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 Sunday, November 30, 2008
Front Page
Army, PAF put on high alert after Indian threats
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani troops and Air Force have been put on high alert in the face of "escalation" by India on eastern border and the forces deployed on western frontier could also be pulled back, said the top security officials here on Saturday. In a briefing to media, senior Pakistani officials ...
Manmohan meets armed forces chiefs
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - India's prime minister Saturday met the chiefs of the country's army, navy, air force and intelligence ...
Parties pledge peace in Karachi
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Home Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Saturday issued 'shoot-on-sight' orders to police and law enforcement ...
Political leaders assure PM full support
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday took the political leadership in the country into confidence over the ...
International
Bush pledges 'full support' to India
WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush pledged "full support" to the government of India in a brief statement he gave at the ...
Muslim scientist bids farewell to U.S. after losing clearance
WASHINGTON - An American scientist of Egyptian origin who said his rights were violated when the U.S. Department of Energy ...
Indian papers denounce official response to attacks
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian newspapers on Saturday lambasted security chiefs and politicians for a panicked and selfish response to ...
India needs new leadership to fight terror: Booker winner Adiga
LONDON (AFP) - India and its financial hub Mumbai need new leadership that is better equipped to fight terrorism, Booker Prize ...
Thai police surround defiant airport protesters
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thousands of Thai police Saturday surrounded and cordoned off Bangkok's main airport after scuffles with ...
Mumbai attacks: 60 hours of chaos and carnage
MUMBAI (AFP) - For three nights, a small group of young but highly-trained militants managed to transform India's economic ...
381 dead after Nigeria clashes
LAGOS (AFP) - Hundreds of people were killed in the central Nigerian city of Jos when Christians and Muslims clashed over the ...
Nejad predicts demise of 'Zionist regime'
TEHREAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his verbal attacks on Israel on Saturday, predicting the demise of ...
Mumbai terror attacks cost city up to Rs 4 billion
MUMBAI (Agencies) - The 60-hour terror ordeal that struck Mumbai on Wednesday night caused a blow of nearly Rs 40b to the ...
Iran sentences bombers, drug traffickers
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has sentenced to death three men convicted of a mosque bombing which left 14 people dead in the southern city ...
Hussey, Ponting put Australia in control
ADELAIDE (Cricinfo) - Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting produced contrasting half-centuries on a day when Australia continued to ...
Six-wicket Mendis sets up narrow Sri Lanka win
HARARE (AFP) - Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis captured a career-best 6-29 as the tourists edged Zimbabwe by two wickets to take ...
Smith looks to Australia after crushing Bangladesh
CENTURION (AFP) - South African captain Graeme Smith looked ahead to a world Test championship showdown with Australia after his ...
US urged to encourage Indo-Pak cooperation for peace
WASHINGTON - With tensions between India and Pakistan rising in the wake of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a leading American ...
Business
ADB to provide $252m loan for power system
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Pakistan today signed a loan agreement to enhance ...
5,000 Pak butchers to get jobs in UK
LONDON - Over 5,000 butchers from Pakistan would get employment in the halal meat industry of UK through Memorandum of ...
Genuine grievances of taxpayers to be considered
ISLAMABAD - Khawar Khurshid Butt, Director General of Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) Islamabad said here on Saturday said that all ...
Oil prices recover, metals mixed
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices recovered this week after slumping to near four-year lows under 50 dollars a barrel, while commodity ...
Opec defers output move to Dec
CAIRO (AFP) - Opec is set to leave until December a decision on whether to cut oil output, despite prices plunging in the face of ...
PPDB given task to set up power projects
LAHORE - Punjab Power Development Board (PPDB) of the Irrigation and Power Department has been given the mandate to implement ...
FBR assures help to taxpayers on 'e-filing hiccups'
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has assured the large taxpayers against any punitive measures for delays caused ...
Mumbai attacks to cripple economy: PEW
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Saturday said Mumbai terror attacks are an incident bigger that the ...
Apparel sector performance needs to be enhanced: Tarin
ISLAMABAD - Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Shaukat Tarin here on Saturday assured the delegation of Pakistan Garments ...
Exploring new exports markets
The exports of Pakistan have been $ 6.7 billion during the first quarter of 2008-09, while imports are $ 14.28 billion. The trade ...
Politics
Troika meets
ISLAMABAD-President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ...
Death toll 195 as Mumbai rescue operation ends
MUMBAI (AFP) - Indian commandos Saturday killed the last remaining gunmen in Mumbai's Taj Hotel to end a devastating attack by ...
9 dead in fresh violence
KARACHI (Online) - At least nine people were killed and dozens injured in firing incidents in various parts of the metropolis on ...
US suspects LT behind attacks
WASHINGTON (Agencies) - A US counter-terrorism official said on Saturday that a militant group fighting in Kashmir, possibly ...
Troops kill 44 rebels in Afghan clashes
KABUL (AFP) - Troops killed 44 militants in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, as around a dozen police and soldiers were ...
Governor writes yet another letter to CM
LAHORE - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has asked the provincial government to take necessary steps for the extension in the ...
'N' will restore Iftikhar at any cost: Nawaz
LAHORE (NNI) - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said his party will restore deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at any ...
