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 Saturday, November 14, 2009
Front Page
ISI Peshawar HQ truck-bombed
PESHAWAR At least 10 persons including seven personnel of security forces were killed and over 60 others got injured in a deadly suicide attack near the country's premier intelligence agency building opposite to Army Stadium here on Friday morning. Police sources and eyewitnesses informed that a ...
Bomber flattens Bannu police station
BANNU At least eight persons including five policemen were killed while 27 others including an SHO received severe injuries when ...
Nato supplies targeted at Bolan Pass
QUETTA Unidentified persons killed a driver and destroyed five oil tankers carrying fuel from Karachi to Afghanistan for Nato ...
International
Nadal has Federer crown in his sights
PARIS (AFP) Battling Rafael Nadal moved into the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Thursday with a 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 win over Tommy ...
Rejuvenated Pakistan beat Kiwis in first T20
DUBAI (AFP) Pakistan overcame their one-day international series loss and maintained their world champion status in Twenty20 ...
Woods tames course to lead Australian Masters
MELBOURNE (AFP) Tiger Woods stretched his lead to three strokes with another imperious display in the second round of the ...
Football WC favourites jostle for position
PARIS (AFP) The top sides to have already qualified for next summers World Cup in South Africa will size each other up in a ...
Manager is a great motivator for Kiwi team
DUBAI During one of his three stints with the Pakistani team as a coach, Javed Miandad once jokingly had offered to come out of ...
Deco shrugs off loss of Ronaldo
LISBON (AFP) Portugal star Deco insists that the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo is not going to derail the countrys bid to reach ...
World Cup chaos feared as Egypt, Algeria clash
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) Threats of violence in Cairo have overshadowed the final round of 2010 World Cup qualifiers in Africa this ...
Referees' rep slams Ferguson ban
LONDON (AFP) Sir Alex Ferguson was told hed got off lightly by the union representing Englands top referees after receiving a ...
Protests greet Obama in Japan
TOKYO (Agencies) - Visiting US President Barack Obama faced a mass protest in central Tokyo on Friday as activists demanded the ...
Key 9/11 suspects to be tried in New York
WASHINGTON - US Attorney-General Eric Holder announced Friday that five Guantanamo Bay detainees with alleged ties to the 9/11 ...
Syria rebuffs Israeli offer of direct talks
PARIS (AFP/Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said Friday he had no Israeli partner ready to push forward the Middle ...
NKorea vows 'merciless action to protect border
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea vowed Friday to take merciless military action to protect its Yellow Sea border with South Korea and ...
Water found on the moon
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A significant amount of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said Friday heralding a ...
US seizes mosques and skyscraper over Iran links
NEW YORK - US prosecutors, led by an Indian-American, moved to seize four mosques in the US and a skyscraper in New York City ...
38 dead in China snow storms
BEIJING (AFP) - At least 38 people have died in some of the worst snows to hit northern China in decades, state media reported ...
Gates hints at compromise strategy on Afghanistan
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (AFP) - President Barack Obama is eyeing a compromise strategy on Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Robert Gates ...
Indian Maoists kidnap legislator
PATNA, India (AFP) - Indian Maoists briefly kidnapped a state legislator and were suspected of triggering a blast that killed ...
India quietly bolsters disputed China border
TAWANG, India (Reuters) - The rutted mountain road to Tawang in Indias remote northeast, quiet and empty for years, is abuzz ...
Business
Is fragile economy on road to recovery or still at risk?
KARACHI- The predictive revelations and reviews, given by World Bank and IMF in their respective reports about the state of ...
Smuggling damaged local tyre industry
LAHORE - Though the annual demand for tyres in the domestic market is over 6 million but the local industry with only 2.5 million ...
TCP issues sugar deliver order for USC
KARACHI (APP)- Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has issued a deliver order of 54,000 metric tons of sugar to Utility Stores ...
Federal govt shouldnt transgress CCO
LAHORE- The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) while expressing grave concern over the controversy arisen in respect ...
