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 28, 2009
Front Page
Terrorists attack Lahore ISI office
LAHORE - At least 30 people including four officials of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and 14 policemen were killed while over 300 injured, scores of them critically, in the deadliest attack that completely destroyed Rescue 15 building and partially damaged ISI headquarters on Wednesday ...
Uncalled-for blame game
LAHORE - After the attack on the police emergency response headquarters, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the mediamen ...
National security committee ordered
KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has directed to improve the efficiency of law enforcing agencies particularly police by ...
International
US main hurdle in coordinating aid: UN
OSLO/KABUL (Reuters/AFP) - The United States is the biggest obstacle to coordinating aid efforts in Afghanistan, UN special envoy ...
Russia fears North Korea conflict could go nuclear
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is taking security measures as a precaution against the possibility tension over North Korea could ...
Palestinians still want peace with Israel: Abbas
OTTAWA (AFP) - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday stressed his willingness to reach a peace agreement with Israel, on ...
UNSC mulling 'strong' move on North Korea
NEW YORK - UN Security Council members on Tuesday discussed new strong measures against North Korea for testing a nuclear device, ...
Obama to visit Saudi Arabia to discuss Mideast, Iran
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia on June 3 for talks with King Abdullah on the Mideast peace ...
American says God told him to warn Suu Kyi
YANGON (AFP) - A US man told the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday that he swam to the Myanmar democracy icons home to warn her ...
1 in 7 Guantanamo inmates returns to fight: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Five percent of former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed and another nine percent are suspected of having ...
EU, US negotiating rules on ex-Gitmo inmates
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU and the US are negotiating rules for sending ex-Guantanamo detainees to Europe, including on the thorny ...
Iran arrests 104 in raid on 'Satanist' party
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has arrested more than 100 Satan-worshippers in a raid on a concert in the southern city of Shiraz where ...
No exceptions to settlement freeze: Hillary
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama has made it very clear to Israel that he wants no natural growth exceptions to his ...
Simple for Safina as new Russian challenge looms
PARIS (AFP) - Top seed Dinara Safina enjoyed another French Open breeze on Wednesday, defeating teenage compatriot Vitalia ...
Business
Sindh PSDP share reduced to Rs14b
KARACHI - The Planning Commission has revised down the Sindhs share to Rs14 billion from Rs18 billion for development schemes in ...
KESC approves 31 per cent rights shares issue
KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), to improve operational and financial viability, and the profitability of the ...
Lahore blast limits gains at stock market
KARACHI- Mixed activity continued to run the local bourse as suicide blast in Lahore gripped investors confidence negatively, ...
Russia's Gazprom eyes role in Pak-Iran pipeline
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is keen to participate in a pipeline to carry Iranian gas to Pakistan, the ...
Siddique new chairman
KARACHI - The Board of Directors of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Wednesday announced the appointment of Waqar H ...
SC orders regularisation of National Bank employees
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the management of National Bank of Pakistan to reinstate its laid off ...
Economic summit postponed
UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly has postponed until late June the high-level gathering aimed at assessing the global ...
Higher PSDP allocation to help boost cement sales
LAHORE - The higher allocation in next budget for Public Sector Development Programmes (PSDP) including construction of dams is ...
Residences being allotted only to favourites
LAHORE - The residences in the new Ghazi 132-kv Grid Station Colony are being allotted only to the favorite Wapda employees and ...
6 months ban recommended
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Industries and Production Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo Wednesday said that government would ...
SCCI proposes utilisation of $3 billion US aid in NWFP
PESHAWAR (APP): Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has suggested for utilization of dollar three billion non-military ...
Politics
President summons meeting on security
ISLAMABAD - The deadly Lahore blast, an apparent retaliation to the ongoing anti-militants operation has forced President Asif ...
ISI building was the target
LAHORE - Police officers claimed that main target of the terrorists was the Inter-Services Intelligences building and its ...
Taliban near defeat in Mingora
ISLAMABAD - Director General ISPR Major General Athar Abbas has said that Mingora town would be cleared of the terrorists within ...
PM inquires about safety of Nawa-i-Waqt Group workers
LAHORE (APP) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Editor The Nation and Executive Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Arif Nizami on ...
Youm-e-Takbeer today
LAHORE - The nation is all set to celebrate Youm-e-Takbeer today (Thursday) with fervour and enthusiasm. The day, May 28, is ...
No threat to nuke programme: Nawaz
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said the world powers including the US and the UK had joined hands to prevent Pakistan from ...
Bounty offered for TTP leaders arrest
The NWFP government has announced bounty of millions for those who would provide concrete information or assist the security ...
India may restart 'secret diplomacy' to resolve Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD - India may restart 'secret diplomacy with its nuclear archrival Pakistan after months long lull to resolve Kashmir and ...
5pc import duty on tobacco likely
ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is likely to impose five per cent regulatory duty on the import of processed ...
NKorea warns of attack
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Wednesday it was abandoning the truce that ended the Korean war and warned it could launch a ...
Agencies gear up efforts to trace perpetrators
ISLAMABAD - Pakistans security agencies have stepped up efforts to track down the perpetrators of the suicide bombing at ...
UN resumes activities in Balochistan
QUETTA - The United Nations (UN) is restarting its relief activities in Balochistan that were halted after the kidnapping of an ...
Nawaz most popular Pakistani leader: US press
NEW YORK - Major U.S. newspapers on Wednesday carried dispatches about the Supreme Court decision to lift the electoral ban on ...
CJP takes suo moto notice of Baloch leaders' murder
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo moto notice of three Baloch nationalist leaders ...
Pakistan, WB sign agreement
ISLAMABAD - The World Bank and government of Pakistan have signed an agreement for strengthening the National Trade Corridor ...
