Thursday, February 09, 2012
- 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
- Tax collection registers increase of 26%: Hafeez Shaikh
- 77% of Pakistanis marry within family: Gallup poll
The Nation in print for Thursday, May 29, 2008
Front Page
Zardari consents to Musharraf exit
LAHORE-PML-N Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that solution to all problems lies in a public revolution. He said that nation is ready for this revolution as ground for it has been prepared. He said that this is the only way to get rid of Musharraf also. He expressed these views while ...
8 militants dead in Bajaur blast
PESHAWAR - As many as eight alleged militants were killed and three others injured when their own explosive went off inside a ...
Punjab plans huge flour subsidy
LAHORE - The Punjab government will present its maiden budget for the fiscal year 2008-09 with a total outlay of about Rs 400 ...
Gilani for direct support to poor in budget
ISLAMABAD - Spelling out priorities of the PPP-led government in the upcoming budget, Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, ...
International
Nepal's monarchy abolished
KATHMANDU (AFP) - A constitutional assembly in Nepal on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of abolishing the Himalayan ...
School refusal is racist: Muslim group
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian Muslim group charged Wednesday that a Sydney council's refusal to allow an Islamic school to be set ...
China, Taiwan hold historic summit
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese President Hu Jintao called for peaceful relations with Taiwan as he met the head of the island's ruling ...
Defence minister demands Israeli Premier step down
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday demanded that embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert quit ...
US defying international law: Amnesty
THE United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests ...
US troops kill 10 Iraqis in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AFP) - US troops killed 10 militiamen as they planted roadside bombs in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, just outside the ...
Food crisis could set back children's health
YOKOHAMA (AFP) - The global rise in food prices threatens to reverse gains made in children's health in Africa, where mortality ...
UK to scrap all cluster bombs, says Brown
DUBLIN (AFP) - The text of a landmark international convention to ban cluster bombs was agreed Wednesday by delegates from more ...
Palestinian survivors stories shock UN team
GAZA (AFP) - UN human rights observers led by Desmond Tutu on Wednesday met survivors of a 2006 Israeli bombing that killed 19 ...
Ex-White House spokesman slams Bush
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK - Scott McClellan, an ex-Bush administration insider, says U.S. President George Bush ...
Further sharp increases in global food prices 'likely':UN
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UNITED NATIONS - Further sharp price hikes and continued volatility in markets for food supplies ...
Sharapova survives scare as Ferrero bows out
PARIS (AFP) - Maria Sharapova narrowly avoided becoming the first women's top seed in French Open history to lose in the opening ...
Moin Khan loses right to file statement in Yousuf-ICL case
LAHORE - A civil judge here Wednesday struck off the right of former Pakistan captain Moin Khan and an Indian company "Game ...
Torrential rain brings chaos to French Open
PARIS (AFP) - Torrential rain brought chaos to the French Open on Tuesday with six hours of play lost and title favourites Maria ...
Woods says knee rehab on schedule for US Open
BETHESDA (Maryland) (AFP) - Tiger Woods says the rehabilitation of his surgically repaired left knee is "right on ...
Peter Moores ready to back Collingwood
LONDON (AFP) - England coach Peter Moores is ready to fight for Paul Collingwood's place in his side ahead of the final Test ...
Gomis emulates Zidane to give France victory over Ecuador
GRENOBLE (France) (AFP) - Bafetimbi Gomis became the first French player since Zinedine Zidane to score a double on his ...
Business
Kse resumes bearish view after short-lived recovery
LAHORE - Bearish sentiments got intensified once again on Wednesday and bulls were thrown out of the ring. The market, after ...
Oil marketing cos, dealers jockeying for more profits
KARACHI - Oil marketing companies and dealers of oil products are jockeying for building up excessive stocks ahead of certain ...
Iran sees gas pipeline deal with India, Pakistan by mid-year
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Iran's ambassador to New Delhi said Tehran hopes to finalise a gas pipeline deal with India and Pakistan by ...
Oil swings back towards $130
LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices rebounded towards 130 dollars per barrel on Wednesday, reversing earlier losses in volatile trade ...
Fibre link with China, India, Afghanistan and Iran on the cards
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Information Technology (IT) and KANA Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira Wednesday said that government was ...
President seeks WB support to overcome energy, food shortages
RAWALPINDI (APP) - Underscoring the need for hydro-power projects and storage dams in the country, President Pervez Musharraf on ...
ICCI for boosting Pak-Tajik trade ties
ISLAMABAD - President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Ijaz Abbasi has said that Tajikistan is the nearest ...
Australian govt to support WFP programme in FATA, Balochistan
PESHAWAR (APP) - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Australian High Commissioner and WFP Country ...
Farmers' body to make canals operations efficient
LAHORE- The Punjab Irrigation & Drainage Authority (PIDA) has chalked out a reforms plan according to which farmers ...
Registration of trademark
LAHORE - Provincial Secretary of Commerce and Investment Tahir Raza Naqvi has said that in order to introduce the heritage and ...
Minister visits Siemens
KARACHI - Sindh Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui visited Siemens Pakistan Industrial complex together with MD SITE Danish Saeed ...
