Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Warrant issued for ex-Maldives president
- Nato supplies continue through Pak airspace: Munter
- Contempt appeal: SC asks Aitzaz to complete arguments on Friday
- Khar says drone attacks multiply militants
The Nation in print for Thursday, March 19, 2009
Front Page
Nawaz wants govt restoration
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said that people's mandate has been violated on February 25 by imposing the Governor Rule in the Punjab, and removal of an elected government, which should be restored to its original position immediately. "Neither there was nor there is any room for the ...
US mulls drone hits in Balochistan
NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama and security advisers are considering pushing airstrikes against the Taliban in Pakistan ...
Judges assume office
LAHORE/Quetta/Karachi - Reinstated judges of Supreme Court and high courts on Wednesday assumed charge of their offices. On being ...
International
Hundreds of new US civilian employees proposed for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of additional U.S. diplomats and civilian officials would be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the new ...
Bashir indictment 'racist'
UNITED NATIONS - UN General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a harsh critic of Israel and the United States, has ...
Sexual assaults on rise in US mily: Pentagon
WASHINGTON - Reports of sexual assaults among members of the US military increased by eight per cent in fiscal year 2008 that ...
Obama's info chief guilty of theft in youth
WASHINGTON - Vivek Kundra, the Obama Administration's chief information officer pleaded guilty to a petty theft charge 13 years ...
US lawmakers caution Obama on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked President Barack Obama to reconsider the deployment of 17,000 ...
Ryder, Vettori centuries spare Kiwis blushes
HAMILTON (New Zealand) (AFP) - A defiant captain's century by Daniel Vettori and a maiden ton for Jesse Ryder rescued New Zealand ...
Barack Obama deserves my silence, says Bush
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US president George W Bush, in his first post-presidency speech, refrained from criticising President ...
Fritzl lets mask slip as his daughter tells her tragic story
SANKT POELTEN, Austria, (AFP) - Josef Fritzl changed his plea Wednesday to guilty of murder and slavery in a move that stunned ...
UK police admit abusing Muslim
LONDON (AFP) - London's police on Tuesday admitted abusing a terror suspect, subjecting him to prolonged violent assaults and ...
Hamas to hike price for Shalit
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The armed branch of Hamas blamed Israel on Wednesday for the collapse of prisoner swap talks and warned it ...
Kuwaiti parliament dissolution okayed
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - The Kuwaiti cabinet approved a decree on Wednesday to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections within two ...
Kallis denies tensions in South African camp
CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Stand-in South African captain Jacques Kallis said Wednesday there were no tensions in the camp ahead of the ...
Ana in quarters, Nadal, Djokovic set for semis clash
INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - World number one Rafael Nadal and defending champion Novak Djokovic stayed on course for a ...
Business
CCP imposes penalties on KSE, LSE and ISE
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Wednesday passed an order against KSE, LSE and ISE for ...
Foreign investment down 34.2pc; FDI up
KARACHI - Despite global economic recession and domestic political instability, the pace of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in ...
LSM growth down 5.35pc
ISLAMABAD - Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) growth has declined by 5.35 per cent during the first seven months (July-January) of ...
Sindh for action against fake insurance companies
KARACHI - Sindh government has sent an application to FIA and provincial Anti-Corruption Establishment Department for initiating ...
KSE continues non-stop upward march; up 127 points
KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange continued its non-stop upward march as the KSE-100 Index added another 127.47 points on ...
Electronic trading of debt instruments at KSE sought
KARACHI - Governor SBP, Syed Salim Raza has suggested the KSE management to focus on trading of debt instruments electronically ...
Islamic banks share to surge to 12pc by '12
KARACHI - Islamic banking in Pakistan is growing rapidly and it has been expected that by the end of 2012 its total share in the ...
Growers fear mismanagement in wheat procurement
LAHORE - The political uncertainty in the Punjab province, the mainstay of country's agriculture, is multiplying the worries of ...
Int'l safe food moot on 26th
KARACHI - The 8th International Safe Food Conference will be organised at a local hotel on March 26. This was announced by the ...
