Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
The Nation in print for Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Front Page
Rs500b corruption committed
KARACHI The Transparency International Pakistan reveals an increase of corruption in Pakistan, making the country to stand at 42nd position among the corrupt countries in the world. TI Pakistan Chairman Syed Adil Gilani, told a press conference held at Karachi Press Club on Tuesday that ...
Army breaks myth about SWA
ISLAMABAD Security forces have been successful in capturing most of Talibans bases in South Waziristan Agency and are ...
Business
Work on IPI gas pipeline project starts
NEW DELHI (APP) The visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday Pakistan and Iran have started ...
Railways delays awarding contracts
LAHORE - Pakistan Railways first project to privatise the five important rail sections of the department has been delayed ...
Stock market sheds 99 points as investors opt profit-taking
KARACHI - The local investors opted profit taking on Tuesday as KSE 100-index decline by 99 points to close at 9204 points. The ...
Amendments in Income Tax Ord opposed
RAWALPINDI - President Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Kashif Shabbir, has said that major amendments made in ...
Decision to up tariffs flayed
ISLAMABAD - Business community Tuesday strongly opposed the governments decision to increase the power tariff by 12 percent and ...
Sugar at USC from 09:00am to 05:00pm
ISLAMABAD - In order to provide relief to the masses, the Government announced on Tuesday that sugar would be available at all ...
Argentina offers joint ventures to Pak businessmen
LAHORE - Argentina offers huge opportunities to Pakistani businessmen particularly in Livestock and Agriculture sectors therefore ...
Shaheed Usman Ghani Group making conspiracies against MCB: staff union
KARACHI - The Staff Union of MCB Bank Limited (CBA) has categorically denied its association with the Shaheed Usman Ghani Group ...
Oil stays above $78
LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices fell slightly on Tuesday as the dollar strengthened and after recent strong gains for crude ...
Eurozone trade shows firm trade surplus
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The eurozone achieved a trade surplus of 3.7 billion euros (6.5 billion dollars) with the rest of the world in ...
Politics
Agencies hiring interpreters
KARACHI Foreign as well as local agencies are looking for persons understanding the languages being used by terrorists, ...
'Inefficient' advisors, ministers likely to go
ISLAMABAD Although their was no clear mention of fixing responsibility of NRO fiasco in the Central Executive Committee (CEC) ...
Murid replaces Tanoli
PESHAWAR According to an agreement, perhaps the very first one of this kind, NWFP Minister for Revenue Habibur Rehman Tanoli who ...
Entertainment
Age of cyber warfare is dawning
Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of ...
Twins separated in marathon surgery
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Australian doctors successfully separated joined-at-the-head Bangladeshi twins after more than 24 hours of ...
Lohan throws tantrum over free clothes
LINDSAY Lohan must be feeling the pinch The troubled actress apparently threw a massive fit at last Thursdays launch of Jermaine ...
What keeps a couple together for years
IF you are determined to live happily ever after with your spouse youll need a lot more than love to help you last the distance. ...
'Unfriend' named word of 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unfriend has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of ...
Japanese researchers film rare baby fish fossil
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth a rare type of ...
Sports
Diamond Paints trot to semis in style
LAHORE Diamond Paints trotted to an easy 11-5 1/2 victory against struggling Hira Valves on the opening day of the Treet Cup ...
LUMS clinch Universevens Rugby title
LAHORE LUMS won the 'Universevens, a universities rugby tournament that was held at its campus from November 14. Lums beat IUB ...
Dilshan ton lifts Lanka
AHMEDABAD (India) (AFP) Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed his fifth century of the year as Sri Lanka made a spirited reply in the ...
NBP gain 45-run lead against KRL in Quaid Trophy
ISLAMABAD National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) earned 45-run lead against hosts Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in the Quaid-e-Azam ...
Roma stage grand recovery
LAHORE Sabzazars famous Roma FC staged remarkable recovery to beat Rehmania FC in the 6th pre quarter-final of All Punjab Model ...
Minister assures full support to volleyball coach
ISLAMABAD Federal Minister for Sports Pir Aftab Shah Jillani on Tuesday assured the Brazilian coach of Pakistan volleyball team ...
European giants face nervy second leg trials
PARIS (AFP) Three years ago France beat Portugal in the World Cup semi-final - on Wednesday both could fail to even reach the ...
PMC, PEL collect crucial wins
LAHORE Faisalabad-born winger Naeem Ullah struck last-ditch winner to provide three full points to PMC Athletico Club ...
Islamabad
CDA wasting 30m gallons water per day
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Capital Development Authority (CDA), currently running a two-month long awareness drive for water ...
Pakistan Post joins polio eradication campaign
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Post on Tuesday for the first time joined hands with the health ministry in their efforts to get rid ...
Lok Virsa, Norway to jointly promote Pak culture
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Lok Virsa and Riksantikvaran, Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage (NDCH) are working together to enhance ...
A Silence Fractured launched
ISLAMABAD - As Pakistan has intensified its efforts to rout out extremism, diplomatic community appears to be forthcoming in ...
Court issues notices to FBR chief on contempt petition
RAWALPINDI - The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench Tuesday issued notices to Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on a ...
'Rulers copromising on national dignity'
ISLAMABAD - After independence, leadership of this country had never compromised on self-respect and dignity but unfortunately ...
Lahore
'N' planning resolution for Musharraf's trial
LAHORE - After receiving sound signals from the PPP to try former President Pervez Musharraf under high treason, the PML-N is ...
Baloch need royalty not 'charity'
LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif could not reach a complete consensus on Balochistan ...
Zardari reluctant in restoring Aitzaz's CEC membership
LAHORE - Noted lawyer Ch Aitzaz Ahsan found a few sympathisers in the party on Monday when the issue of his restoration as member ...
Govt must protect vital national interests
LAHORE - Former Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri has stressed on adopting a pro-active policy to safeguard vital national ...
Mid-term polls legitimate, democratic: Imran
LAHORE - Terming demand of mid-term election as legitimate and democratic, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said ...
No Pakistani movie on Eid, but Indians
LAHORE - As Lollywood has desperately failed to produce any local movie for Eid-ul-Azha, all cinemas in the province have planned ...
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