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 Sunday, May 17, 2009
Front Page
Bomb blasts rock Peshawar
PESHAWAR - At least 14 persons were killed and 35 others injured as two separate bomb blasts rocked Peshawar on Saturday in what appeared to be the first retaliation for the operation against militants in Swat Valley. According to police officials, the first blast took place in Kakshal area at ...
Congress-led alliance wins election
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs ruling coalition won an overwhelming election victory on Saturday, ...
US missiles hit NW seminary
PESHAWAR - At least 27 people were killed and several others injured when two missiles fired by a US drone hit a ...
International
Lee back in business as Punjab stun IPL leaders
BLOEMFONTEIN (AFP) - Brett Lee believes his recent injury trouble has worked in his favour after a blistering spell of fast ...
Flintoff wants 'fearless' England in Ashes
LONDON (AFP) - Andrew Flintoff has said England must be "fearless without being reckless" if they are to regain the Ashes on home ...
England defend early Test season start
CHESTER-LE-STREET (AFP) - England cricket chiefs on Friday defended their decision to play the West Indies in early May despite ...
Nadal to face Djokovic, Federer clinches 18th win over Roddick
MADRID (AFP) - Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet for the third time in as many Masters events on Saturday after the duo ...
Bolt aims to bounce back from car crash
MANCHESTER (AFP) - Usain Bolt believes he will prove he has recovered from foot surgery when the triple Olympic gold medallist ...
Schnyder stuns Jankovic to reach Madrid semis
MADRID (AFP) - Swiss veteran Patty Schnyder reached the Madrid Open semi-finals on Friday with a shock 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 win over ...
Lankan president declares Tamil Tigers 'defeated'
COLOMBO (Reuters/AFP) - The president of Sri Lanka declared Saturday that the islands separatist Tamil Tiger rebels have been ...
Afghanistan to review Nato, US mily presence
KABUL (AFP/Reuters) - Afghanistan will review regulations governing the presence of tens of thousands of foreign troops fighting ...
'Obama backtracking on campaign promises'
WASHINGTON - Human Rights Watch, a prominent international watchdog, has called President Barack Obamas plan to use military ...
Kuwaiti elections close, voters doubt crisis will end
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis voted in their third election since 2006 on Saturday with few confident that the polls will end a ...
India's 'reluctant king' set to become PM again
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Described as a reluctant king in his first stint as Indias prime minister, the quietly-spoken 76-year-old ...
Netanyahu won't back Palestinian state on US trip
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will refuse on his trip to Washington to back the formation of a ...
Sajjad Lone loses India vote
SRINAGAR (AFP) - A leading Kashmiri leader who broke ranks with his movement to contest Indias general elections saw his move ...
ex-UN diplomat elected to LS
NEW DELHI (AFP) - A former candidate for the post of UN Secretary General, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor, was on Saturday ...
Bangladesh intel bosses held over 2004 arms haul
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladeshi police have arrested two ex- intelligence bosses over a consignment of weapons seized 5-years ago at ...
Business
Shipping agencies inflict undue charges
KARACHI - The shipping agencies busy inflicting on the business community unnecessary charges at ports and create hurdles in ...
Deposit of sponsor shares in blocked account with CDC
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has said that the sponsor shares and subsequently issued bonus/right shares issued to ...
Economic reforms in Kuwait at stake
Kuwait (Reuters) - Kuwaitis are voting in parliamentary elections on Saturday, two months after the ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad ...
Pepco striving to overcome power deficit
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Managing Direction Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Tahir Basharat Cheema has said that efforts are ...
Surplus wheat export proposed
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Wheat Procurement Supervisory Committee here on Saturday proposed the government to export of surplus wheat and ...
Pilots vow to extend full support to PIA management
LAHORE - Vice President, Pakistan Airline Pilots Association (PALPA), Capt Suhail Baluch, has said that what happened in recent ...
End CNG, petrol prices difference, Govt urged
KARACHI - All Pakistan CNG Association has demanded the government to eliminate difference between the prices of CNG and petrol ...
PIA to airlift relief goods free of cost
KARACHI - PIA will provide free-of-cost transportation of relief goods to Islamabad Peshawar from across the country and its ...
Roads in Balochistan on priority, says Arbab
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan has said that road infrastructure in Balochistan would be ...
Market flat despite huge foreign selling
LAHORE - Foreign selling remained the key concerning area at KSE during the outgoing week. Total foreign outflows recorded at ...
Politics
Debate on NPT ends: No agreement on final document
UNITED NATIONS - Despite last minute negotiations, the committee making preparations for next years UN-backed conference of State ...
No need for foreign training, says Kayani
ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said Pakistan Army has developed a full range of ...
Pak HC goes thru humiliating search
LONDON-Pakistan High Commissioner to UK, Wajid Shamsul Hassan had to go through a painful process during his meeting with ...
Conducting LBs polls under judiciary to be reviewed: CJP
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Saturday said that conducting elections under judiciary was ...
Troops close in on Mingora
ISLAMABAD - The security forces have killed 47 terrorists and arrested four others in the operation continuing in Swat, Buner and ...