SECP notifies proposed amendments/modifications
ISLAMABAD - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has notified the proposed amendments/modifications in the ...
Politics
Taseer warns against 'horse-trading'
LAHORE - Governor Punjab, Salman Taseer, while urging the political parties to stop politics of 'forward blocs' and ...
Aitzaz smells a rat
ISLAMABAD - The kingpin of lawyers' movement and former President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan ...
4 securitymen killed in Dir gunfight
PESHAWAR (Agencies) - Four securitymen were killed and four others wounded Wednesday in a gunfight with militants in a northwest ...
Abolish major powers' UN veto right: Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan on Tuesday joined other developing countries and some European nations in calling for abolishing the ...
Nato truck bombed
QUETTA - A trailer carrying excavating machine to Afghanistan for Nato troops was partially damaged when unknown men attacked it ...
No dispute with Zardari, says Sanam
ISLAMABAD - The President's spokesman Farhatullah Babar has deplored the publication of reports in a section of the press based ...
Fauzia Wahab new PPP Info Secretary
ISLAMABAD - President and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari Wednesday appointed Fauzia Wahab as new Information Secretary of the ...
I didn't resign from party post: Sherry
ISLAMABAD - Former Federal Minister for Information Sherry Rehman said that she had not resigned from the slot of Party's ...
PPP decision on Punjab govt today
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in a one-on-one meeting here at Aiwan-i-Sadr ...
US must consult Russia, Iran on Afghanistan: FM
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Wednesday asked the United States to review its policy of drone attacks while dismissing as speculative ...
NA could not do much in first year
ISLAMABAD - In its first parliamentary year the National Assembly could not undertake much of the legislation, especially as ...
Gates asks Pakistan to hit Taliban in Balochistan; promises US help
WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Robert Gates has pledged United States help to Pakistan in curbing the Taliban activities in ...
Top cops were sleeping at home: inquiry report
LAHORE - An inquiry report ordered by the provincial government to probe into security lapses has revealed that all the concerned ...
Italian co to double oil, gas production
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan offered attractive opportunities and a level-playing field to both ...
Attacks planned in Pakistan, says Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's intelligence agency claimed Wednesday that last month's attacks on government buildings in Kabul were ...
India fears attacks on public rallies by Pak-based groups
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Even as India continues to press Pakistan to act against those behind Mumbai attacks, intelligence ...
US 'intercepts' missile
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military successfully shot down a short-range ballistic missile near Hawaii in a test of its ...
Committee for Solecki's recovery formed
QUETTA - Balochistan government has formed a three-member committee on the directives of the Chief Minister Balochistan for the ...
Taliban threaten to kill Canadian journalist
MIRANSHAH - Unknown Taliban militants on Wednesday threatened to kill Khadeeja Abdul Qahar, a Canadian Muslim female journalist, ...
Taliban commander arrested
PESHAWAR - Maulvi Habibzai, a leading Taliban commander from the border Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, was apprehended by the ...
Obama govt has 'quiet focus' on Kashmir
Washington (Online) - Observing that the Obama administration is looking at Pakistan through a different lens than its ...
Afghan bomb wounds three
KABUL (AFP) - A bomb blast in the Afghan capital Wednesday wounded three people, the government said, as the NATO-led military ...
Entertainment
Injured Richardson flown to US
MONTREAL (AFP) - Acclaimed actress Natasha Richardson suffered a serious head injury while skiing in Canada and was transferred ...
Guitarists' brains swing together
WHEN musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time - their brain waves are too. New research ...
Too much red meat could leave you blind
Eating too much red meat can increase the risk of blindness by half, scientists have warned. A new study shows those who eat ten ...
Green tea, mushrooms cut cancer risk
SYDNEY (AFP) - Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea significantly cut their risk of breast cancer and the severity ...
Hundreds kidnapped in Gambian witch-hunts
BANJUL (AFP) - Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in Gambian witch-hunts and taken to detention centres where they were ...
