Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Front Page
Nawaz offers cooperation to PPP
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Monday announced his full-fledged cooperation to PPP govt to change the fate of the nation while inviting all the political parties to join hands to make Pakistan prosperous. Addressing the party General Council meeting held at his residence in Raiwind here on ...
Pakistan Day celebrated
LAHORE - The 69th Pakistan Day was celebrated through out Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on Monday in a befitting ...
Bomber hits police station, kills guard
ISLAMABAD - One policeman was killed and three others were injured Monday evening when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the ...
International
Olmert warns of Israel isolation on world stage
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned his likely successor Benjamin Netanyahu that he risks isolating ...
Top PLO official killed in Lebanon bombing
SIDON, Lebanon (AFP) - A top Palestinian official and three other people were killed in a roadside bombing outside a restive ...
Iraq asks Kurd rebels to lay down arms amid Turkish visit
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq on Monday warned Turkish Kurdish rebels based in its northern mountains to lay down their guns or leave the ...
Blasts claim 33 lives
BAQUBA (AFP) - At least 25 people were killed and 50 others were wounded in a suicide bomb attack as a Kurdish family was ...
Indira grandson censured over Indian poll speech
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's election authorities have reprimanded the grandson of former premier Indira Gandhi for making "highly ...
Thousands protest against new Madagascar leader
ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - Thousands of Madagascans on Monday protested Andry Rajoelina's army-backed rise to power, piling further ...
Jerusalem violated medical ethics in Gaza: report
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's army violated codes of ethics and international law during the war in Gaza by attacking medics and ...
China, Japan meet over NKorea
BEIJING (AFP) - Japan's top nuclear negotiator met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday for talks expected to focus ...
Dalai Lama denied visa
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa said Monday the Dalai Lama has been denied a visa to meet here with other Nobel laureates, ...
Two killed in plane crash at Tokyo airport
TOKYO (AFP) - A FedEx cargo plane en route from China crashed in high winds and exploded in a ball of flames Monday at Tokyo's ...
England favourites to stage IPL despite problems
LONDON (AFP) - England may be in pole position to stage the Indian Premier League (IPL), now that security fears have forced the ...
Nadal crushes Murray in Indian Wells Masters final
INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - World number one Rafael Nadal crushed Scotland's Andy Murray 6-1, 6-2 Sunday to win the Indian ...
Zvonareva blows past Ivanovic for WTA title
INDIAN WELLS (California) (AFP) - Vera Zvonareva captured the biggest title of her career Sunday, defeating former world number ...
Smith returns for ODIs against Australia
CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Graeme Smith returns as captain in the South African squad for the first two of five one-day internationals ...
Business
US unveils public private plan for toxic assets
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Treasury unveiled a long-awaited plan Monday to buy up toxic assets clogging the financial system ...
India rolls out world cheapest car
MUMBAI (AFP) - India's Tata Motors on Monday launched the world's cheapest car, the Nano, hoping to revolutionise travel for ...
Global stocks rally before launch of US toxic asset plan
LONDON (AFP) - Global stock markets surged Monday as investor optimism grew ahead of the official launch of a 500-billion-dollar ...
Eurozone trade deficit swells as exports collapse
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The 16 euro nations saw their trade balance with the rest the world deteriorate in January as exports collapsed ...
Japan's corporate gloom deepens, land prices drop
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan announced Monday a sharp drop in business confidence and the first fall in land prices in three years, ...
Philips to help overcome energy crisis
KARACHI - Philips Pakistan will not promote any lighting products in Pakistan which are not energy efficient or do not comply ...
Singapore inflation rate highest in 28 years
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore's inflation rate climbed to its highest level in 28 years in 2008, with the poor being the hardest ...
Euro gains versus dollar
LONDON (AFP) - The European single currency climbed against the dollar on Monday as a US plan to unload troubled assets from the ...
Canadian oil cos Suncor, Petro agree to merge
MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian oil companies Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada on Monday announced a decision to merge in a transaction ...
Oil hits multi-month peaks
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices hit multi-month highs on Monday, driven by soaring world stock markets and a weaker dollar ahead of ...
Politics
Zardari welcomes Sharifs' overtures
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday expressed satisfaction over the positive response by the PML-N leadership to ...
Afghan exit strategy must
NEW YORK - With the Afghan war going badly for the US-led coalition troops, President Barack Obama has signalled that the ...
Centcom advisor worried over rising extremism
WASHINGTON - As Pakistan moves towards stability following the recent political crisis, a top Advisor to the US Central Command ...
Quetta Taliban's HQ
US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said that Pakistan's city Quetta appears to be ...
Foreign hand behind attack on Lanka team: FM
MULTAN - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi disclosed on Monday that traces of foreign powers' involvement were found in ...
Kasab says he is Pakistani
MUMBAI (Agencies) - The lone militant suspect captured by police during the Mumbai attacks told an Indian court Monday he was ...
Asif to address Parliament on 28th
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan said that President Asif Ali Zardari would address the ...
Review petition in consultation with PML-N
ISLAMABAD (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday have instructed Attorney ...
Troops destroy rebel positions in Balochistan
QUETTA (AFP) - Troops Monday destroyed two militant hideouts in Balochistan, where a UN official was kidnapped last month, ...
Pakistan 10th in media killings 'impunity index'
NEW YORK - Pakistan ranks 10th among 14 countries where journalists have been killed, the 2009 Global Impunity Index of the New ...
'PML-N not to make alliance with PPP'
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) would neither make alliance with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) nor Pakistan Muslim ...
PPP and 'N' join hands again, says Mukhtar
Gujrat - Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said that PPP and PML-N have decided to work together in the centre and Punjab, as ...