Pakistan in the frame for Type 42 destroyers
LONDON (Online) - The UK and Pakistan are discussing a deal under which the Pakistan Navy could acquire up to three Type 42 Batch ...
25 hurt in IHK clashes
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - At least 25 people were injured in Kashmirs main city on Wednesday when hundreds of stone-throwing ...
Police arrest 3 'terrorists'
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Police said Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of planning attacks on government buildings in the ...
UN, US condemn Lahore bombing
WASHINGTON - The United States and the United Nations have strongly condemned Wednesday's bombing in Lahore terming it as totally ...
Pak military will defeat militants: Haroon tells UNSC
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has told the UN Security Council that its military forces were confronting Taliban and al-Qaeda ...
Entertainment
Astronauts blast off to double space station crew
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) - Three astronauts, from Canada, Belgium and Russia, blasted off Wednesday for the International Space ...
Katy Perry has a soft spot for musicians
WHEN it comes to men, Katy Perry doesnt have a type. The Hot 'n Cold singer says she doesnt look for anything particular in a ...
3mm-thick eco-friendly OLED is TV of future
ONCE they were a must-have for every living room. But LCD and plasma TVs could be about to go the way of the cathode ray tube. A ...
Cancer drug erases fingerprints
A COMMONLY-used cancer drug can make patients fingerprints disappear, potentially causing problems for foreign travel, a doctor ...
Five generations of a family
MOST little girls are lucky enough to have a granny or two to give them lots of love. Ellie-Jane Bannocks has it even better, ...
Rooks and crows are as clever as human toddlers
WHAT would you name as the cleverest animals on the planet? Humans, obviously. Chimpanzees and the other great apes, too. What ...
Islamabad
Children's better future in Pakistan still a dream
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan faces innumerable problems pertaining to the health of children, as every year out of 4,446,000 children ...
Security of sensitive sites tightened
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Islamabad Police have tightened security around 15 police stations of the Capital, Rescue 15, Islamabad ...
Funds paucity hits CDA's 27 projects hard
ISLAMABAD (APP)- The Capital Development Authority (CDA) could not initiate as many as 27 projects worth above four billion ...
RPO sacks 2 sub-inspectors on charges of faulty enquiry
RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Rawalpindi Nasir Khan Durrani dismissed SI Muhammad Aslam and SI Muhammad Akram from ...
Capital to have two more libraries
ISLAMABAD (APP)- National Library of Pakistan (NLP) has finalized arrangements to open two new community libraries in sectors I ...
'IDPs being provided ID cards on war footings'
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Deputy, Chairman NADRA, Muhammad Tariq Malik Wednesday said that 30 mobile vans and 73 offices of the ...
Karachi
Experts show concerns over IDPs settlement
KARACHI - Social scientists have expressed their serious concerns over the decision of Sindh government to accommodate internally ...
City Council demands KESC nationalisation
KARACHI - City council members have expressed concerns over the ongoing power crisis in the City and the treasury members tabled ...
Four killed in mishaps
KARACHI - A rickshaw driver was killed while another person was injured when a speedy truck hit the rickshaw near Valika Hospital ...
Deforestation sans permission banned
KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed City District Government Karachi (CDGK) as well as the other departments ...
Activist of banned outfit shot dead
KARACHI - An activist of a banned outfit was shot dead within the jurisdiction of Aziz Bhatti police station her Wednesday. ...
Karachi police on high alert
Karachi (PPI) - Sindh Home Minister, Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza has put the police in province on high alert after the deadly bomb blast ...
Lahore
Terror causes panic in City
LAHORE - Panic gripped the City soon after the bomb blast targeting the City police headquarters, Rescue 15 Centre and nearby ...
Politico-religious leaders condemn blast
LAHORE - While condemning the blast at the office of Rescue 15, leaders of mainstream political and religious parties have ...
Nawa-i-Waqt building damaged
LAHORE - The building of Nawa-i-Waqt publication group was damaged in the deadliest suicide bomb blast, which took place near ...
Economic activities grind to a halt
LAHORE - Business and economic activities across the provincial capital came to a halt soon after the massive blast shattered the ...
CM visits hospital; 3m for each martyred
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif visited the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and inquired after the health of police ...
PCB puts on hold legal proceedings against ICC
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has put on hold its legal proceedings against the International Cricket Council for shifting ...
Lions, Leopards & Eagles qualify for semi final
LAHORE - Lahore Lions, Islamabad Leopards and Lahore Eagles qualified for the semi-final of the National T20 Cup being played ...
Islamabad Leopards thrash Hyderabad Hawks
LAHORE - Islamabad Leopards beat Hyderabad Hawks by six wickets in the National T20 Cup here at the LCCA ground on Wednesday. ...
PCB yet to decide on future of ICL players
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board are still undecided on punishment for players who left the rebel Indian Cricket League, ...
Sana, Sajida steer Pakistan to win over Ireland
LAHORE - Pakistan women earned hard-fought 27 runs win over Ireland in the opening match of their practice tour ahead of the next ...
Lahore Eagles prevail over Karachi Dolphins
LAHORE - Lahore Eagles defeated Karachi Dolphins with an 11 runs win in the National T20 Cup here at the Gaddafi Stadium on ...
Rawalpindi Rams beat Quetta Bears
LAHORE - Rawalpindi Rams registered big win over Quetta Bears when they got nine wickets success in the National T20 Cup here at ...
Razzak hits ton for Lahore Lions
LAHORE - Abdul Razzak with his rapid-fire century got Lahore Lions two valuable points after their easy 74 runs win over Quetta ...
Ten-man Lahore Blues earn 2-0 win
LAHORE - Spearhead Haroon slammed hat-trick in Peshawar Blue's 9-1 while Naveed Sadiq-led under-strength Lahore Blue turned the ...
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