Market gets back 9000 level
KARACHI - The Karachi stock market witnessed bullish activity on the last day of the trading week on the back of waning political ...
Europe crawls out of recession
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Europe crawled out of recession on Friday in an economic recovery analysts said was disappointing, fraught with ...
Food security
We generally hear in discussions these days that water and food security are the biggest economic challenges confronting Pakistan ...
US likely to unveil investment plan for Pakistan
KARACHI (APP) - Four-member US delegation, visiting Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Friday, said United States ...
Farmers advised not to perturb with 1121 variety of rice
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has advised SME farmers not to be perturbed with false information ...
Import surge pushes up US trade gap
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Surging imports pushed up the US trade deficit by a hefty 18 percent in September, official data showed Friday ...
Politics
3576 criminal cases against Altaf, others withdrawn
KARACHI At least 83 corruption cases registered against 200 persons including Interior Minster Rehman Malik, Salman Farooqi, ...
New Delhi's presence in Kabul to mar war goals: Kayani
ISLAMABAD Reiterating Pakistans firm commitment to combat terrorism, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Friday ...
WP deliberately recycles old news
ISLAMABAD The US media and Establishment never tire of using every opportunity to target Pakistans nuclear programme and all ...
Corruption grips PSO
KARACHI Startling facts about high corruption and parochialism and how the people having connections with power corridors are ...
Pak-China N-coop as per int'l law: FO
ISLAMABAD (APP) Pakistan on Friday rejected a report about Pak-China nuclear cooperation as baseless and termed it an attempt to ...
Pakistan crush NZ in a thriller
DUBAI (AFP) - Pakistan beat New Zealand by seven runs in the second Twenty20 international at Dubai Stadium here on Friday to ...
Gilani to announce amnesty for Baloch activists
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would table the Balochistan Package before the joint sitting of the Parliament ...
6 terrorists killed in restive SWA
ISLAMABAD Two soldiers were martyred and at least six terrorists were killed in the ongoing military operation Rah-e-Nijat in ...
US owes $1.6b under CSF to Pakistan: Asif
ISLAMABAD (Online) - President Asif Ali Zardari has stressed the US to immediately halt drone attacks in tribal areas and fulfil ...
Taliban bomber strikes near US base in Kabul
KABUL (AFP) A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in Kabul on Friday, wounding foreign soldiers and Afghan civilians ...
US lawmaker finds Pak connection with Nidal Hasan
WASHINGTON-An American Congressman said on Thursday that he has confirmed that Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in last weeks ...
No comment on WP report: US
WASHINGTON - A State Department spokesman Friday declined to comment on a newspaper report that China provided Pakistan with ...
Domestic consumers to face gas loadshedding
ISLAMABAD Faced with tough resistance from the CNG Association in form of strikes, the Government is now left with no option but ...
Nawaz for change through Constitution
LAHORE PML-N Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that his party wants the government to complete its five years term with ...
Malik confirms DynCorp operating in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the security company with name of DynCorp is providing ...
B'desh police arrest 3 Pakistani militant suspects
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladeshi police said Friday they have arrested three Pakistani men who were suspected of plotting to attack US ...
Tony Blair to face Iraq war inquiry
LONDON (AFP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair is to be called to give evidence to an inquiry into the Iraq war, ...
Pakistan chides UNSC for inaction on Kashmir
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to take steps to settle major issues, like Kashmir and Palestine, in ...
15 terror suspects held in Khar
KHAR - At least 15 more suspected militants were apprehended during a search operation here on Friday. According to details, ...
Gilani rejects rigging charges in Gilgit-Baltistan elections
ISLAMABAD Opposition parties Friday staged a token walkout from the National Assembly against rigging in Gilgit-Baltistan ...
GB polls a cosmetic exercise: India
INDIA Friday decried the just-concluded polls in Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly the Northern Areas which was renamed by Pakistan a ...
