Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 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
The Nation in print for Sunday, November 08, 2009
Front Page
Grenade attacks rock Quetta
QUETTA - At least 17 people including two teachers, a student and paramilitary personnel were injured in two separate hand grenade attacks that rocked the provincial capital on Saturday. In the first incident, as per police sources unidentified motorbikers hurled a hand grenade at Government Girls ...
NWFP CM Sectt 'teaches' rules to US diplomat
ISLAMABAD - Setting aside diplomatic rules and regulations, Principal Officer of US Consulate Peshawar, E. Candace Putnam, is ...
Taliban resistance 'dying down'
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - The military said Saturday it had killed 12 Taliban militants as government troops pressed a major ...
International
Corruption costs poorer states up to $40b a year
DOHA (Reuters) - Corruption costs developing nations $20 to $40 billion each year, while emerging markets and financial centres ...
Hamas offers olive branch to Fatah
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise ...
Iran set to reject N-plan
TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iran has decided to turn down proposals from the major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel, a leading ...
US army base plagued by suicides
WASHINGTON - Suicides are a serious problem at the huge Texas military base in Fort Hood, Texas, where an Arab-American officer ...
Chinese PM reaches out to Muslims
CAIRO (AFP/Reuters) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the worlds Muslims about his countrys goodwill towards ...
Impossible: Hasan's grandfather
AL-BIREH, West Bank, (Reuters) - The grandfather of a US Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 ...
UNSC urges Afghan govt to address challenges effectively
UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council on Friday called on the new Afghan government to effectively address the challenges ...
'UN not withdrawing from Afghanistan'
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed, the other day, that the world body is not withdrawing from ...
Vettori delighted over New Zealand's turnaround
ABU DHABI (AFP) New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori believes his teams conscious effort to improve in key areas helped them beat ...
Abu Dhabi offers to host all PCB matches for three years
ABU DHABI The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been offered to make its home base in Abu Dhabi for three years, this was ...
Federer faces school friend Chiudinelli
BASEL (Switzerland) (AFP) Roger Federer puts an 18-match win streak at his home Swiss Indoors tournament on the line Saturday ...
Beckham raring to play Champions League
LONDON (AFP) England midfielder David Beckham is relishing the chance to play Champions League football again once he returns to ...
Ancelotti confident ahead of United acid test
LONDON (AFP) Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti knows his first Premier League clash with Manchester United will provide the acid ...
Business
6th decennial Agri Census to start from December
LAHORE - The Pakistan government has decided to carry out sixth decennial Agricultural Census 2010 across the country, including ...
FBR sales tax system to remain suspended till Jan 1
KARACHI - Member Domestic Operations (South), Federal Board of Revenue, on the demand raised by the Chairman Businessmen Group ...
Gold shines as records smashed
LONDON (AFP) - Gold prices struck a series of record highs this week, eventually spiking above 1,100 dollars for the first time, ...
2,500MW to be added in national grid soon: Minister
PATTOKI (APP)- Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said that 2500 MW from Independent Power Plants ...
RCCI for relief to flour industry
RAWALPINDI (APP) - Paresident Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Kashif Shabbir on Saturday suggested that flour ...
PTA to make SIM enquiry 668 free
KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to make the SIM information enquiry 668 free in order to ...
Housing shortage in Pakistan blowing out of proportion
KARACHI - The housing shortage in Pakistan is blowing out of proportion and to address this serious problem, government, banks ...
Palm oil imports decline by 33pc in September
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Imports of palm oil into the country decreased by 32.99 percent during the first three months of current ...
Shipping activity at Port Qasim
KARACHI (APP) - Shipping activity remained active at Port Qasim where four ships scheduled to load/offload Containers, 40,074 ...
Pak, Cuba to cement economic cooperation
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Deputy Speaker, Faisal Karim Kundi, Saturday said that Pakistan and Cuba enjoyed cordial relations and both ...
Politics
NRO issue 'buried forever': PM
PATTOKI - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said the issue of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) had been ...
ATC seeks proof against Mumbai suspects
RAWALPINDI - Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No. 1 Saturday directed the prosecution to provide the confessional statement ...
Sherpao for Pak-Afghan grand jirga
ISLAMABAD - President Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) and former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has expressed the ...
'Spy' becomes target-killing victim
QUETTA - Some unknown armed men gunned down a person, suspected to be working for the agencies, in District Awaran on ...
Pervaiz Ashraf's arrest warrant issued again
RAWALPINDI - A local court Saturday, once again, issued non-bailable arrest warrants of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja ...
10 militants arrested in Kurram
KURRAM AGENCY - The security forces arrested 10 suspected militants during a search operation in Lower Kurram Agency on ...
Nato airstrike kills 7 Afghan securitymen
KABUL (AFP) - Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a Nato airstrike in remote western Afghanistan, the ...
'New' Osama videotape released
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al-Qaeda released a new videotape from its leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, said IntelCenter, a US-based ...
ML root cause of backwardness: Nawaz
CHILAS (Online) - PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that repeated subversion of Constitution, imposition of martial law, ...
IMF waiver sought on key targets
ISLAMABAD - Falling short of key economic targets for the first quarter (June-August 2009) of the current financial year, ...
NA debate on law and order
ISLAMABAD - The discussion on current law and order situation in the country was initiated in the National Assembly on Saturday ...
