Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
- 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
The Nation in print for Sunday, October 26, 2008
Front Page
25pc inflation halts growth
KARACHI-The Stock market, agriculture and other sectors will be brought in tax net very soon. The positive outcome of negotiations with IMF and other international donors will come within the period of one month. These views expressed by Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance and Economic Affairs ...
5 dead, 15 hurt in Swat
SWAT - At least five persons were killed and fifteen others injured in separate incidents in the restive Swat District while ...
Commissionerate system restored
LAHORE - After a long wrangling between the provincial government and the Governor Punjab, at last Salman Taseer has signed the ...
No alternative to withdrawal of subsidies: Zardari
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday asked Ministry of Water and Power to gear up its efforts to overcome the severe ...
International
Briton, South African killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) - A Briton and a South African working for international courier company DHL where killed along with an Afghan guard ...
McCain in New Mexico, vows to fight to the last
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AFP) - John McCain accused Barack Obama of over-confidence here Saturday and vowed to fight for ever ...
1,000 Indian students held
PATNA, India (AFP) - Police arrested more than 1,000 students in India's eastern Bihar state Saturday after their protests over ...
Motive for aid worker's murder unknown
KABUL (AFP) - The motive for the murder last week of a British South African in Kabul is still unclear, her organisation said ...
60 dead in Yemen storms
SANAA (AFP) - Aid operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 58 people and six more died ...
Military pact traps Baghdad between US demands and Iranian fears
BAGHDAD (AFP) - As the United States and Iraq approach a deal on the future US military presence in the country, Baghdad is ...
Palin's fashion expenses defended
WASHINGTON - US Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign defended vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's ...
US sanctions against Russian arms exporter meet objection
WASHINGTON - The United States has slapped financial sanctions on Russia's state arms exporter for its dealings with Iran, a move ...
Obama widens lead over McCain nationally and in battlegrounds
NEW YORK - US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama widened his lead over Republican rival John McCain in most ...
US pledges $320m in fight against bird flu
CAIRO (AFP) - The United States will provide an additional 320 million dollars to aid in the fight against bird flu, a US ...
Rain cancels first day of Bangladesh-NZealand Test
DHAKA (AFP) - Persistent rain washed out the opening day's play of the second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand here on ...
Business
UN officials call for protecting world's poorest amid financial crisis
UNITED NATIONS - The poorest of the world's poor deserve immediate support to help them endure the global financial crisis, ...
China calls for more regulation of global financial system
BEIJING (AFP) - China's Premier Wen Jiabao called Saturday for more regulation of the world's financial system, and for developed ...
SCCI discusses energy tariff, gas loadshedding
SIALKOT - A joint meeting of major trade bodies including Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) was held here on Friday ...
Crisis isn't here yet but Nigeria's prepared
LAGOS (AFP) - The credit crunch has not really hit Nigeria yet but the West African oil producer, already weakened by a fall in ...
Gulf policymakers mull impact of world financial crisis
RIYADH (AFP) - Finance and economy ministers and central bankers from oil-rich Arab states in the Gulf met for emergency talks on ...
Canada posts $1.7 billion budget deficit in August
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada registered a deficit of 1.7 billion dollars (1.3 billion US) in August but maintained a narrow surplus ...
Index may fall by 15pc to 7,500 level after floor lifting
LAHORE - Despite announcement of market support fund, the equity market continued to remain dull all over the outgoing week with ...
APTMA lauds 40pc relief on power bills
LAHORE - Chairman, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Muhammad Iqbal Ebrahim has lauded the decision of Special ...
SBP issues licence to Kashf Bank
KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has issued licence to Kashf Microfinance Bank Limited which will commence its operations ...
Opec to meet regularly for further cuts in oil
VIENNA (AFP) - OPEC could meet regularly over the coming months to announce further cuts in oil output as a worldwide recession ...
Politics
Japan, Germany assure support
BEIJING (Agencies) - Japanese Prime Minister Aso Taro and German Chancellor Dr Angela Markel on Saturday assured Pakistan their ...
All PML factions should unite, says Nizami
LAHORE - Editor-in-Chief TheNation and Chairman Nazaria Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami has said that Pakistan was created to ...
'Q' dissidents denied share in cabinet
ISLAMABAD - The hopes of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) forward blocs in the Senate and National Assembly have dashed as PPP's ...
WB chief urges support
WASHINGTON (APP) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the next US administration emerging from November 4 election ...
GST on power bills may go
LAHORE - The committee constituted on the directives of the Prime Minister to review the issue of increased power tariff, is ...
World leaders want financial reforms
BEIJING (AFP) - European and Asian leaders promised major reforms to the global financial system as they wrapped up a two-day ...
CBMs no substitute for steps to peacefully settle disputes: Pak delegate
UNITED NATIONS - With obviously the lack of real progress in the ongoing Indo-Pakistan dialogue process in mind, a Pakistani ...
Power consumers to suffer another shock
LAHORE - The power distribution companies will recharge the 40 per cent amount of September electricity bills, temporarily ...
China offers to build hydropower projects
ISLAMABAD - The Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that the government would facilitate and ...
