Thursday, February 09, 2012
- Nato supplies continue through Pak airspace: Munter
- Contempt appeal: SC asks Aitzaz to complete arguments on Friday
- Khar says drone attacks multiply militants
- Tax collection registers increase of 26%: Hafeez Shaikh
- 77% of Pakistanis marry within family: Gallup poll
- US drone kills Qaeda leader in Pak: officials
- Blast rocks ASF headquarters in Karachi
- Three including two women killed for honour in Faisalabad
- Obama briefed by national security team on US-Pakistan cooperation
- Awan contempt case: Hearing adjourns till Feb 20
The Nation in print for Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Front Page
President's 'associate' out to ruin PSO
ISLAMABAD While President Asif Ali Zardari is already pushed to face the pending court cases against him, dubious characters are at large to exploit relations with him as well as key cabinet members to ruin the state entities. According to well-placed sources, a mega scam in the Pakistan State Oil ...
21 militants killed in South Waziristan
ISLAMABAD The security forces have secured Talibans stronghold Sararogha in South Waziristan Agency after a fierce fight in ...
17 die, 42 hurt in train collision
KARACHI At least 17 people were killed and over 42 others injured when a Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express rammed into a goods ...
International
UNGA draft urges action on Gaza war crimes
UNITED NATIONS - Arab UN delegates agreed Monday to ask the United Nations General Assembly to set a three-month deadline for ...
US 'hiding a dagger behind its back: Iran
TEHRAN (AFP) - Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at the United States on Tuesday, saying Tehran will reject ...
Hillary offers US aid to help boost ties with Muslim world
MARRAKESH, Morocco, (Reuters/AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim ...
Prosecute responsible persons, HRW urges India
NEW YORK - A prominent international human rights group Tuesday described as a severe blot on Indias legal system and democracy ...
NKorea has made more weapons-grade plutonium
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and ...
Afghans exasperated by five more years of Karzai
KABUL (Reuters/AFP) - War-weary Afghans, who have endured years of violence and daily hardships imposed by corrupt government ...
Top Indian judges disclose assets
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indias Supreme Court judges have voluntarily disclosed their assets, their website showed Tuesday, in a bid to ...
Nuclear Iran 'not acceptable: Merkel
WASHINGTON (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday, saying it would be ...
Bosnia launches atlas of war crimes on Internet
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnias war crimes researchers presented on Tuesday an 'atlas of war crimes from the countrys 1992-95 war, ...
Afridi, Akmal maul NZ in first one-dayer
ABU DHABI (AFP) Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Khalid Latif hit half-centuries to help Pakistan reach 287-9 in the first ...
Schumacher, Button to vie in Race of Champions
BEIJING (AFP) Beijings Birds Nest stadium has been transformed into a motor racing track, with some of the worlds top drivers ...
Bangladesh win battle of minnows in style
CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh) (AFP) Bangladesh won their five-match one-day international cricket series against fellow minnows ...
Crunch time for Reds as Arsenal look for knockout victory
PARIS (AFP) Five-times kings of Europe Liverpool could be facing an early Champions League exit if they fail to put massive ...
Business
Mills creating hurdles in rice paddy procurement
KARACHI - The rice mills owners in country are creating obstacles in smooth procurement of paddy from growers as they have ...
Malaysia keen to import rice, livestock from Pak
KUALA LUMPUR (APP) - Malaysia has shown keen interest to import rice and cows from Pakistan. This understanding was reached ...
Stock market recovers some losses, gains 67 points
KARACHI - The oversold market invited some technical buying at the Karachi bourse on Tuesday, but chief benchmark 100-index never ...
Cotton bales arrival in ginning factories up 40pc
MULTAN - The arrival of cotton bales in ginning factories has observed 40.06 per cent increase in the country, disclosed a ...
Plan to import 0.7m ton sugar
ISLAMABAD - Peoples miseries regarding the price of sugar and its availability are likely to continue in the coming months, as ...
LPG price increased by Rs9 per kg
KARACHI - LPG marketing companies have increased price of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs 9 per kilogram Rs 77 in the country ...