Jamrud college principal abducted
KHYBER AGENCY - Unidentified armed men kidnapped Principal of Elementary College, Jamrud, Khyber Agency, here on Saturday, ...
Qureshi contacts China, UAE and EU counterparts
ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday discussed the post-Mumbai attacks situation with his counterparts ...
Khan of Kalat seeks political asylum in UK
QUETTA - Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood has sought political asylum in Britain. His close aides said that Khan Kalat had given ...
Ogra proposes Rs 3-5 cut in prices
ISLAMABAD (NNI) - The Oil and Gas Ragulatory Authority (OGRA) has proposed three to five rupees cut per litre in the prices of ...
Entertainment
Stunning horse sculptures made entirely of driftwood
FROM a distance they are the embodiment of equine grace, three creatures ready to burst into a gallop across the sands. Only on ...
Gibson dead at 94
AMERICAN playwright William Gibson died on Tuesday at age 94 this week in Massachusetts, a representative of the Finnerty & ...
New clues to the cause of epilepsy
EPILEPSY, or its effects, has been known for countless generations. At times in history those with epilepsy were considered ...
Junk food raises risk of getting Alzheimer's
EATING junk food could increase your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. Scientists found that eating ...
Katie and Posh frostier than weather on day out
THEY may have been spending the Thanksgiving holiday together in New York, but relations between Katie Holmes and Victoria ...
Owen film to open Berlin festival
NEXT year's Berlin Film Festival will kick off on 5 February with political thriller The International, starring Clive Owen and ...
Islamabad
'Good resource persons would be retained'
ISLAMABAD - The performance assessment is being conducted in Pakistan Television Corporation that would ultimately decide the ...
'National Youth Policy by June'
ISLAMABAD - After receiving harsh criticism from 150 young delegates, the Minister of Youth Affairs Shahid Hussain Bhutto ...
Xmas preparations in full swing
ISLAMABAD (Online)- Preparations for Christmas have picked up momentum in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, as Christian ...
NAVTEC Board reconstituted
ISLAMABAD-The government has reconstituted the Board of National Vocational & Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC) by placing ...
No extension, escalation in CDA projects to be allowed
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Zaheeruddin Babar Awan Saturday said no contractor executing ...
Foreigners leaving Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - Foreigners are fleeing from Pakistan due to growing unrest in the region with Mumbai's mayhem adding fuel to ...
Venkatesha clinches ITF Pakistan Futures women's singles title
ISLAMABAD - Poojashree Venkatesha of India clinched the singles title of the 1st ITF Pakistan Women's Future Tennis Circuit 2008 ...
Karachi
Violence claims four lives in City
KARACHI - The ethnic violence erupted on Saturday across the metropolitan and claimed four lives while twenty-five people ...
IR expert sees Mumbai attacks big conspiracy
KARACHI - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai which claimed more than 190 lives in the port City of India seems to be a result of big ...
Translations dominate literary scenario: speakers
KARACHI - The international conference on Urdu which had started on Thursday is covering the criticism in the current changing ...
International conference on CSR
Last week I was invited to be a speaker at a two days International Conference on CSR, organised by the University of Central ...
New KU body set up to promote Chemistry
KARACHI - The National Core Group in Chemistry (NCGC) has set up Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning Chemistry Club ...
276 students awarded graduation degrees
Karachi (PPI) - Aga Khan University (AKU) Saturday held its 21st Convocation ceremony marking the graduation of 276 students in ...
Lahore
Cattle-free City by Dec 15: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said Lahore will again be made a city of gardens and its ...
Halaku Khan was Taliban of his time, says Governor
LAHORE -Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has said that all the societies are developed on the basis of education and no country can ...
Rana Sanaullah presents Rs10 million cheque to Bar
LAHORE - Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has said the government in Punjab is working in consultation with the ...
Govt determined to banish illiteracy: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said practical steps are also being taken for the elimination of illiteracy and ...
Pervaiz Elahi criticises govt for abolishing NSC
LAHORE - Former Chief Minister Punjab and PML-Q senior leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi has criticised the government decisions what he ...
LG Secy, DCO directed to implement budget
LAHORE - Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi of the Lahore High Court while validating the budget approved by Pakpattan and ...
Cricket in South Asia at stake, says Tanvir
LAHORE - Pakistani cricketers Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir fear the Mumbai terror attack may end up making the entire South ...
Pakistan blind cricket team rout Sri Lanka in second ODI
LAHORE - The Pakistan blind cricket team won its second match of the five-match series against Sri Lanka by eight wickets here at ...
PCB announces regional teams trials schedule
LAHORE - The PCB has announced the trial schedule for selection of Regional teams for the forthcoming Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ...
Aisam wins doubles crown in Japan
LAHORE - Pakistan's tennis ace Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi finished the year on a winning note by claiming a doubles title in Japan. ...
KPT out of title race, draw 1-1 with KESC
LAHORE - Karachi Port Trust (KPT) failed to gain advantage from early goal and drew 1-1 with Karachi Electric Supply Corporation ...
AFC Chief assures Vision Asia plan for PFF
LAHORE - Asian Football Confederation President Mohammed bin Hamman hailed the working of the Pakistan Football Federation Chief ...
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