Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
The Nation in print for Saturday, November 15, 2008
Front Page
Fresh airstrike kills 14 in Waziristan
PESHAWAR - At least 14 suspected militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone fired missiles on a house in sub-division Razmak, headquarters Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency in wee hours of Friday. The spy plane targeted a house owned by a local tribal Ameer Gul, resident ...
Shaukat Mazari dies on PA floor
LAHORE-Former Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly and PML(N) MPA Sardar Shaukat Hussain Mazari breathed his last due to cardiac arrest ...
Foreign journalists shot
PESHAWAR - Two foreign journalists were injured on Friday when some unidentified militants fired at them in Shahkus area of ...
'Culture of Peace' rejects religious terror
UNITED NATIONS-An interfaith declaration, sponsored by Pakistan and the Philippines, that rejected the use of religion for ...
International
Blockaded Gaza faces disaster, says Oxfam
GAZA CITY (Agencies) - The UK-based aid agency Oxfam has warned of catastrophe for Gaza and nearby areas of Israel if a truce ...
Violence hits crucial India state elections
RAIPUR (Agencies) - Indian troops battled Maoist rebels in the east of the country Friday as violence marred the start of a ...
Russian MPs approve longer presidential term
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian lawmakers on Friday approved constitutional changes extending the length of presidential terms, a move ...
Top Iraq official upbeat over US, British pullout pacts
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq is likely to approve a military pact with a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by 2011 and ...
China warns France over meeting with Dalai Lama
BEIJING (AFP) - China on Friday warned that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama could hurt ...
Indian probe lands on moon, sends images
BANGALORE, India (AFP) - An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a ...
Ten dead in Indonesia landslide
JAKARTA (AFP) - Ten people have been killed and 14 are feared dead after a landslide triggered by heavy rain crushed scores of ...
President speaks to Hillary and Kerry
NEW YORK - With the UN interfaith conference over, President Asif Ali Zardari worked the phones, making contacts with U.S. ...
UN suspends food aid to 750,000 Gazans following border closure
UNITED NATIONS - The UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees said Thursday it was forced to suspend food distributions to half ...
Windies reduce Pakistan to 232
ABU DHABI (AFP) - West Indies bowled a disciplined line and length to dismiss Pakistan for 232 in the second one-day ...
Ruthless India crush England after Yuvraj ton
RAJKOT (AFP) - England narrowly avoided their worst one-day defeat in terms of runs as India won the first game of the ...
Lahore Badshahs win first final
AHMEDABAD (Agencies) - Opener Imran Farhat combined brute power with elegance was good enough despite a middle-order collapse to ...
India must tour Pakistan
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Former captain Ramiz Raja Friday urged India to send its cricket team to Pakistan, saying the two countries ...
Chanderpaul says Twenty20 format won't surpass Tests
HONG KONG (AFP) - World cricketer of the year Shivnarine Chanderpaul says players are increasingly eyeing the huge paychecks ...
Pakistan clinch series
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit a fighting century but couldn't stop Pakistan winning the second day-night ...
Business
Bush sets tone for G-20 Summit
NEW YORK - US President W. Bush has set the tone for the upcoming Group-20 Summit, saying that the meeting will focus on ...
Banks advances up by 20 per cent
LAHORE - Advances growth of the banking system has jumped by 20 per cent YoY in Calendar Year 2008 to date on the back of ...
Minfal seeks to import around 600,000 tonnes
ISLAMABAD - In a bid to meet domestic demand of urea fertilizer, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) is ...
Rice procurement from millers against farmers' interests: Mughal
ISLAMABAD - The government's decision to procure rice from the millers instead of the farmers would not benefit the farmers and ...
Makran Coastal Highway extended up to Iran border
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Makran Coastal Highway (N-10) has been extended up to the Gabd which has provided people an alternative route ...
IMF assistance vital for Pakistan: businessmen
LAHORE (APP) - The business community has termed $ 7.5 billion financial assistance by IMF vital for Pakistan economy. This ...
Stock market again on flat mode with meek volume
LAHORE - Business resumed on the last day of business week Friday in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) with some activity but remained ...
Oil loses ground as Opec confirms output meet
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices fell on Friday, a day after slumping close to 50 dollars, despite growing expectations the OPEC crude ...
SPI-based inflation decreases
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), for the week ended on November 13, for the lowest income group up to ...
Interim report on economic stabilisation with a human face
CHAPTER 3 A separate task force has been assigned the responsibility of designing a program for the country's food ...
Politics
Stop Nato attacks in Fata, BA asks govt
QUETTA - The Balochistan Assembly has demanded of the Federal govt for taking effective steps for stoppage of US attacks in ...
Hillary tipped as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON - Senator Hillary Clinton's name emerged Thursday as a possible candidate for secretary of state in the upcoming Obama ...
Tarin accuses US of pushing Pak to bankruptcy
PAKISTAN has accused the United States of pushing it closer to bankruptcy by withholding up to $1 billion (675m pounds) in ...
