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 Thursday, May 21, 2009
Front Page
Troops struggle to regain Buner
ISLAMABAD - Director-General ISPR Maj-Gen Ather Abbas on Wednesday said foreign militants arrested by Pakistan security forces in the military operation in Malakand Division had been identified as Arabs, Afghans and Afghan Uzbeks. They have been arrested from different parts of Malakand Division ...
UN appeal for funds tomorrow: Severe food shortage in conflict zone
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations plans to issue another flash appeal on Friday for additional funds to care for the tens and ...
Defeat no option, we must win: Zardari
ISLAMABAD - The government has come up with a relief package for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Malkanad Division by ...
International
US paper slams Supreme Court ruling against Pakistani citizen
NEW YORK - A leading American newspaper Wednesday criticized as "disturbing" a US Supreme Court ruling that the FBI director and ...
US to take action to prevent Taliban' access to Pak nukes: Penatagon
WASHINGTON - While asserting that Washington was comfortable with Pakistan's security measures for its nuclear weapons, a ...
US Senate, FBI deal blow to Obama Gitmo closure plans
WASHINGTON (AFP/Reuters) - US President Barack Obamas plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by early 2010 drew a crushing ...
Indian Congress invited to form new government
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Indias Congress party, which surged back to power following month-long elections, was Wednesday invited to ...
Palestinian cabinet takes power, widening rift
RAMALLAH, West Bank, (AFP) - The Palestinian rift widened on Wednesday after a new government, again headed by Western-backed ...
War over, Sri Lanka's next fight lies ahead
COLOMBO (Reuters) - With a quarter-century civil war in the history books, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will now put to ...
US, Israel forming high-level working group on Iran
WASHINGTON - The United States and Israel are quietly forming a high-level working group to exchange studies over the issues of ...
100,000 killed in war: UN
GENEVA (AFP) - An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people were killed in nearly three decades of civil war in Sri Lanka between the ...
8 fugitive rebels shot dead
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka celebrated victory over the Tamil Tigers with a national holiday on Wednesday as the army hunted down ...
British PM faces election calls after speaker quits
LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rebuffed Wednesday growing calls for an early general election after the ...
Suu Kyi wishes for 'better days'
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi was unexpectedly allowed to speak to diplomats at her internationally ...
US-Russia N-talks make positive start
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States and Russia have held two days of successful talks on ways to slash vast stockpiles of Cold ...
Business
Pakistan has huge financial growth potential, suggests WB report
KARACHI - Yusupha B Crookes, World Bank Country Director for Pakistan has said that there is a huge growth potential for ...
Stock market sustains 7,000 psychological barrier
KARACHI - The stock market continued to remain under selling pressure as KSE-100 index shed 7.13 points on Wednesday. The index ...
Agri credit disbursement up by 11 per cent in 10 months
KARACHI - Credit disbursement to agriculture sector by commercial and specialized banks increased by 10.92% year-on-year to Rs ...
Analysts see slowest growth in decade
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistans economic growth for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be the slowest in more than a decade, beset by ...
LPG price cut by Rs2 per kg
KARACHI - LPG marketing companies have reduced prices of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs 2 to Rs 61 per kilogram and 11.8 ...
Pak-Tunisia to take trade volume to $300m by 2010
LAHORE - The Ambassador of Tunisia Mourad Bourehla, while agreeing that the existing trade volume between Pakistani and Tunisia ...
2nd study on existing oil, gas potential launched
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) here on Wednesday launched the second study report on the countrys ...
First Data soon to start operation in Pakistan
KARACHI (APP) - First Data, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing services, here on Wednesday announced ...
DCM, DFTL sign pact
KARACHI (PR) - Dawood Capital Management Ltd (DCM) has entered into an agreement with Dawood Family Takaful Ltd (DFTL) to provide ...
Mobilink provides relief to 500 families
LAHORE - Mobilink distributed relief packages to over 500 families in the Mardan and Swabi districts as part of its ongoing ...
Politics
Gwadar Port declared tax-free
ISLAMABAD - The government on Wednesday declared Gawadar Port as Tax-Free Zone. Mian Manzoor Wattoo, Minister for Industries and ...
US always encouraged Pak dictators: Hillary
WASHINGTON (Agencies) - US President Barack Obama has said that Pakistans large nuclear arsenal is a worry for the US especially ...
Operation moving in right direction: Kayani
ISLAMABAD - Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Wednesday expressed his sheer satisfaction over the ongoing ...
5pc job quota for minorities
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira Wednesday said that Cabinet meeting chaired by ...
Donors' meeting today
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan will host Thursday an international donors meeting to drum up funds for around two million people ...
Canada eyes arms sale to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Canada is considering ending its 11-year embargo on the sale of ...
Pakistan to act on new Indian info on Mumbai
ISLAMABAD (Reuters/APP) - Pakistan Wednesday confirmed having received some information material from India regarding ...
Indonesian plane crash kills 98
MAGETAN, Indonesia, (Reuters) - An Indonesian military transport plane carrying 110 passengers and crew crashed and burst into ...
India-bound PIA flights half-empty
KARACHI - Pakistan International Airlines is running half-empty flights to India as the neighbouring country has tightened visa ...
Afghan forces leaking US arms to Taliban
NEW YORK - US ammunition and assault rifles supplied to Afghan troops are finding their way into the hands of Taliban militants, ...
Three Pak students shifted to Manchester
LONDON (APP) - Three of the ten detained Pakistani students lodged in Belmarsh prison, south east from here, have been shifted to ...
Tehran test-fires new medium-range missile
TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - Iran launched a missile with a range of around 2,000km on Wednesday and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said ...
