools at town level where ...
Blue bottles - no more life threatening
KARACHI - Blue bottles are no longer to be considered as life threatening, as it was previously largely believed. It is now ...
Rawalpindi Rams thrash hapless Abbottabad Rhinos
KARACHI - Rawalpindi Rams dismissed Abbottabad Rhinos to a low total and raced to the wining total in just seventeen overs to ...
Lahore
Bureaucracy distances from political wrangling
LAHORE - There is yet another twist in the tale for the PPP men in the Punjab as its own chosen bureaucracy has distanced itself ...
Lawyers offer Nawafil-e-Shukrana
LAHORE - Lawyers on Tuesday continued their celebrations on the restoration of judiciary, offered Nawafil-e-Shukrana ...
PCO judges lose moral, legal grounds: Siddiqui
LAHORE- President Lahore High Court Bar Association, MA Shahid Siddiqui has said the PCO judges have lost moral and legal grounds ...
2 women among four die in road accidents
LAHORE - Four people including two women were killed and four others were injured in separate road accidents in City on ...
PU appoints new Director ICS
LAHORE - Vice Chancellor Punjab University Dr Mujahid Kamran has appointed Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz Associate Professor of ICS as new ...
Three out of 10 LHC judges restored
LAHORE - Ten judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) were sacked through November 3, 2007 PCO, the number reduced to three after ...
PCB to get $2.75m as Trophy compensation
LAHORE - The cash-strapped Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will get a financial boost later this year as it is set to receive $2.75 ...
Zia sees off Pakistan Jr hockey team from Lahore
LAHORE - Pakistan junior hockey team will leave for Egypt on Wednesday morning to participate in five-nation junior hockey ...
PCB's constitution finalised
LAHORE - Pakistan's sports ministry has finalised a new amended constitution of the Pakistan Cricket Board that is aimed at ...
Woolmer's death was not an event to settle scores
LAHORE - Two years down the line, Pakistan cricket lost its most cherished coach Bob Woolmer after their defeat at the hands of ...
Kiwis shatter India's final hopes
LAHORE - New Zealand inched closer to the Women Cricket World Cup final with a five-wicket win over India in the Super Six stage ...
PHF's foreign trainer visits historical places
LAHORE - Foreign physical trainer of Pakistan hockey team Jos Geijsal visited the historical places of Lahore on Tuesday. He ...
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