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 Saturday, October 04, 2008
Front Page
Next US leader must revamp Pak policy
WASHINGTON - As Pakistan intensifies action against extremists, an experts report says the next US President must revamp policy toward its ally, mixing deft diplomacy, security support and economic aid to help the country defeat a grave threat from extremists. Pakistan Policy Working Group, a ...
Pakistan made a 'scapegoat' in terror war
NEW YORK - Reaffirming Pakistan's commitment to fight extremists, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said his country was ...
Bush frees aid for Pakistan
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W Bush on Friday freed up to 8.3 million dollars in emergency aid to help Afghanistan, ...
International
- pulls out of race for IAEA board
VIENNA (AFP) - Syria has backed down in the race for a seat on the UN atomic watchdog's board, leaving Afghanistan to take up the ...
Del Potro upsets defending champion Ferrer in Japan
TOKYO (AFP) - Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro on Friday denied David Ferrer a chance to defend his Japan Open title, beating ...
Venus sets up Safina quarter-final clash
STUTTGART (AFP) - Wimbledon champion Venus Williams said Thursday she is relishing her first meeting with world number three ...
80 civilians killed in Somalia fighting: UN
GENEVA (AFP) - At least 80 civilians were killed and more than 100 others injured in violence in the Somalian capital Mogadishu ...
Syria says N-coop not at security expense
VIENNA (AFP) - Syria said Friday it would cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog over its suspected nuclear programme but stressed ...
India to seal big-ticket military deals
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India said on Friday it was gearing up to seal military contracts worth billions of dollars including a massive ...
Al-Sadr steps up call to evict US forces
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a fresh call on Friday for US troops to withdraw from Iraq saying ...
Presidency approves provincial poll law
SULAIMANIYAH (AFP) - Iraq's three-member presidency council on Friday approved a long-delayed provincial election law, clearing ...
US group to set up office in Iran
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has granted rare approval to a US-based group to establish an office in Iran, the State ...
Canadian PM revokes support for Iraq war
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday suddenly reversed his once fierce support for the US invasion ...
Israel to install radar antennae near nuclear site
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel will install two massive radar antennae near the Dimona nuclear plant to bolster its defence measures ...
Business
PM appeals growers for more wheat production
MULTAN (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday appealed growers to enhance per acre wheat production from coming ...
Exporters ask State Bank for pre-shipment refinance facility
KARACHI- The small and medium rice exporters have demanded of the State Bank of Pakistan to ask commercial banks for providing ...
High inflation dampens economic activities on Eid
ISLAMABAD (APP) - President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Muhammad Ijaz Abbasi has said high inflation has depleted ...
Unpredicted Eidul Fitr caused high losses to traders
KARACHI- Chairman Karachi Traders' Action Committee Siddiq Memon mentioned that due to the miscommunication and unexpected ...
OGDCL for shares buy-back
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) Board has authorized to invite Expression of Interest ...
Textile package soon: Gilani
MULTAN (PPI) - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has assured that Textile package would soon be introduced to take the ...
Euro fights back vs dollar, yen
LONDON (AFP) - The euro rallied on Friday, pulling clear of 13-month lows against the dollar, as the market ...
Pakistan safe place to do business, HC to Malaysia
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan's High Commissioner in Malaysia, Lt Gen (Retd) Tahir Mahmud Qazi Friday urged Malaysians to invest in ...
ECB renews one-day loans of $50b
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central Bank renewed on Friday loans of 50 billion dollars (36 billion euros), in what has become ...
Eurozone 2nd largest economy of France slips into recession
PARIS (AFP) - French leaders scrambled to reassure consumers, voters and investors Friday, after the official statistics agency ...
Politics
Pakistan, Iran threat to world: US VP hopefuls
NEW YORK - Pakistan already has deployed nuclear weapons and can hit Israel and the Mediterranean, US Democratic Party nominee ...
US House approves $700b 'necessary evil'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a revised 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, ...
UN, Britain to evacuate kids from Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The United Nations and Britain Thursday ordered the children of international staff to be evacuated from ...
Qari Zia Group suspected in Wali Bagh suicide attack
ISLAMABAD/CHARSADDA - The joint investigation team set up to probe into the Wali Bagh suicide bombing is working on two important ...
Country at war: Malik
ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has said that Pakistan's war against extremists will go ...
Baitullah is dead: Hoti
MARDAN - Chief Minister of NWFP Amir Hadier Khan Hoti said that banned Tehrik-i-Taliban leader Baitullah ...
Dr Aafia shifted to psychological facility
NEW YORK - Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuro-scientist, who is under US detention, has been removed to a facility in Texas for ...
US Senate approves Indian N-deal
WASHINGTON - The US Congress gave final approval to a breakthrough agreement permitting nuclear trade with India for the first ...
UK restores visa service in Karachi
LAHORE - Following a review of security at the UK Visa Application Centres (VACs), the British High Commission has announced that ...
Nusrat Bhutto in critical condition
LAHORE - The health of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, mother of Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed), is stated to be critical, as she is in a state of ...
UN working on setting up body to probe Benazir's murder: FM Qureshi
NEW YORK - The United Nations is working on Pakistan's request for an independent investigation into the assassination of former ...