Civil judge Sher Afzal resigns
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Civil judge Karak Sher Afzal Wednesday resigned from his post after receiving life threats. According to a ...
Obama major speech today
President Obama will discuss US national security in a major speech at the National Archives today ( Thursday). He will discuss ...
Entertainment
Home of second Slumdog child star demolished
A SECOND actor in the film 'Slumdog Millionaire has lost her home in a slum clearance drive by the Mumbai authorities. Rubina ...
Tarantino, Pitt in Cannes for Nazi-slaying caper
CANNES, France, (Reuters) - US director Quentin Tarantino rolls a Western, gangster flick and wartime caper into one in his new ...
Sandra regrets making Speed 2
SANDRA Bullock has just one regret in her career - making Speed 2. The actress wishes someone had told her not to make the ...
Paris Hilton to stand trial
A MIAMI Federal Court judge has refused to dismiss a breach of contract lawsuit against hotel heiress Paris Hilton, and directed ...
Winehouse hospitalised again
AMY Wineh-ouse has been hospitalised for third time in three months. According to UK newspaper The Sun, the Rehab singer fell ill ...
Some people really 'never forget a face'
SOME people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University whove discovered a group ...
Sports
Sharapova cruises into Warsaw Open quarters
WARSAW (AFP) - Maria Sharapova continued her successful return to the WTA circuit on Wednesday with a confident 6-2, 6-0 victory ...
PCB sill trying to negotiate its way through
LAHORE - After slapping ICC with a legal notice for stripping them off the 2011 World Cup matches, Pakistan Cricket Board is now ...
Yousuf return announcement likely today
LAHORE - Star batsman Mohammad Yousuf will meet Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt today, when the former returns ...
Bangladesh coach eyes T20 Super Eights spot
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh cricket coach Jamie Siddons said Wednesday that his side is targeting victory against India and a berth ...
Burhani Salgirah T20 cricket trophy final
KARACHI - Taheri XI will face Burhani XI in the final of the 9th Burhani Salgirah T20 cricket trophy here on Sunday at the Aga ...
Veteran cricketer dies on the field
KARACHI - A veteran cricketer playing in a veteran T20 cricket contest died of heart failure in a match of the competition here ...
Pakistan has history of sportsmen's deaths
KARACHI - The sad demise of veteran cricketer Javed Sheikh here on Tuesday night at Asghar Ali Shah stadium was not the first ...
Symonds misses out on Australia's Ashes squad
SYDNEY (AFP) - Controversial all-rounder Andrew Symonds was a notable omission from Australia's squad for this year's Ashes ...
Kallis keeps Bangalore IPL hopes alive
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Jacques Kallis struck an unbeaten 58 and took a key wicket as Royal Challengers Bangalore beat leaders Delhi ...
Four ties decided in NBP twenty20 cricket
LAHORE - Another four matches were decided in the National Bank of Pakistan Inter-club Twenty20 Cricket Tournaent here. Ali Garh ...
Islamabad
Abduction drama ends in death of kidnapped; killers arrested
RAWALPINDI - Three accused of a 'kidnapping for ransom gang were apprehended while the dead body of an abducted person was also ...
Health Ministry devises waste management plan
ISLAMABAD-Ministry of Health for the first time has devised a Health Care Waste Management Action Plan with an estimated cost of ...
City govt shy of taking action
RAWALPINDI - More than 200 old buildings and structures in the city are posing grave threat not only to the life and property of ...
LHC seeks RCB comments
RAWALPINDI - Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench Justice Imtiaz Rasheed Siddiqi Wednesday issued notices to Executive ...
'A Masterpiece in Accidental Design'
ISLAMABAD - Once a layman visited an art gallery to attend the painting exhibition of abstract art. Having not been able to make ...
Women folk urged to play role in nation building
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Dr Fateh Muhammad Malik, Rector, International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) here on Wednesday stressed ...
Karachi
LEAs fail to monitor IDPs arrival in City
KARACHI - Law enforcement agencies are unable to chalk out a foolproof strategy to monitor the displaced people arriving in the ...
Nationalists oppose Swat affectees influx
KARACHI - The nationalist forces of Sindh have joined hands in opposing the large-scale migration to province of the people from ...
PCO judges challenged in court
KARACHI - Sindh Bar Council (SBC) has challenged the PCO judges as well as the reappointment of the judges by former Chief ...
4,000 CNG buses project shelved
KARACHI - The Federal Govt-funded plan to bring the four thousand CNG buses in the metropolis within five years under the ...
Education department reluctant to take action
KARACHI - Sindh Education Department has apparently failed to identify the responsible for corruption and mismanagement reported ...
High Court grants bail to Liaquat Jatoi
KARACHI - The division bench of Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising Justice Munaib Ahmed and Justice Karim Khan Agha on Wednesday ...
Lahore
Major Abid laid to rest with full military honour
LAHORE - Namaz-e-Janaza of Major Abid Majeed Malik, who embraced Shahadat during operation Rah-e-Rast near Matta (Swat), was held ...
Loadshedding hits citizens hard
LAHORE - Unscheduled and incessant electricity outages continued to paralyse the life around the country as well as in the City, ...
220 IDPs registered in City
LAHORE - City police have registered 220 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have arrived here in the City during the last ...
Unification Bloc still in search of share in govt
LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) is yet to decide any power-sharing formula with the Unification Bloc in the ...
Bar ex-presidents announce to hold election on June 6
LAHORE - There seems to be no end to the controversy over holding of presidential bye-election of the Lahore High Court Bar ...
SC takes Zohaib-Saleem case for regular hearing
LAHORE - A Supreme Court bench on Wednesday admitted to regular hearing the appeals filed by Zohaib Athar and Saleem Majid to ...
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