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 Friday, November 21, 2008
Front Page
NA united in denouncing Bannu drone attack
ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Thursday strongly condemned the US-led coalition forces drone attack in Bannu District and termed it a serious violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan and an insult of the joint resolution of the Parliament. The parliamentarians from all ...
Shutterdown, wheel-jam cripple Balochistan
QUETTA-Complete wheel-jam and shutter-down strike was observed on Thursday in Quetta and other parts of the province on the call ...
9 of a family among 16 killed in Swat shelling
SWAT - At least nine family members, included children and women, were killed and four others injured on Thursday when a shell, ...
Govt may slap flat rate tax on agri land
ISLAMABAD - Following the IMF conditions, the government is considering to impose annually Rs 25,000 to 40,000 flat rate tax on ...
International
Jordan King meets Abbas after 'secret' Israeli talks
AMMAN (Agencies) - Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks on Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas two days after ...
Somali pirates demand $25m for Saudi oil tanker
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil super-tanker demanded a 25 million dollar ransom Thursday amid calls ...
Jews desecrate mosque, graves
HEBRON (AFP) - Jewish settlers angry at an Israeli court order for their eviction from a house in Hebron desecrated a mosque and ...
Doubts hang over BD polls
DHAKA (AFP) - The prospect of Bangladesh holding its first democratic elections in seven years hung in the balance Thursday after ...
Daschle, Napolitano; Obama's new pick
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama picked former Senate leader Tom Daschle to end the US healthcare crisis and stocked his White ...
Russia allows Germany shipments to Afghanistan
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia said Thursday it has authorised the transport of German military equipment to Afghanistan through Russian ...
Bangkok protest blast kills one
BANGKOK (AFP) - A grenade attack on demonstrators occupying the Thai prime minister's offices killed one person and wounded 29 ...
Seven dead in Yemen clashes
SANAA (AFP) - Four Yemeni policemen were among seven people killed in clashes between security forces and suspected Al-Qaeda ...
Boy killed for writing love letter
MUMBAI (Agencies) - An Indian teenager who dared to write a love letter to a sweetheart from a higher caste was beaten and ...
Young guns fire England as Maradona enjoys start
PARIS (AFP) - England's young generation laid the bedrock for a 2-1 win over bitter rivals Germany on Wednesday while old nemesis ...
Russia, India to hold naval manoeuvres
MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian and Indian navies will take part in joint manoeuvres in the Indian Ocean in January 2009, the RIA ...
Business
Korea to provide $205m loan to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan and Korea here on Thursday signed two loan agreements worth US $ 205 million under Economic ...
Agri credit disbursement soars over 16pc to Rs57.6b
KARACHI - Disbursement of credit to the agriculture sector by commercial and specialized banks has increased by 16.20 percent ...
E&P sector profit expected to go down by 6-7 per cent
KARACHI - The earnings of heavyweight energy, power and oil companies are expected to go down by 6 to 7 per cent during FY09 ...
No tax on agriculture sector, says Qamar
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Privatisation Naveed Qamar said Thursday that neither IMF has put forwarded any condition ...
World stock markets dive amid fresh job cuts
LONDON (AFP) - Global stock markets tumbled Thursday, with Tokyo losing nearly seven percent and European indices deep in the red ...
KSE flat as brokers await decisions on 'floor', supporting fund
LAHORE - Trading volume on the Karachi Stock market on Thursday shrank modestly from the already recent lows and business resumed ...
No plan to slash social sector development expenditures
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Salman Faruqui has categorically stated that government has no plan to ...
Govt joins hands with UNDP for wind power generation
KARACHI - UNDP in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan (GoP) and the funding of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is ...
Spice up your health - the benefits of genuine spices
WHEN a friend told Asad that saffron helps alleviate mild to moderate depression, Asad consulted his doctor and thereafter he ...
Teradata announces results
LAHORE - Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise ...
Politics
FIA gets transit remand of forex scam accused
LAHORE - District and Sessions Judge Lahore on Thursday granted three days transit remand of two accused of forex scam Munaf ...
Iran hopes for early recovery of envoy
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here expressed the hope that the government of Pakistan would leave no stone ...
Implementation deferred till SC verdict
ISLAMABAD - The Law Ministry has halted implementation of legislation against death penalty until a decision by Supreme Court on ...
Iran can build one nuke:NYT
NEW YORK-Iran has produced enough material to make one nuclear weapon, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing nuclear ...
Indian investors selling Pak rice
ISLAMABAD - Indian investors were violating the intellectual property rights of Pakistan by selling Pakistani rice in the ...
Parliament's security body calls ministers
ISLAMABAD - Special Committee of Parliament on National Security has summoned foreign, defence and interior ministers and the ...
Patterson summoned to FO
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Thursday summoned the US Ambassador to Foreign Office and lodged a strong protest over the missile strikes ...
Rs111m for wall around President's Naudero house?
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari is not different from his predecessor General (Retd) Musharraf on the issue of his ...
Bureaucrat's luxury travel riles ministers
KARACHI - Contrary to the Prime Minister's announcement of curtailing non-development expenditures, the bureaucracy is using ...
Senior FC College professor shot dead
LAHORE-Two unidentified men gunned down a senior professor of Forman Christian (FC) College Lahore at his official residence ...