No state to be provided access to nukes: PM
ISLAMABAD - Taking strong notice of the malicious campaign against countrys nuclear arsenal, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza ...
Musharraf fumes at query about BB, Bugti killings
NEW YORK - Former President Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf expressed his anger when a journalist said that he must share some ...
Iran to host summit with Pak, Afghan presidents
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Saturday that it is to host a summit with the Afghan and Pakistani presidents, which is expected to ...
Youth cuts jugular vein over police attitude
LAHORE - A 25-year-old desperate youth of Shahdara Town on Saturday chopped off his sensitive part and cut his jugular vein with ...
Germany delays submarines sale to Pakistan
BERLIN (PPI) - Germany has sold main battle tanks to Qatar, ending a long ban on selling heavy weapons to Arabian nations, news ...
Balochistan lobbying for new NFC Award
QUETTA - Balochistan govt has started lobbying for announcement of new NFC award before next budget to mitigate the financial ...
3 secys transferred
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday issued directives for the transfer and re-appointment of ...
Zardari 'determined' to bring country out of problems
PARIS (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said that Pakistanis working and living abroad were the true representatives ...
Entertainment
US has new Mideast peace plan: Jordan King
AMMAN (AFP) - The United States is expected to announce soon a new plan to kick-start the deadlocked Middle East peace talks, ...
Islamabad
Police guarding Capital sans water, shelter facilities
ISLAMABAD-Capital police is facing immense problems in guarding Islamabad because of the lack of proper facilities as well as ...
Capital's rural areas to have two hospitals
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The federal government plans to build two hospitals for the rural people of Islamabad, who have to rush to ...
Police arrest seven outlaws
ISLAMABAD: Capital police have arrested seven accused involved in murder, theft, illicit weapon, gambling and recovered one 12 ...
No check on swindlers misusing IDPs name
RAWALPINDI - Following the unprecedented large scale exodus of civilian population from war-hit areas of Swat and Malakand ...
4 hospitals issued NOCs for using radioactive materials
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) has issued license and No Objection Certificate (NOC) to four ...
Contract staff of Benazir Women Centre seeks regularisation of jobs
ISLAMABAD-Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Shelter Home and Women Centre set up to address the plight of women needs to consider the ...
Karachi
Pakistan team abandons plan to appear in Commonwealth TT
KARACHI - The Pakistan table tennis had to abandon its plans to leave for Scotland to appear in the Commonwealth Championships ...
39,710 acres of State land encroached by mafias
KARACHI - Land grabbers are active not only in the urban areas of the province but they are running amok in rural and katcha ...
Karachiites take to streets against outages
KARACHI - The residents of different parts of the City Saturday took to streets against the prolonged loadshedding by the Karachi ...
2 shot dead in clash; 4 killed in separate incidents in City
KARACHI - As many as two persons were killed while more than a dozen others injured in a serious gun battle between two rival ...
Court remands Atif Polani to FIA custody
KARACHI - The District and Session Judge (South) on Saturday was remanded Atif Polani, one of the directors of Khanani and Kalia ...
17pc Karachiites have hypertension
KARACHI (PPI) - On the occasion of world hypertension day 2009, a scientific session was organised by the Pakistan Hypertension ...
Of 'fragile governments and broken promises'
The word 'Fragile means some thing that is delicate, brittle and frail and can easily be broken or destroyed, depending on the ...
Lahore
Pakistan lose to Korea in Asia Cup final
LAHORE - Pakistan lost in the final of the 8th Men's Asia Cup to South Korea by one goal to nil at Kuantan, Malaysia on Saturday ...
National Twenty20 Cricket from May 25
LAHORE - Director cricket operations domestic Pakistan Cricket Board Sultan Rana said that the National Twenty20 cricket ...
Aziz shines as Wapda draw with Nepal Police
LAHORE - Goalkeeper Abdul Aziz showed agility under the bar once again as the eagerly-awaited Group-A clash in 5th AFC ...
PFF names Tehran-bound U13 team
LAHORE - Faisalabad's keeper Muhammad Boota failed to get the nod of coaches as Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)'s President ...
Filling stations want early disposal of fuel stocks
LAHORE - Worst fuel scarcity has hit the Punjab Capital as most of the filling stations went dry here on Saturday, following the ...
Shahbaz resolute to curb 'Booti Mafia'
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has expressed his strong resolve to curb the 'Booti mafia (cheaters) and ordered ...
'Taliban getting weapons from US, India'
LAHORE - Participants of 'Tuhafiz-e-Pakistan Convention have decided to launch a countrywide campaign against talibanisation and ...
Govt should have convinced Taliban to fight in IHK
LAHORE - Editor-in-Chief The Nation and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust, Majid Nizami, has said we cannot claim even after 62 ...
Taliban to be crushed once for all: Taseer
LAHORE - Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer has said the whole nation is fully united in fight against terror and determined to ...
Lawyers not willing to accept Gondal as Bar president
LAHORE - Senior members of Lahore High Court Bar Association have declined to accept Munawar Iqbal Gondal as president Lahore ...
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