Govt not to sell Gasfield, PSM
ISLAMABAD - The government has reiterated that Qadirpur Gasfield (QGF) and Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation (PSMC) would not be ...
I will never appear in PCO courts: Nawaz
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - PML-N Quaid and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he does not accept the present judicial ...
Entertainment
Katie Holmes copying David Beckham instead of Posh
WITH her woollen hat and jeans combination in chilly New York, now that Katie Holmes has abandoned copying one Beckham, it seems ...
Queen throws a birthday bash for Charles
THE Queen, who recently spoke of her pride in her heir and eldest son, threw a special party at Buckingham Palace on Thursday in ...
Watching television, channelling unhappiness?
ARE happy or unhappy people more attracted to television? This question is addressed by a new 30-year analysis1 of US national ...
Syjuco wins Asian book prize
HONG KONG (AFP) - A novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco, that touches on 150 years of often turbulent Philippines history, has ...
ECG can't predict risk in everyone?
PARIS (AFP) - A routine examination by a doctor works almost as well as an electrocardiogram " better known as an ECG or EKG " in ...
Wildfire devastates celebrity enclave
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Wind-swept flames have destroyed at least 70 homes in the swank celebrity community of Montecito in southern ...
Islamabad
PNCA 'cinema' fails to revive film industry
ISLAMABAD - The task of reviving dying cinema industry of the country by using the auditorium of Pakistan National Council of ...
Govt decides to abolish treatment component
ISLAMABAD - The prevailing financial crunch in the country has also hit the National Programme for Prevention and Control of ...
Sword hangs on HEC foreign scholars
ISLAMABAD- Lack of foresight on the part of authorities concerned has put the future of thousands of overseas Pakistani students ...
Project to be executed at any cost: CDA Chief
ISLAMABAD (APP)- The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has once again planned to execute the Margalla Tunnel project that was ...
Children Parliament elected to promote child rights
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The first ever children's parliament of its kind was elected here on Friday to raise awareness and promote ...
Housing units MoU signed with US firm
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) and Ultimate Building Systems, USA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for ...
Atlas downs Mehboob to clinch title
ISLAMABAD - Second seed, Aamir Atlas Khan downed top seed compatriot Farhan Mehboob 3-1 in the final of the Pakistan Open Squash ...
Eltorky topples defending champion Christina
ISLAMABAD - World number 54, Heba Eltorky of Egypt toppled defending champions Christina Mac of Hong Kong in straight games 3-0 ...
Aqeel, Shahzad, Jibran, Shafique qualify for semis
ISLAMABAD - Top seed Aqeel Khan, Shahzad Khan, Jibran Muhammadi and Asim Shafique qualified for the semifinals of the Silver ...
Karachi
Shakaib acquitted in Murtaza murder case
KARACHI - The Additional District and Sessions Judge (East) on Friday acquitted former SSP (Investigation) Shakaib Qureshi from ...
Robbers kill cop, guard during Rs 4 million bank robbery
KARACHI - Unidentified robbers killed a policeman and security guard on offering resistance during dacoity in a local bank on ...
Conspirators want clash between ST and MQM: Ataf
KARACHI - MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has said that terrorists were hatching conspiracy to sabotage peace in the metropolis. In a ...
WHO ranks Pakistan 7th on diabetes prevalence list
KARACHI - In Pakistan, 6.9 million people are affected by diabetes with the International Diabetes Federation estimating that ...
Call for developing alternate energy resources
KARACHI - Speakers in a meeting of Shura Hamdard Karachi chapter have urged the government to develop solar, wind and coal energy ...
PPP-MQM leaders thrash thorny issues
The meetings were held in London to settle outstanding issues between the two major allies in Sindh, the PPP and the MQM. The ...
Lahore
'80 pc MPs have been in jails': Minister Prisons'
LAHORE - On Friday at the Punjab Assembly, it was a Question-Hour on Jails, Labour and Human Resource Departments, but it sounded ...
Use of suparis by school children goes unchecked
LAHORE - The trend of using suparies (betel nut) and gutka (kind of tobacco) among school going children is gaining sharp ...
Increased power tariff levied on industrial units suspended
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday suspended the increased tariff of electricity levied on industrial units by directing ...
PU gets 16 rooms vacated from illegal occupants
LAHORE - The Punjab University administration has got vacated 16 rooms of Old Campus (Khalid Bin Waleed Hostel) from the illegal ...
Plea filed to bring money back from banks abroad
LAHORE - A petition has been moved in the Lahore High Court urging for an order to politicians to bring back their money from ...
PPP to have health, C&W slots, says Raja
LAHORE- Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz has said that PML-N has agreed to give the portfolios of Health and Communication and ...
PHF announces senior team management
LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation has on Friday announced the new senior team management with stress on the playing ...
Bacochistan face innings defeat
LAHORE - Beleaguered Balochistan is facing an innings defeat against Punjab on day three of the RBS Pentangular Cup four-day ...
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