Taliban threaten revenge attacks
MIRANSHAH (AFP) - A Pakistani Taliban commander warned on Thursday there would be reprisals by militants across the country if ...
It's a bilateral issue: UN
THE UN on Thursday said that US raids on Pakistani soil was a bilateral issue between the two countries which should be resolved ...
Arif elected CPNE President
ISLAMABAD - Arif Nizami has been elected President Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) in the elections of the body for ...
Defence lawyer says Aafia is torture victim
NEW YORK - Aafia Siddiqui's defence lawyer has told the judge in her clients case that the detained Pakistani neuroscientist is ...
Int'l rules prohibit China-Pakistan N. deal: US lawmaker
WASHINGTON: - A prominent US lawmaker Thursday says he has received a letter from the State Department confirming that providing ...
Entertainment
Kitten meows with two mouths
SHOCKED vets have delivered a kitten with two faces. The kitten can only eat with one of its mouths, due to a cleft palate - but ...
Heather Mills files complaints against UK newspapers
SIR Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills is after the British press. The former model has filed complaints against four UK ...
Placebo to play anti-slavery gig
BANGKOK (AFP) - Alternative guitar band Placebo are to headline the first rock concert at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex, ...
Rufino Tamayo fetches $6.8m at Sotheby's
NEW YORK (AFP) - Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo's sprawling "America" fetched 6.8 million dollars, just under pre-auction ...
Michael Jackson to give evidence in London court
LONDON (AFP) - Pop megastar Michael Jackson will testify in person at London's High Court next week against allegations that he ...
The psychology of deja vu
All of us have experienced being in a new place and feeling certain that we have been there before. This mysterious feeling, ...
Islamabad
Abdul Qadir named cricket chief selector
ISLAMABAD - Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt named former Test player Abdul Qadir as the head of the national ...
Sub committee formed to ponder changes in PCB constitution
ISLAMABAD - The committee set up to review the constitution of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to formulate a ...
Play your natural game, Miandad tells Malik, Misbah
ISLAMABAD - Legendary cricketer and newly-appointed Director General of the Pakistan Cricket Board Javed Miandad has advised ...
PM assures full support to PCB for holding India series
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the government would fully back the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in ...
Pindi, Lahore in Inter-Board Tennis 2nd round
ISLAMABAD - Rawalpindi, Lahore and Federal Education Boards qualified for the second round of the All Pakistan Inter-Boards ...
CDA to take over fake housing scheme
ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority (CDA), being regulatory authority, will take over the project of Jeddah Town ...
National campaign against child abuse launched
ISLAMABAD - The government is aggressively pursuing implementation of the core human rights instruments concerning children, said ...
Senate body for maintaining HEC autonomy
ISLAMABAD-The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science & Technology has demanded more autonomy for the Higher Education ...
Slimming centres duping simpletons
ISLAMABAD - Slimming centres operating across the country are duping innocent people through their cunning manoeuvres, TheNation ...
'Dengue control centres to be set up'
RAWALPINDI - Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Haseeb Athar has said that polio and dengue fever can be controlled with the ...
CDA financial loss around Rs 40b
ISLAMABAD (Online)- The financial loss of Capital Development Authority (CDA) has risen by Rs 40 billion and only Rs 6 billion ...
Karachi
No respite for commercial users
KARACHI - The new revised tariff brought no remedy to the commercial users of the utility while 13 per cent reduction in domestic ...
Inflated bills of November
KARACHI - The 40pc increased tariff in the October power bills, which were indicated as arrears, has now been added in November ...
Rizvi and Jatoi in race for top slot
KARACHI - The elections of Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) is scheduled to be held on November 22 (tomorrow) while the ...
Grabbing of state land flayed
KARACHI - The federal and provincial governments should take immediate notice about the capturing of amenity plots in Karachi, ...
Mirza for speeding up anti-ammu drive
Karachi- Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza directed senior police officials to accelerate operation for recovery of ...
Cut in angiography fee ordered
Karachi (PPI) - Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has ordered a cut Rs5000 in the angiography fee at government ...
Lahore
Junaid strikes as Punjab in deep trouble
LAHORE - NWFP's Junaid Khan has pushed Punjab in deep trouble on day three of the RBS Pentangular Cup match here at the Gaddafi ...
Adeem excels as PIA complete double over PEL
LAHORE - Faisalabad-born winger Ali Adeem Shahzad came out as hero from the field as the 156th match of Pakistan Premier Soccer ...
Graduate wardens' new face
LAHORE - The traffic wardens are showing their new face as complaints against the graduate traffic wardens of torturing and ...
Uplift projects in the doldrums
LAHORE - Majority of the projects included in Punjab Development Programme have not been initiated as yet due to the confusion ...
'N' joins PPP rally
LAHORE - In a rare of show of solidarity, the PPP and the PML-N, the two estranged coalition partners in Punjab, organised a ...
Rana's volte-face on PPP's Governor
LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan made a dramatic political volte-face when he virtually took an about-turn from ...
Govt to amend Police Order '02
LAHORE - The Punjab government is mulling amendments in the Police Order 2002 in a bid to improve the performance of the police ...
Internationalisation of judges' issue
LAHORE - The visit of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to US has galvanized the international legal fraternity to ...
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