Politics
PPP not against any individual
FEDERAL Information Minister Sherry Rehman has said that the PPP has a stance about institutions and not about any individual, ...
Party to change system: Zardari
ISLAMABAD - Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) Wednesday assured Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, that they would ...
President consulting friends on resignation
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf has started consultations with his close friends over his resignation and post-resignation ...
Torrential rain kills 53 in China
BEIJING (AFP) - The death toll from torrential rains in China climbed to 53, state media reported Wednesday, after people were ...
Plea filed to get Army House vacated from Musharraf
OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A constitutional petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to seek vacation of ...
Relying on Musharraf was mistake: US Senator
SHAIQ HUSSAIN ISLAMABAD - A top US Senator Wednesday said Pakistan had reassured that it wouldn't tolerate the ...
Aitzaz threatens 'long march' on Army House
OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has said long marchers ...
2 security men among four killed in Quetta
Shahzada Zulfiqar QUETTA - Four people including an army man and a police official were killed in an armed attack on Joint ...
Urban people start buying wheat
USMAN CHEEMA ISLAMABAD - People residing in urban areas are witnessed purchasing wheat for their whole year's demand as ...
Entertainment
Welcome back Mr Bond
LONDON (AFP) - The latest James Bond novel, penned to coincide with what would have been his creator Ian Fleming's 100th ...
Radio glitch hinders Mars lander mission
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the ...
Could Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes be splitting up?
TOM Cruise and Katie Holmes are said to be holding a house-warming at their $35 million Beverly Hills mansion, but Katie's going ...
Nicole Kidman slams ex-hubby
NICOLE Kidman accuses Tom Cruise of 'Manipulating' their kids Nicole Kidman has finally broken her silence after 7 years of ...
Mind over matter
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists have trained monkeys to manipulate a robotic arm solely with brain power, and could soon help amputees ...
Anger over Sharon's quake remarks
ACTRESS Sharon Stone has sparked criticism in China after claiming the recent earthquake could have been the result of bad ...
Islamabad
Eight volleyball events added to national calendar
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Volleyball Federation (PVF) has decided to introduce eight more annual national events which will be ...
French biography of Nusrat Fateh released
ISLAMABAD - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan once commanded the Qawwali music scene with such a strong presence and authority that left many ...
ICT vaccination drive for livestock
ISLAMABAD - Livestock and Dairy Development Department; ICT administration would set up 26 free livestock camps in the rural ...
'Democracy should encourage pluralism'
ISLAMABAD - Corrupt, autocratic and opportunist political leaders were more responsible than the military for the instability of ...
Unchecked drug use at Bari Imam
ISLAMABAD - Drug addicts are openly violating the state laws in the vicinity of Bari Imam during the five-day festival, as the ...
Judges' issue can't be solved before March: Sh Rashid
ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Former federal minister and PML-Q leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that the judges' issue couldn't be ...
PIMS media advisory body formed
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has constituted a Media Advisory Committee by the approval of its Executive ...
Karachi
Smoking trend on the rise among youth
KARACHI - Experts have expressed grave concern over the rising trend of smoking amongst young people in the country and demanded ...
Efforts underway to reduce loadshedding
KARACHI - "The shortage of electricity is causing much inconvenience for the citizens at present but all-out efforts are ...
Typhoid affects 21.5m every year worldwide
KARACHI - Experts have warned citizens to get their children vaccinated against typhoid fever, as the life-threatening disease ...
KBD being used as decoy to avert public attention: Ghaffor
KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Central Naib Ameer Prof Ghaffor Ahmed Wednesday said present government by creating ...
Dictatorship wrecked country's institutions: Marri
KARACHI - Leader of the house in Senate, Main Raza Rabbani and Sindh Minister for Information Shazia Marri have said that the ...
Govt to bear treatment expenses of Railways staffer
KARACHI - The injured employee of Pakistan Railway Sarfaraz Ahmed 23, was shifted to PNS Shiffa from Railway hospital on ...
Raheel crosses first hurdle in Rotary TT
KARACHI - Twenty-two year old Raheel Qureshi of Hyderabad overpowered Zeeshan Kirmani in straight games to move into the second ...
Lahore
Qadeer made Pak defence invincible, says Nizami
LAHORE - Editor-in-Chief The Nation and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust, Majid Nizami has said that if there would have been no ...
Nations having love for books live long: Minister
LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Prisons Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor has said that nations having love for books live long and ...
NCA regenerates interest in calligraphy
LAHORE - The art of calligraphy is part of our golden heritage but unfortunately it remained ignored and was on the verge of ...
Lawyers will not flinch back from principled stand: SCBA
LAHORE - The Supreme Court Bar Association office-bearers have said that lawyers will not flinch back an inch from their ...
Poor management, ad hocism question future of KEMU
LAHORE -King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Lahore, one of the biggest and oldest medical institutes of the country is fast ...
Governor NWFP calls on Taseer
LAHORE - Governor NWFP Awais Ahmad Ghani arrived here in the city on Wednesday. He will address at the National Institute of ...
Pakistan could've learnt great deal from Australia
LAHORE - Director Game Development PCB Mudassar Nazar has pointed out that though Pakistan swept Zimbabwe and Bangladesh series ...
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