Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Front Page
Pakistan can shoot down US drones, says Air Chief
KARACHI (Agencies) - Air Force is fully capable of stopping missile attacks by pilotless American drones but it is up to the government to decide whether to do that, Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Tanvir Mahmood said on Tuesday. Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed said it was up to the government to decide ...
Karzai wants date for foreign troops pullout
KABUL (Agencies) - President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international ...
'Assemblies should be empowered to discuss conduct of judges'
LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday that the Constitution should be suitably amended so as to provide for ...
Courts keep govt under constitutional norms: Iftikhar
WASHINGTON (Online) - Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday underlined that the basic purpose of courts is ...
International
Tiger loses big sponsor deal after nine years
DETROIT (Michigan) (AFP) - Tiger Woods and General Motors have agreed to end their endorsement deal after nine years at the end ...
Kuwait in crisis as cabinet quits
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait was plunged into a new crisis on Tuesday after the cabinet in the oil-rich Gulf state resigned over a ...
Israel again seals off Gaza
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israel reacted on Tuesday to fighters' rocket fire by again sealing off the Gaza Strip, where officials said ...
Iran seeks death penalty for 'Israel spies'
TEHRAN (AFP) - The top public prosecutor in Tehran said on Tuesday he would seek the death penalty against three Iranians accused ...
Somali pirates push for ransom bonanza
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates Tuesday were engaged in talks over ransoms for several vessels, including a Saudi oil tanker, an ...
Lebanon ratifies nuclear test treaty
VIENNA (AFP) - Lebanon on Tuesday became the 148th nation to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the organisation ...
Obama calls for sacrifice as economic team rolled out
CHICAGO (AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama was set Tuesday to promote swift action to revive the US economy, and appeal for ...
Almost half of Egyptian wives beaten
CAIRO (AFP) - Almost half of married Egyptian women have been physically abused by their husbands, a study by the government ...
Bangkok airport closed as protests turn violent
Bangkok (AFP) - Rampaging anti-government protesters forced the closure of Thailand's main international airport Tuesday as a ...
Sri Lanka poised to take rebel HQs
COLOMBO (AFP) - Security forces ambushed and killed scores of Tamil Tigers in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the defence ministry ...
100-plus Christian killed by Hindu extremists
NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 100 Christians were killed in weeks of violence in eastern India and 10,000 remain in government ...
Business
US to inject another $800b into economy
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities launched fresh efforts Tuesday to unfreeze credit and limit the economic downturn with programs ...
Pakistan gets $7.6 billion bailout loan from IMF
WASHINGTON - Pakistan will get immediate access to about $3.1 billion after the International Monetary Fund's executive board ...
Rich countries face worst recessions since early 1980s: OECD
PARIS (AFP) - The rich world is plunging into the worst economic downturn in decades, the OECD forecast on Tuesday, as ...
IMF package to pave way for economic stability: Shamshad
HYDERABAD/KARACHI (AFP/APP) - State Bank of Pakistan Governor Shamshad Akhtar here on Tuesday said the rescue package of ...
Businessmen real economic drivers: PM
KARACHI (APP) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that businessmen were the real economic drivers of the country and they ...
UAE company keen to set up coal-based power plant
ABU DHABI (APP) - Abu Dhabi National Energy Company on Tuesday showed its keenness to invest in Pakistan's energy sector, ...
Oil, gas production witnesses increase
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The oil and gas production has witnessed increase by 4 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively during the ...
Karachi stock market closes unchanged with modest volume
LAHORE - Business resumed on Tuesday in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) with very slow activity and throughout the day remained ...
Govt leaders to meet in Doha on 29th as world economy falters
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations conference focusing on ensuring sufficient financing to meet key development goals amid ...
German media team briefed about investment in Pakistan
LAHORE (APP) - Federal Minister for Investment, Senator Waqar Ahmed Khan has said that Pakistan is a land of opportunities for ...
Politics
SHC allows Qadir Jatoi to return home
KARACHI - Sindh High Court has barred the concerned authorities from arresting Sindhi nationalist leader, Qadir Bux Jatoi, if he ...
Pakistan offer naval support for anti-piracy campaign
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has offered to contribute its naval support to the international anti-piracy operations off the ...
UN to honour Benazir Bhutto
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has decided to honour former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto posthumously with its top human ...
Pakistan frees 101 Indian prisoners
KARACHI - The government of Pakistan has released 99 Indian fishermen who were detained in Malir Jail, Karachi, while 355 others ...
UNGA president compares Israeli policies to apartheid
UNITED NATIONS - Israel on Tuesday protested the remarks of General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto, a former foreign minister ...
Muslim charity group's leaders convicted
NEW YORK - A federal jury in Dallas, Texas, found five men with ties to a major Muslim charity guilty of dozens of criminal ...
Governor advises Nawaz to relax
LAHORE - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has said that it is his constitutional right to seek from the Chief Minister details ...
Shahbaz reminds Taseer of constitutional limits
LAHORE-In a reply to series of letters by Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has written a letter to ...
Sana invites Taseer to address PA
LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has invited Governor Salman Taseer to address Punjab Assembly to express his ...
Entertainment
'Twilight' takes big bite out of box office
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Teen vampire film "Twilight" sunk its fangs into the North American box office at the weekend, scaring up ...