Entertainment
DannII Minogue named ultimate TV personality of 2009
DANNII Minogue has been named Cosmopolitans Ultimate TV Personality of the Year 2009. The X Factor judge and mentor was honoured ...
Stewart scared of cars
KRISTEN Stewart is no biker chick The actress - who plays Bella in the Twilight movie franchise - says shes afraid of cars - so ...
Lifetime Globe prize for Scorsese
VETERAN director Martin Scorsese will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes next ...
Man invents stair-climbing wheelchair
A CHINESE pensioner sold his apartment to fund his dream of creating a wheelchair that can climb stairs. Li Rongbiao, 67, of ...
Diet switching can activate brain's stress system
IN research that sheds light on the perils of yo-yo dieting and repeated bouts of sugar-bingeing, researchers from The Scripps ...
Windows 7 borrowed 'look' of Mac
A MICROSOFT executive was quoted in an interview as saying what weve tried to do with Windows 7...is create a Mac look and feel ...
Islamabad
Squash in dire need of PSF attention
ISLAMABAD The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) must realise that time is running out fast and there is need to act in the right ...
Govt schools, colleges without adequate security measures
ISLAMABAD Despite the deteriorating law and order situation in the country, the government instead of releasing funds for ...
SC to hear missing persons case on 16th
ISLAMABAD The desperate families of the missing persons on Friday called off their two-week long strike after the Supreme Court ...
Parliament's supremacy vital: Fehmida
ISLAMABAD Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza has said that she along with others are striving for the supremacy of the ...
Around 100 PBC employees booked
ISLAMABAD - The City Police has registered a case against more than hundred employees of Radio Pakistan for staging a protest ...
Police nab 2 proclaimed offenders
ISLAMABAD - The city police Friday arrested two proclaimed offenders wanted in a murder case and two car thieves, police said. ...
Notices issued to depts causing pollution in Rawal Lake
RAWALPINDI Environmental Protection Tribunal (EPT) Punjab has issued notices to the concerned departments causing pollution in ...
Karachi
Project in limbo for over 15 years
KARACHI - The KMC supermarket located in Lyari Town has become a hotbed of drug addicts and a waste dumping point due to the long ...
Two alleged activists of TTP remanded
KARACHI - The Judicial Magistrate district (east) Khalil Anwar Jaferi on Friday sent the suspects allegedly associated with ...
Builder falls prey to target killing; 3 die separately
KARACHI - The killing of a builder here on Friday added to the toll of the ongoing target killing wave while three other people ...
Countywide campaign against terrorism stressed
KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar underlined the need to launch an organised campaign of civil society of Pakistan against violence ...
Over Rs81b being spent on social uplift, says CM
KARACHI (APP)- Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that Sindh government will ensure implementing on Annual Development ...
Declamation contests foster thinking abilities
KARACHI - Declamation competitions foster the thinking and analytical skills among students and constructive arguments help ...
Lahore
PFF names Gohar as Pakistan U-19 coach
LAHORE The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has appointed Gohar Zaman of ABL as coach of the U-19 team. The national U-19 ...
MQM starts reorganisation in Punjab
LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has started the process of partys reorganisation in the Punjab, member MQM ...
Punjab makes class-V, VIII exams compulsory
LAHORE - Punjab government has decided to make the exams organised by the Punjab Examination Council (PEC) compulsory for all the ...
S Punjab to be declared tax-free zone
LAHORE - The Cabinet Committee on development of Southern Punjab, set up by Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has recommended ...
'N' leaders use influence to avoid arrest of accused
LAHORE - PML-N leaders are flexing their political muscles to rescue key leaders of the PHA Employees Union, who on Thursday last ...
Promotion of Urdu vital to progress
LAHORE - The Urdu language, fundamental identity of our nation, is the key to excel in the world but unluckily we are hell-bent ...
Collective efforts can root out corruption: Shahbaz
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said that corruption has weakened the foundations of the country and there is a ...
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