MQM demands six ministries for joining coalition
KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the coalition partner of PPP in Sindh, has demanded six federal ministries to join PPP ...
History goes amiss at PA
LAHORE - Political rivalry is part of democracy, but when it comes to keeping the record, even the staunchest of adversaries are ...
Entertainment
Skin creams can make skin drier
MANY people have noticed that as soon as you start using a skin cream, you have to continue with it; if you stop lubricating, ...
2 relatives of Oscar-winning Hudson reported slain
THE mother and brother of the Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death inside her mother's house on ...
A New York apartment to turn into Suri's playroom
TOM Cruise and Katie Holmes bought a New York apartment and turned it into a playroom for their daughter Suri. The Hollywood ...
Tea in hand makes us friendlier towards strangers
IF you want to make a good first impression on someone, give them a steaming cup of tea or hot chocolate. Scientists have ...
Hope for common cold treatment
THE characteristic effects of a cold are not brought about directly by the virus but by its ability to turn the body's own ...
Beijing angry as relics go under hammer
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese cultural officials are voicing anger over the planned sale of two national treasures in a high-profile ...
Islamabad
5-year school nutrition project's fate hangs in balance
ISLAMABAD- The Planning Commission has deferred a five-year "School Nutrition Programme for Government Girls Primary Schools" ...
PKPA to have own building after 11 years
RAWALPINDI- Pakistan Kidney Patients Association (PKPA), a non-profit organisation will formally lay the foundation stone of its ...
NDMA reviews progress of risk reduction
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) held a consultative meeting to review different matters relating ...
Bureaucratic tactics affect gemstone industry
ISLAMABAD - The business community related to gemstone industry is facing unprecedented downfall, thanks to the moneymakers in ...
Diwali to be celebrated on 28th
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Hindu community living across the country would celebrate Diwali festival on October 28 with great enthusiasm. ...
'Pakistan values its ties with Libya'
ISLAMABAD (Online)- The Libyan Ambassador Ibrahim Al-Abid Mukhtar called on the Advisor to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs ...
Pakistan claim handball gold medal at Bali Games, Ali wins silver, Taseen bronze wrestling
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan claimed second gold medal in the 1st Asian Beach Games 2008, when green shirts overcame heavyweight Kuwait ...
Kazak Syrym wins ITF Futures men's singles title
ISLAMABAD - Unseeded Abdukhalikov Syrym of Kazakhstan dispatched his opponent Alekseeko Vadim of Ukraine 2-0 in the final of the ...
Karachi
40pc deferment on electricity bills only for October
KARACHI - The government issued the notification on Saturday regarding 60 per cent of bill payment. It is noteworthy that only ...
Attempt on Zardari's life case hearing adjourned
KARACHI (PPI) - Additional District & Sessions Judge South Karachi, Irfan Hussain Siddiqui, on Saturday adjourned hearing of ...
Anita Ghulam Teachers' Award launching
KARACHI - The Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Female Education Trust (FET) and Oxford University Press (OUP) have decided that ...
Two million youth in Karachi drug addicts
Karachi (PPI) - In Karachi some 2million youth and children are the risk of drug addiction, as prevalence of drug addiction in ...
Kamal warns against digging up of new roads
KARACHI - City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that no utility services provider including KESC will be allowed to cut newly ...
KESC saga"the final episode
In my last article I had written about the meeting at the SITE Association office to discuss the tariff increase in KESC. As ...
Saeed saves the day for Federal Area
KARACHI - Usman Saeed saved Federal Area from total collapse with a timely unbeaten 103 after the visitors were sent into take ...
DG Rangers National Ranking Junior Squash begins
KARACHI - Qualifying rounds of the boys event of second DG Rangers Sindh, National Ranking Junior (Under 19) Squash Championships ...
Lahore
Croweaters showcases last exhibition
LAHORE - Artists hub for the last one decade the Croweaters Gallery will close for good on October 31st when its last exhibition ...
Dozing cop at CPO shoots himself dead
LAHORE - A young and newly married policeman, deployed at the main entrance of the Central Police Office, died in hospital in ...
S Asia peace sans Kashmir solution impossible: Qazi
LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that peace in South Asia cannot be maintained without giving Kashmiris ...
Re-appointed judges urged to act boldly
LAHORE - President Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on behalf of the lawyers and public has urged ...
Committee formed for increasing young doctors' stipend
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that government will take all possible steps for resolution of ...
No rift in 'Q': Pervaiz
LAHORE - Former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that his party (PML-Q) will continue to raise its voice for ...
Intikhab steps into his coaching shoes again
LAHORE - Former Test captain Intikhab Alam has been named coach of the Pakistan for next month's One-day series against West ...
Best bowler award for Tanvir in Twenty20 cricket
LAHORE - Pakistan pacer Sohail Tanvir, representing Rajhastan Royals in the Indian Premier League, was declared the best bowler ...
KESC 3-2 win over, Steel, Afghans draw NBP 2-2
LAHORE - KESC earned their seventh win in Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008 when they staged recovery to beat Afghan FC 3-2 in ...
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