RTO announces new facilitation services for CVT taxpayers
KARACHI - In a bid to broaden the tax base regime as directed by the FBR, the Regional Tax Office Karachi is all set to improve ...
Pak-Lanka FTA revision urged
KARACHI - Pakistan-Sri Lanka FTA needs revision to enhance export quota of Pakistan agro-based products. A seminar will be held ...
IMF sells 200 tonnes gold to India at glittering price
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund kicked off the sale of more than 400 tonnes of gold with a wallop, saying ...
Sincere efforts required to boost trade ties with Czech Republic
LAHORE- The promotion of bilateral trade between Pakistan and Czech Republic depends on sincere efforts as there is a great scope ...
Politics
Karzai offers olive branch to Taliban 'brothers'
KABUL (AFP) - President Hamid Karzai handed an olive branch Tuesday to his Taliban brothers behind a raging insurgency in ...
UK lauds govt resolve to fight against terrorism
ISLAMABAD Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, British Foreign Secretarys special representative, spoke highly of Pakistan Army, which is ...
PM phones Nawaz, Ch Nisar
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday telephoned PML (N) Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and ...
Zardari may seek judicial relief
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari and his cronies are likely to seek judicial relief after the infamous National ...
COAS visits blast injured
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Tuesday visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) ...
Israeli settlers seize Arab house in East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Dozens of Israeli settlers took over a house in mostly Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday armed with a court order ...
Most Pakistanis back war against militants: Poll
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A majority of Pakistanis support military action against militants although more people blame the United ...
Fed Cabinet meets today
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Federal Cabinet will meet here today (Wednesday) to discuss host of issues. According to a private TV ...
Man kills 4 children over poverty
TOBA TEK SINGH (APP) - In a gory act of manslaughter, a man stabbed to death his four children, including two sons and two ...
No effective govt in Islamabad: Delhi
INDIAN External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday rejected allegations that India is fomenting trouble in Balochistan, ...
Gunmen kill inspector
SWAT (APP) - Unknown gunmen killed an inspector of the Elite Force here at Mata Tehsil on Tuesday, police said. Inspector Zota ...
Iran hangs Jundullah activist
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has hanged a convicted member of the Sunni group Jundullah, which claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide ...
Pakistan, India spar over Kashmir at UN
UNITED NATIONS - Rejecting an Indian claim that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, Pakistan on Monday called for ...
202 Blackwater personnel arrive
KARACHI The foreigners affiliated with the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, whose security company Blackwater ...
MNAs grill Musharraf for November 3 acts
ISLAMABAD Terming November 3, 2007 imposition of emergency by former Army Chief Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf as Black Day, MNAs ...
Black Day observed across the board
IMRAN MUKHTAR, AZAM TANOLI and Shahid rao ISLAMABAD The legal fraternity, political parties, parliamentarians, journalists and ...
IDPs movement without surveillance poses threat
ISLAMABAD Arrival of displaced persons from South Waziristan Agency to different cities without any surveillance and tracking ...
Court to decide NRO's fate, says Gilani
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said that government had decided to let the court settle the matter of ...
Afridi helps sink Kiwis
ABU DHABI (AFP) Shahid Afridi hit an aggressive half-century and took two wickets to cap Pakistans 138-run win over New Zealand ...
SC asks Dogar to vacate official residence
ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court has issued notice to Justice (Retd) Abdul Hameed Dogar to vacate his official residence by November ...
We're laying a trap: Taliban
A Taliban spokesman denied Tuesday that the military has won a series of battlefield victories in its operation in South ...
Aid workers worry over civilians trapped in war zone
ISLAMABAD (AFP) Rising numbers of civilians are pouring out of war zone to flee battles between soldiers and Taliban militants ...
Report of UN panel 'may be delayed'
UNITED NATIONS - The UN commission investigating the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto may not be able ...
Entertainment
Gisele Bundchen passes pilot's exam
GISELE Bundchen is one step closer to becoming a pilot The supermodel whos expecting her first child with husband Tom Brady has ...