Taliban kill eight Afghan policemen
KABUL (AFP) - Taliban fighters ambushed a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing eight policemen, a senior ...
CEC appointment not according to CoD
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif has asked Prime Minster Yusuf Raza Gilani to withdraw the ...
Aitzaz quits lawyers' politics
KARACHI - Prominent leader of lawyers' movement, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, Monday said that after the reinstatement of CJP Iftikhar ...
Kids among 14 dead in US plane crash
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US investigators searched for clues Monday after a small plane taking children to a ski trip crashed in a ...
'Cross-border elements may create tension in IHK polls'
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - "Mischievous elements" from across the border may try to create tension during elections in Jammu and ...
40 Taliban promise to shun militancy
PESHAWAR - At least 40 Taliban militants from Bajaur have promised to bring a change in their lives and to give up militancy ...
Kashmir clashes death toll rises to 19
SRINAGAR (Agencies) - The death toll from days of fierce fighting between troops and freedom fighters in Indian Kashmir has risen ...
CJP to start duty from today
ISLAMABAD (ONLINE) - Reinstated Chief Justice Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Ch will formally return to his ...
Entertainment
Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide
LONDON (AFP) - The son of tragedy-scarred poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has killed himself 46 years after his mother ...
Edgy? No, we're quite relaxed perched atop a 530ft drop
MUCH closer to the edge of the crumbling chalk cliffs at Beachy Head and these four friends would not have enjoyed a great deal ...
Brain 'joins the dots' when drawing a cartoon face from memory
IN a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record ...
Jade Goody's funeral to be screened on television
JADE Goody's funeral will be screened on live television, her family have confirmed. The celebrity Big Brother star's publicist ...
Katie Holmes plays babysitter for Beckhams
IT seems Katie Holmes is someone Victoria Beckham can rely on when she needs a friend to look after her children at the last ...
British actress Natasha Richardson buried
NEW YORK AFP) - British actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday after a skiing accident, was buried in northern New ...
Islamabad
Capital's hospitals treating 700 pollen allergy patients daily
ISLAMABAD - Capital hospitals are receiving more than 700 patients a day, as the pollen count in the city has reached its ...
QAU holds spring flowers exhibition
islamabad: Spring arrived with its own share of colours and happiness. Multicoloured flowers can be seen blooming in gardens, ...
Plan to launch mass awareness on water scarcity underway
ISLAMABAD - A special event will be held today (Tuesday) to mobilise people about the issues related to scarcity of water and ...
IIU to celebrate cultural week from 26th
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - The International Islamic University (IIU) women campus would hold its annual international cultural week from ...
Written test mandatory for SHOs
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Inspector General of Police, Islamabad Syed Qalb-e-Abbas has made compulsory a written test for police ...
Colour waves from NWFP bring peace message to capital
ISLAMABAD-An exhibition of folk painting on "Colour Waves" by a known folk artist Liaquat Ali Khan opened here at Heritage ...
Karachi
Sindh Governor, CM pay homage to Quaid
KARACHI - Sindh Governor, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, and members of the provincial cabinet ...
Ebad gives away awards on Pakistan Day
KARACHI - Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, on behalf of President of Pakistan, has given away civil awards to as many as ...
Street crimes on the rise in coastal villages
KARACHI - A sharp rise in street crimes in the villages along the coastal belt has created an alarming situation for local ...
Altaf demands provincial autonomy for all units
KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Monday underlined the need to grant provincial autonomy to all the four federating units ...
From 'Get-Punjab' to get trust plan
The strategy being pursued actively by PPP leaders, especially President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, ...
Coke Studio returns with new artists
KARACHI - After the unprecedented acclaim and popularity of Season 1, Coke Studio reignites our passion and returns to the heart ...
Lahore
Quaid's leadership made Pak Movement successful
LAHORE - Justice (r) Dr Javed Iqbal has said that the religious fervour, enthusiasm, application of mind and able leadership of ...
Hospital operation theatres closed
LAHORE - Lady Wellington Hospital has closed down its operation theatres and labour rooms during the loadshedding hours due to ...
Governor confers civil awards
LAHORE - Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer gave away civil awards to 44 personalities on behalf of the President for outstanding ...
Islam allows stem cell research: Israr
LAHORE - Punjab University Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) organised a workshop on 'Ethical Issues Related to ...
Police fail to arrest TV reporter's murderers
LAHORE - The police have failed to arrest the robbers involved in the murder of a local news channel reporter. Police said ...
High BP, sugar patients soft targets of kidney diseases
LAHORE - The high blood pressure and sugar patients are the soft targets to become victim of kidney diseases as well as ...
Pakistan beat Ghana 7-0 in Five-nation Hockey
LAHORE - The Pakistan junior hockey team beat Ghana by seven goals to nil in the second match of Five-nation Junior Hockey ...
Pakistan women cricket team arrives today
LAHORE - The Pakistan women cricket team after its maiden World Cup appearance will reach Karachi Airport on Tuesday (today). It ...
PCB urged to dedicate enclosure to Dar
LAHORE - Lahore city cricket council member and former first class cricketer Tahir Shah has asked the PCB to name one of the ...
Davis to replace Dar in West Indies
LAHORE - ICC Emirates Elite Panel Umpire Aleem Dar will be replaced by Steve Davis in the remaining three ODIs of the five-match ...
Olympic inquiry committee meeting today
LAHORE - The inquiry committee meeting called by Sports Ministry to find out the reasons of Pakistan hockey team's debacle at the ...
PCB to talk to BCCI over Pakistan players future in IPL
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has said it would contact its Indian counterpart and seek advice from its government on the ...
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