Aitzaz 'rejects' AG slot
ISLAMABAD - At a time when National Reconciliation Ordinance is being debated in the country, former President Supreme Court Bar ...
Anti-mafia social activist gunned down
KARACHI - Convener of Gutter Baghicha Bachao Tehreek and Chairman Karachi NGOs Alliance Nisar Baloch was killed and two ...
PIA suffered Rs76.54 billion loss, NA told
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Assembly was informed Saturday that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) suffered Rs76.54 billion ...
US team to meet Owais, Hoti on 10th
ISLAMABAD A six-member US delegation is going to hold a meeting with NWFP Governor Owais Ghani and Chief Minister Ameer Haider ...
Zardari reiterates commitment to CoD
ISLAMABAD - In a damage control move, following the imminent debacle on NRO, President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday had a ...
3 troops die inHangu attack
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Taliban militants killed three soldiers in an assault on a checkpost in the northwest, officials said ...
Entertainment
Jackson vexed over not buried next to Marilyn Monroe
MICHAEL Jackson is annoyed he was not buried alongside Marilyn Monroe, according to a medium. Derek Acorah claims he was ...
Katie gets whopping sum for reality show
BRITISH glamour model Katie Price has been offered upto half a million pounds to appear in the reality show Im A Celebrity...Get ...
Pamela's sons want to live in trailer
FORMER 'Baywatch star Pamela Andersons children are so fond of living in her trailer that they dont want to move back to their ...
Comic books are good for children's learning
PARENTS should not look down on comics as they are just as good for children as reading books, a new study claims. Researchers ...
Daredevil mother becomes record-breaking base-jumper
ONCE upon a time Heather Swan was a so-called 'safe corporate mother. Then the boardroom executive reached her 40s - and decided ...
What kids drink at five could affect weight at 15
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents may be setting their daughters up for weight problems simply by allowing them to drink two or more ...
Islamabad
DHRP decides to expand protest camp
ISLAMABAD - The Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP) has decided to contact all missing persons relatives across the country ...
PTV union demands ZTBL employees' reinstatement
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Television (PTV) Workers Association held a protest demonstration to express solidarity with the workers of ...
Kh Asif urged to tender apology
ISLAMABAD - All chapters of Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal or Women Action Forum (WAF) have expressed outrage at PML-N MNA Khawaja Asifs ...
Seven outlaws held
ISLAMABAD - The city police arrested seven accused involved in selling of liquor and weapons and recovered liquor and weapons ...
CDA holds mock rescue demonstration
ISLAMABAD - The Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management personnel of CDA conducted a fire drill and mock rescue exercise ...
CDA awards NOC to FGEHF
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has awarded No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the Federal Government ...
Karachi
Anti-malaria drive to continue till '12
KARACHI - Sindh government has extended the period of the Provincial Malaria Control Programme for the next three years till 2012 ...
KESC cuts 8,968 illegal connections
KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), during its recovery drive 'Name and Shame campaign, disconnected 8,968 ...
Civil Defence faces funds dearth
KARACHI - Despite clear-cut directives by the federal government, the Sindh government had not yet started the activities of ...
JSQM takes out rally for Sindh rights
KARACHI - The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Muhaz (JSQM), a nationalist party of Sindh, on Saturday took out a rally for creation of 'Sindhu ...
Money wont buy you love
The recent fiasco over the Kerry - Lugar Bill and the aftermath that followed, had forced the American government to rush over ...
Germs mingle most on palms, feet, forearms
KARACHI (PPI) - A new atlas of bacterial life on and within the human body has uncovered the fact that your palms, feet and ...
India and China qualify for women's hockey WC
Karachi Former world hockey power India and the fast emerging Peoples Republic of China have qualified for the womens world ...
Lahore
Only kins of judges getting relief: Gondal
LAHORE - Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) Vice President Munawar Iqbal Gondal has said that sons and relatives of judges ...
Pak-Iran ties to get boost, says Shahbaz
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that Iran is a brotherly country of Pakistan and their bonds ...
PCB governing board approves Rs 1.45b budget
LAHORE The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) governing board has approved a budget of Rs 1.45 billion for the year 2009-10 after a ...
Pak-India Challenge Dangal in Dec
LAHORE A Challenge Cup Dangal featuring Pakistan and Indian wrestlers will be held here next month with top wrestlers of the ...
Bilal, Tahir win Pairs Event
LAHORE - The 13th Balijee Bridge Championship moves into the third round at the Lahore Gymkhana bridge tables and while the team ...
PIA outpace PAF 4-2; Navy keep hopes alive
LAHORE PIA put up impressive display in first session to outpace PAF 4-2 in the Pakistan Premier Football League thriller at ...
Steps taken for improvement of hospitals' working
LAHORE - The Punjab Government is setting up an autonomous Health Commission to provide better healthcare facilities to the ...
Nation to pay homage to Poet of the East
LAHORE - The 132nd birthday of national poet Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal will be celebrated tomorrow (Monday) in a befitting ...
Indifference to cultural heritage matter of concern
LAHORE - Lahore is blessed with rich cultural and historical background against which name of the City echoes around the world. A ...
Measures outlined to avoid fog-related mishaps
LAHORE - With the dawn of the foggy season, the National Highways and Motorway Police have started adopting extra-ordinary ...
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