Walking catfish spotted in Thames
THE air-breathing fish, which can survive out of water for 'extended periods' as it searches for water, was found in the Thames ...
Islamabad
Work on another dam for twin cities from May
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The construction work of Cherah Dam is likely to kick of from May, this year, as feasibility and design of the ...
PRCS treating over 100 patients daily
ISLAMABAD -The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) allergy camps in Islamabad are providing treatment to over 100 patients on ...
HEC remains rudderless
ISLAMABAD - Higher Education Commission (HEC) is still rudderless, as government has failed to appoint permanent chairman of the ...
'PPP fulfilled Benazir's dream by restoring judiciary'
RAWALPINDI - PPP-led government has fulfilled the promise of its slain Chairperson Benazir Bhutto (BB), which she had made with ...
JI slams PCO judges for siding with dictator
RAWALPINDI - All PCO judges who took oath on November 3 2007 under Provisional Constitutional Order should resign from their ...
Integrated encyclopedia of Quran introduced
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The International Islamic University, (IIU) in collaboration with Society for the Quranic Studies arranged a ...
Karachi
Free judiciary yet to be achieved
KARACHI - A delegation of Jamat-e-Islami (JI) on Wednesday visited the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) and congratulated ...
Art's healing hand for ailing humanity
KARACHI - The "Art for Health", an Exhibition-cum-Auction of renowned artists' paintings will be held from 19 to 21 March, at ...
Mangopir college lacks teachers, civic facilities
KARACHI - Students of Intermediate classes at the Government Degree College for Boys, Mangopir, have nearly completed their ...
Sindh gets water from Jhelum River first time, says Marri
Karachi (PPI) - Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri on Wednesday said first time in the history, direct release of water from ...
Assembly greets MQM on silver jubilee
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday congratulated Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) and its chief Altaf Hussain on the 25th ...
PPP activist, 2 others shot dead in City
KARACHI - Three persons, including a local PPP leader, were gunned down in separate incidents here on Wednesday. Abdul Salam ...
Bangladesh move a setback, says Younis
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan captain Younis Khan expressed disappointment Wednesday after Bangladesh postponed Pakistan's tour over ...
Woolmer's death was a great loss
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan captain Younus Khan spoke on Wednesday of how he would never forget Bob Woolmer, as the cricket world ...
Bob was the best coach I ever played under
KARACHI (PPI) - Swashbuckling batsman Shahid Afridi says Bob Woolmer was the best coach among five or six coaches he played ...
Pakistan's Davis Cup tie moved to Manila
KARACHI (PPI) - The scheduled second-round Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone Group II tie between the Philippines and Pakistan has been ...
Afzal of Punjab sends Naveen Perwani packing
KARACHI - Muhammad Afzal of Punjab recorded the biggest upset in the 34th NJI National Snooker when he ousted second seed Naveen ...
Lahore
PA welcomes restoration of judges
LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday welcomed the historic decision of March 16 regarding reinstatement of deposed judges ...
Bureaucracy sets an agenda
LAHORE - Chief Secretary Punjab Naguib Ullah Malik has set an agenda for bureaucracy to stay impartial, and work professionally ...
Two women among three commit suicide
LAHORE - Some three people including two women committed suicide over domestic issues and joblessness in separate incidents in ...
Justice Zahid likely to become SC judge
LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain is likely to be elevated to the Supreme Court (SC). As per sources ...
Rotten bodies of two youth, woman found
LAHORE - Decomposed bodies of two unknown youngsters and a woman were found with multiple torture marks from different parts of ...
Culture determines human response to surroundings
LAHORE - Chairperson Psychology Department Dr Kausar Sohail has said that culture provides its members with an available ...
Woolmer's second death anniversary
LAHORE - Pakistan cricket Wednesday observed the second death anniversary of coach Bob Woolmer who died in the West Indies during ...
Pakistan names team for Azlan Shah Cup
LAHORE - The national selection committee of the Pakistan Hockey Federation announced on Wednesday the 18-member Pakistan team ...
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