Amy Winehouse back in hospital
LONDON (AFP) - Troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse was admitted to a hospital over the weekend because of a bad reaction ...
Mysterious portrait of Lucrezia Borgia
SYDNEY (AFP) - A mysterious Renaissance portrait has been identified as a painting by Dosso Dossi of legendary femme fatale ...
Endeavour astronauts finish last spacewalk
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two US astronauts Monday finished the fourth and last spacewalk of the shuttle Endeavour's mission at the ...
Britney poses for Rolling Stone cover
BRITNEY Spears appears finally to have put her much-publicised breakdown behind her after landing the cover of Rolling Stone ...
World's first disabled who does backflip in wheelchair
A daredevil teenager has become the first person ever to perform a backflip in a wheelchair. Aaron Fotheringham, 16, who is known ...
Islamabad
Ushna, Saba crash out of Future Tennis Circuit
ISLAMABAD - All the dazzle turned into gloom national duo Ushna Suhail and Saba Aziz crashed out of the 1st ITF Pakistan Women's ...
'Diversion of heavy traffic to damage IJP Road'
ISLAMABAD - Capital Development Authority (CDA) has expressed serious concerns over the Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP)'s plan of ...
SC asks litigants to compromise or face the music
ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the litigants of ''PolyClinic Torture Case'' to either strike an out of court ...
Japanese arts, handicraft traditions to be displayed tomorrow
ISLAMABAD - The rich arts and handicraft traditions emanated from the Japanese art culture would be introduced in Islamabad in an ...
Demo against Industrial Relations Bills
ISLAMABAD - Hundred of Trade union representatives and workers here on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the ...
Legislation on cards to end violence against women
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Acting President Dr Fehmida Mirza on Tuesday said no society can progress without the participation of women in ...
New transport fares list issued
ISLAMABAD - Secretary Islamabad Transport Authority Bashir Ahmed told on Tuesday that the new transport fares issued by the ...
Karachi
Opp opposes KSE bailout package
KARACHI - Opposing the proposed bailout package of federal government for stockbrokers, the lawmakers in Sindh Assembly on ...
SHC serves notices on Federal and Sindh governments
KARACHI - Sindh High Court Tuesday issued notice to Secretaries Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Interior, Sindh Home ...
Khanani and Kalia bail plea hearing adjourned till 27th
KARACHI - The District and Sessions Judge Court South on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on the bail plea moved by the accused ...
MQM opposes privatisation of Qadirpur Gas Field
KARACHI - Senior Sindh Minister, Pir Mazharul Haq, has criticised the major coalition partner MQM for endorsing an adjournment ...
Zardari for handing over historical sites to provinces
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism Sassui Palijo said Tuesday that President Asif Ali Zardari had promised to ...
Environment issues raised with DHA
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Environment Hasan Askari Taqvi and MNA Khushbakht Shujaat visited DHA Main Office here Tuesday and ...
Pakistan name squad for Women Jr Asia Cup
KARACHI - PHF chief selector former Olympian Hasan Sardar here on Tuesday announced an 18-member Pakistan team for women's Asia ...
Ejaz overcomes Belgium challenge in Sr Tennis
KARACHI - Ejaz Sarhadi of Pakistan eased into the quarter final of 45 plus singles event of the international senior tennis ...
Maliha, Usman lift titles in Karachi junior TT
KARACHI - Top seeds Maliha Khursheed and Usman Ahmed won the girls and boy's singles crown respectively of the KTTA Junior ...
Lahore
Trio of ex-servicemen causing harassment
LAHORE - The Federal government has asked the Punjab government to probe into the human rights abuse reportedly by three ...
'Fayyaz Ranjha Shaukat Aziz of Mayo Hospital'
LAHORE - Some senior doctors of the Mayo Hospital came hard on the institute's former MS and presently appointed as Executive ...
Dictators blamed for selling rivers to India
LAHORE - With stand off between the two allies intensifying, top PPP and PML (N) provincial leaders once again tried to put up a ...
Speakers demand exemplary punishment to Musharraf
LAHORE - PML-N celebrated the completion of one year of Nawaz Sharif's return to the country after seven years exile with the ...
CM urges paramedics and doctors to deliver efficaciously
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that government is attaching top priority to the provision of modern ...
No agri tax on farmers, Assembly assured
LAHORE - Senior Punjab Minister, Raja Riaz and Punjab Minister for Law, Rana Sanaulla on Tuesday assured Punjab Assembly that no ...
No matches at Rawalpindi in India's tour to Pakistan
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has dropped Pindi Stadium Rawalpindi as one of the venues for the Pakistan and India series ...
Combinations are key to success, says Malik
LAHORE - Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik believes that good combinations are the key to success in the T20 format of the game. ...
PCB set to cut down players remuneration
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is considering slashing the monthly payments of elite cricketers as per the central contracts ...
NWFP back into the fray against Balochistan
LAHORE - NWFP bounced back in style against Balochistan taking a first innings lead on day two of the RBS Pentangular Cup final ...
MC Gojra win Jaffer Memorial Hockey
LAHORE - MC High School Gojra won the 42nd Jaffer Memorial Hockey Tournament when it beat Model High School Model Town in the ...
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