Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 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
The Nation in print for Monday, November 24, 2008
Front Page
Zardari, Shahbaz to thrash out Punjab coalition issues
LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif are meeting in a couple of days to thrash out coalition issues in Punjab, and to further defuse the tension between the coalition partners created after a provocative statement by the Punjab Law Minister against Governor ...
First IMF tranche of $3.2b in 14 days
ISLAMABAD " International Monetary Fund's Executive Board would be considering on Monday (today) a 23-month $7.6 billion standby ...
4,000 US troops to man Pak border
KABUL (AFP) - A brigade of 3,500-4,000 extra US troops due in Afghanistan in January will be deployed in the east along the ...
Musharraf in UK to meet his protege
LONDON - Former President Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf arrived in London on Sunday by PIA flight PK-785. He was accompanied by his ...
International
Pettersen seizes lead after third round of ADT Championship
WEST PALM BEACH (Florida) (AFP) - Suzann Pettersen topped the leaderboard heading into the final round of the season-ending ...
US-backed ME talks fail to resolve even single issue
RAMALLAH (AFP) - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas hit out at US-backed Middle East peace talks on Sunday on the eve of a White ...
Hundreds protest against 'fascist' Bush
LIMA (AFP) - Hundreds of students rallied late Saturday in Peru outside of the US ambassador's residence to denounce visiting ...
Israel military urges 'plan for Iran strike'
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A security assessment drawn up by Israeli defence chiefs calls for contingency plans to be prepared for ...
Iraq's independence only if foreign forces quit: Syria
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Iraq's neighbours should crack down on networks which are facilitating terrorism in the war-torn country, the US ...
With Geithner at Treasury, Obama builds team
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US president-elect Barack Obama was set to unveil his economic team amid the global financial crisis, his ...
Bangkok braces for anti-govt rally
BANGKOK (Agencies) - Police prepared barricades, schools cancelled classes and zoo animals were moved to safety as Bangkok braced ...
Jordan warns of crisis
AMMAN (AFP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II warned on Sunday of a "humanitarian crisis" in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, urging the ...
Tension builds in Somali pirate lair
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Tension mounted Sunday between pirates holding a Saudi tanker and Muslim fighters threatening to attack them, ...
Guinea-Bissau President's home attacked
BISSAU (AFP) - The residence of Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira came under fire Sunday from troops in a ...
'Shots fired' near Georgia leader convoy
TBILISI (AFP) - Russian forces at a checkpoint near Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region fired shots near a convoy of vehicles ...
Politics
Cooperation with Islamabad best ever: Nato
KABUL (Agencies) - NATO said on Sunday cooperation between its troops in Afghanistan and the Pakistani Army is the best it has ...
Clashes mar Kashmir elections
GANDERBAL (Agencies) - Indian riot police baton-charged hundreds of anti-poll protesters in Kashmir Sunday as the state voted in ...
'Award of Courage' for Iftikhar
NEW YORK (Agencies) - The Pakistani-American Physicians and Doctors for Democracy and Justice Inc (PAPDDJ) has bestowed an award ...
Zardari off to UAE today
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - President Asif Ali Zardari will embark on a two-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today ...
US journalist calls for more pressure on India to resolve Kashmir
NEW YORK - A celebrated American journalist has called for intensifying efforts to find a solution to the long-standing Kashmir ...
British MPs demand clarity over Rauf's death
LONDON (AFP) - Two British lawmakers urged the government to reveal Sunday whether it knew in advance about a US missile attack ...
Obama vows to fight terror in region: Karzai
KABUL (Agencies) - US President-elect Barack Obama pledged in a telephone conversation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that ...
Rehman orders 101 Indian prisoners release
ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has ordered the release of 101 Indian prisoners who have completed ...
Bangladesh elections on December 29
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's army-backed authorities on Sunday said the country's polls, set to return power to an elected ...
US to support talks on Kashmir: Obama aide
NEW DELHI (APP) - Karl Inderfurth, a key aide of US President-elect Barack Obama has said the US would support Pak-India talks to ...
Sen. Ishaq Dar asks U.N. to do more to resolve conflicts
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has urged the U.N. to do more in resolving the inter-state conflicts which posed real threat to ...
Al-Qaeda stepping up efforts to develop 'dirty bomb': report
NEW YORK - MI-6, the British intelligence agency, has issued a global warning to all security services that Islamic terrorists ...
Entertainment
Stop using energy drinks or you'll die
A British girl of 13 who drank up to 50 energy drinks a week has been warned to beat her addiction or risk a heart attack. Naomi ...
Qatar art museum shows Islam's true values
DOHA (AFP) - The new Museum of Islamic Arts in the Qatari capital aims to show that Islam is a religion of "tolerance" and not ...