NYT says Zardari repeated a long debunked hoax
NEW YORK - At the heals of some of President Asif Ali Zardari's statements that raised eyebrows during his recent U.S. visit, a ...
Entertainment
Tear jewellery
FIRST it was tattoos, then it was body piercing, but the latest fashion craze looks so painful it's literally eye-watering. In ...
CERN starts up computing grid to crunch data
GENEVA (AFP) - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Friday unveiled a massive computing grid aimed at ...
JK Rowling tops Forbes' with $238m
JK Rowling earns $5 million a week. The "Harry Potter" author's incredible earnings - equivalent to $8 a second - are from the ...
Boy, 7, feeds crocodile in night-time spree
SYDNEY (AFP) - A seven-year-old Australian boy broke into an animal centre and fed a three-metre (11-foot) crocodile a range of ...
'Little Bang' triggered solar system formation
FOR several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star-a ...
Stressed people are more superstitious
PEOPLE lacking control in their lives are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and superstitions, a study has found. ...
Islamabad
People enjoy Eid holidays
ISLAMABAD (APP) " Thousands of fun seekers including women and children on second and third day of the Eid ul Fitr thronged to ...
9 killed, 10 injured in last 72 hours
RAWALPINDI (Online)- Up to nine people including woman and minor were killed while 10 sustained serious injuries in different ...
Lack of transport irks masses on Eid days
ISLAMABAD (Online)- The inhabitants of twin cities faced enormous problems due to shortage of public transporters during Eid days ...
Deciphering message
A young lad was trying to decipher the following letter from his girl friend: "Dear John, I hope you are not still angry. I want ...
Vocational training centres for beggars to be established
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Bait ul Mal (PBM) has chalked out a special plan to completely exterminate the menace of beggary from ...
Armed Forces celebrate Eid with zeal
RAWALPINDI (APP) - Armed Forces celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with traditional zeal and fervour here on Wednesday. According to ...
CW training camps resume
ISLAMABAD - The training camps of five sports disciplines will resume from today (Saturday) at three different venues after 5-day ...
National
Pace, not spin, will be Aussie trumpcard in India
HYDERABAD (AFP) - Banish the thought that Australia's untested spin attack would hand India a major advantage ahead of the ...
Australia struggle in India tour match
HYDERABAD (AFP) - Ricky Ponting's Australia faltered with both bat and ball here on Friday as an Indian second string gave the ...
ICC moves to douse fire before India-Australia Tests
HYDERABAD (AFP) - Cricket's governing body on Wednesday took pre-emptive steps to ensure the upcoming Test series between India ...
Karachi
Chakki atta price exceeds Rs 35 per kg
KARACHI - The chakki atta price at retail stage in the city has exceeded Rs. 35 per kg while the rate of fine atta has surged to ...
PPP leaders split over alliance with 'Q'
KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh leaders have divided over the PML-Q leaders joining of PPP. Some PPP leaders are ...
Karachiites defy terror threats; throng to public places
KARACHI - Karachiites thronged to Sea View, public parks and food restaurant on third day of the Eid along with their families ...
ATC judge to move SC against termination
KARACHI - The terminated judge of Anti Terrorism Court (ATC), Haq Nawaz Baloch, has decided to move apex court against the ...
Munib criticises media over 'false news'
KARACHI - Chairman Ruit-i-Hilal committee, Mufti Munibur Rehman, said that the decision pertaining to the Eid ...
Prisoners escape from jail; five re-arrested
KARACHI - Six criminals, arrested under different charges, tried to escape from police lock-up at Saudabad Police Station (PS) on ...
Lahore
Convicts who could not pay fine freed
LAHORE (APP) - On the special directive of Chief Minister Punjab, first time in the history of Punjab Prisons Department, all ...
People go crazy in paying tributes to 'heroes'
LAHORE - Every body has his heroes to admire. This was also depicted on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitre this year, as some crazy ...
Man shoots newly-married daughter dead
LAHORE - Four people including a minor boy and a newly-married girl were murdered in separate incidents in the city on Eid days. ...
2 Eids celebrated
LAHORE - Perhaps for the first time in City's history, Lahorites celebrated two Eids-one on Wednesday and the other on Thursday. ...
Law and order govt's top priority: Shahbaz
LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that maintenance of law and order as well as protection of ...
8 dead, many injured in road accidents during Eid days
LAHORE - At least eight people including three one-wheelers lost their lives while many other were injured in separate road ...
RBS National Twenty20 Cup from today
LAHORE - The RBS National Twenty20 Tournament will see 10 top teams of the country lock horns for the biggest prize honours on ...
Windies women tour of Pakistan cancelled
LAHORE - West Indies women's tour of Pakistan has been cancelled due to the unrest and violent situation in the country. The ...
Pakistan beat Belgium in Hamburg Masters Hockey
LAHORE - Pakistan won its first match in Hamburg Masters Hockey Tournament when the greenshirts defeated Belgium 6-3. ...
Pakistan Premier League resume from 8th
LAHORE - The marathon Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL) 2008 will resume on Wednesday, October 8, after Eidul Fitr with two ...
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