Berlin holds MTV awards, 20 years after fall of Wall
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin hosts the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday, where German pop rock band Tokio Hotel will perform ...
Stone Roses singer Brown arrested
FORMER Stone Roses singer Ian Brown has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his wife at a house in West Kensington, ...
World's first Arabic speaking robot
Al-ain (United Arab Emirates) (AFP) - A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the worlds first Arabic-speaking robot ...
Internet monster devouring us
FAST-forward 40 years. It is November 2049 and privacy is a distant memory. Every telephone call you make, every text you send ...
TV makes toddlers aggressive
The more television that a three-year-old watches, the more likely he or she is to behave aggressively, according to an American ...
Islamabad
CDA backs off from relocation of steel furnaces
ISLAMABAD The issue of industrial pollution in Sector I-9 remains unresolved, as Capital Development Authority (CDA) has backed ...
Seven dacoits arrested; valuables recovered
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad CIA police have arrested seven dacoits operating at inter-provincial level including the gang leader ...
Missing persons' relatives stage protest camp outside Supreme Court
ISLAMABAD For the early recovery of their dear ones, relatives of missing persons staged a protest camp outside the Supreme ...
Oxford Book Fair 2009 continues
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Like other cities of the country, 'Oxford Book Fair 2009 with its amazing collection, continues to attract ...
NUML closed down till tomorrow
ISLAMABAD - The National University of Modern Languages (NUML) has been closed down again till tomorrow (Thursday) 5 due to ...
Museum announces new winter timings
ISLAMABAD (APP) National Heritage Museum, the first museum of ethnology, here at Lok Virsa has announced its winter timings. The ...
Quaid Trophy: Asad wrecks KRL on opening day
ISLAMABAD Khan Research Laboratories crawled to 198 runs all out against Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited here at their home ...
Karachi
Zardari won't have to appear before courts
KARACHI - Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that if the cases against President Asif Ali Zardari reopened he could ...
MQM not to hurt relations with PPP
KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday said that its position on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) would ...
Sindh govt directed to ensure anti-terror plan
KARACHI - In the wake of recent wave of terrorism and bomb explosions in important cities of the country, Sindh government had ...
'Country needs strong leadership to fight crises'
KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh National Front (SNF) Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has said the entire country was facing war-like conditions ...
Private schools against new system
KARACHI - The administration of private schools has rejected the idea of imparting education online due to the recent wave of ...
Pak-US varsities join hands to help poor
KARACHI - The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) signed a memorandum of ...
PBSA awaits financial lifeline from PSB
KARACHI The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association has completed all the formalities except those related to finances in its ...
Lahore
No wedding party after 10pm
LAHORE-The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution seeking ban on holding marriage functions and related ceremonies after ...
War on terror Pakistans own, says Shahbaz
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that fight against terrorism is Pakistans own war and its victory is ...
Remove reservations on KLA, Nawaz asks US
LAHORE - The PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday asked the US consulate coordinator for economic development and former vice ...
CCPO directed to file reply on road closure
LAHORE - Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khawaja Muhammad Sharif Tuesday sought reply from the capital city police officer (CCPO) ...
Security devices go like hot cakes
LAHORE - With the alarming surge in terror attacks, sale of security devices throughout the country has broken all previous ...
Zardari not beneficiary of NRO, says Raja
LAHORE - Conforming the retreat PPP made in the National Assembly on NRO, PPP Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad also told the ...
AFC cancels U-19 qualifiers in Pakistan
LAHORE The uncertain security situation in the country has yet caused the cancellation of yet another international sporting ...
Sohail the star as Pakistan beat France
LAHORE Pakistan downed hosts France in the World Cup qualifying round match at Lillie, France on Tuesday. After having beaten ...
Goals galore as PEL, Army earn victories
LAHORE Army once again confirmed themselves as top notch football team when they posted 2-0 impressive win over PMC Athletico ...
Guard Rice slump to crushing defeat on Hamza's day
LAHORE Guard Rice crashed to a humiliating 14-0 defeat against Pony Express on the opening day of the Seasons Canola Cup ...
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