Prince William cause of Hilton and Benji split
PARIS Hilton and Benji Madden split because Benji was jealous of her relationship with Britain's Prince William, it has been ...
Scientists eye made-to-order bones
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese hospitals are running a clinical trial on the world's first custom-made bones which would fit neatly into ...
Endeavour astronauts conduct repairs on third spacewalk
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour have completed a seven-hour spacewalk as part of an effort to ...
Stradivarius violin better than other violins?
SOME sell for more than $3.5 million. Only 700 of them exist, and they're stored in vaults, frequently stolen and often ...
Islamabad
Usman shines with gold in SA shooting event
ISLAMABAD - Usman Sadiq grabbed another gold medal for Pakistan in the ongoing 4th South Asian Shooting Championship on Sunday ...
Pindi boys grab Inter-board tennis title
ISLAMABAD - Hosts Rawalpindi Board clinched the title of All Pakistan Inter-Board Boys Tennis Championship 2008 by beating Lahore ...
CDA eyes foreign investment to handle financial crisis
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is strategising to attract foreign investors in the Federal Capital and ...
Sirohey's book hailed
ISLAMABAD - 'Death of American Empire', a recent book written by emerging writer A.A Sirohey is being widely hailed among ...
'Time-tested friendship to grow'
ISLAMABAD - Chinese people cannot be intimidated by the cowardly acts of a few losers who are trying to sabotage the relations ...
Govt asked to shelve tunnel project at Margalla Hills
ISLAMABAD - The future of Margalla Hills is at stake as government is planning to review the construction project of a road ...
PM opens anti-polio drive today
ISLAMABAD - PM Yousaf Raza Gillani will inaugurate a three-day Anti-Polio Campaign today (Monday). During the campaign ...
Capital now has widest road across country
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Work on seven-kilometer Islamabad Expressway has been completed, making it the widest road across the country, ...
National
Sri Lanka's Hanatha wins seventh stage of Tour de Pakistan
SAHIWAL - Janaka Hanatha of six Lanka with the margin of only 10 second clinched the seventh stage of the 14th Tour de Pakistan ...
Karachi
Changes in LG system still in abeyance
KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly session is starting from today (Monday) without legislative business on the agenda of the first day ...
Altaf asks goverment to impose farm tax
KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that country is going through worst financial crisis. He ...
South Asia must overcome energy shortage: Saarc
KARACHI - It is the time when world is passing through an era of economic recession. Fortunately, the economies of South Asia so ...
'O God propel more Edhis here'
Pakistan's most respected, favourite, popular philanthropist and renowned social worker Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi has pledged to ...
Jakhrani PPP candidate for NA-210 by-polls
KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party has decided to nominate Advisor to CM Prison Gul Mohammad Jakhrani as PPP candidate for ...
Traders reject increase in gas prices
KARACHI - All Pakistan Organisation of Small Traders and Cottage Industries Karachi division has rejected the 7.7 per cent hike ...
Lahore
Bukhatir's Ten Sports again lands TV rights to Pakistan cricket
LAHORE - In a three and a half fold jump over what it earned in the last five years (around $42 million for 2004-08) from ...
Butt to visit India to save series
LAHORE (Agencies) - Pakistan's cricket chief will visit India next week in a bid to save the home series between the two ...
HBL whip off-colour PEL 6-0
LAHORE - The most one-sided scoreline of ongoing Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008 was recorded today when former National ...
Rehan Butt named in Worldhockey All Stars team
LAHORE - Pakistan hockey star Rehan Butt was selected in Worldhockey All Stars Team 2008. After the success of the World Hockey ...
Honours for Shoaib Bokhari and Amir Mehmood
LAHORE - In the 360 Corporate Golf Challenge 2008 contested at the par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course, the corporate leaders ...
Diamond Paints victorious
LAHORE - Diamond Paint edged out Learning Alliance by 9-6 in the absorbing final of the Lahore Polo Club Cup at the Aibak ground ...
'It's a mischief not terrorism'
LAHORE - City police high-ups Sunday constituted special teams of police officers to investigate the case of Qaddafi Stadium ...
Govt directs officials to trace perpetrators
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said that despite all security measures on the occasion of the World Performing ...
No compromise on Indus Water Treaty, says Jamaat
LAHORE - Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali has said that Pakistan will not tolerate any cut in its water share by India ...
PHA launches parks adoption project
LAHORE - The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided in principle to run all big parks in the city with the ...
Export of gems, jewellery can bring millions of dollars
LAHORE - Federal Secretary for Industries and Production Shahab Khawaja has reiterated the government's resolve to provide ...
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