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 Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Front Page
UN office in Islamabad bombed
ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of UNs World Food Programme (WFP) building in the Federal Capital on Monday, killing at least five people including a foreign national and two women while four were critically injured. Among the dead, two women were recognized as Mrs Gul ...
UK only says it will 'look into it'
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani urged the British government to reconsider their visa policy for Pakistani ...
Hardcore Qaeda-Taliban fighters smuggled out
ISLAMABAD - Iranian Baloch human smugglers played a key role in ferrying many hardcore Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to various ...
International
Palestinians to sign unity deal on 26th
AMMAN (AFP/Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions are to sign a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 26, Egypts Foreign ...
Palestinians vow to confront Israel
RAMALLAH (Reuters/AFP) - The Western-backed Palestinian government pledged on Monday to confront Israel as Israeli troops clashed ...
Ex-Interpol chief denies corruption charges
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters/AFP) - South Africas ex-police chief and former head of Interpol Jackie Selebi pleaded not guilty to ...
Iran vows 'positive approach to N-talks
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran, praised by the UN atomic watchdog chief for deciding to cooperate with world powers over its nuclear ...
UN report challenges migration misconceptions
UNITED NATIONS - Allowing for migration - both within and between countries- has the potential to increase peoples freedom and ...
Italian PM blasts judges, vows to stay in power
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was jointly responsible for corruption by his Fininvest company in a ...
Britain offered Libya 14m pounds to end IRA support
LONDON (AFP) - Britain secretly offered to pay 14 million pounds to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi as part of a deal to end his ...
Saudi King to visit Syria
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabias King Abdullah is to visit Syria this week to meet President Bashar al-Assad, in a further sign of ...
Relentless Aussies restrict Black Caps
CENTURION (South Africa) (AFP) New Zealand struggled to 200-9 off 50 overs against Australia Monday on a run-friendly SuperSport ...
Safina, Venus out in Beijing; Djokovic advances
BEIJING (AFP) Top seed Dinara Safina imploded at the China Open on Monday, losing to an unheralded Chinese player and clearing ...
Ancelotti's Chelsea take title initiative
LONDON (AFP) Carlo Ancelotti has warned Manchester United that the destiny of the Premier League is in Chelseas hands after the ...
Ronaldinho rescues point for Milan as Juventus crash
ROME (AFP) Substitute Ronaldinho popped up seven minutes from time to salvage a point for AC Milan in a 1-1 draw at 10-man ...
Sevilla slay Real 'Galacticos'
MADRID (AFP) Real Madrids Galacticos crashed to their first defeat of the season losing 2-1 at title rivals Sevilla on Sunday as ...
Graft-hit Polish minister quits
WARSAW (AFP) Polands Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki quit Monday saying he did not want corruption claims against him to ...
UN chief slams attack on WFP's Islamabad office
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned Mondays suicide attack at the UN World Food ...
Haroon phones Ban to condole UN staffers' deaths in blast
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon Monday telephoned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to express ...
Business
IT to generate 5.8m new jobs by 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Information technology will be an employment machine, generating 5.8 million new jobs in the coming four ...
Japan's first passenger jet lands big order
TOKYO (AFP) - An ambitious project to build Japans first ever passenger jet received a huge boost Friday, landing a 100-plane ...
Brazil joins emerging-nation to boost IMF funds
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Brazil became on Monday the latest emerging economy to support the IMF in its upgraded mission as the worlds ...
20,000 garment workers lose jobs in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - The global economic downturn has forced at least 20,000 workers to lose their jobs in Cambodias garment ...
PTA fails to operate SIM info system 668
KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has not yet officially launched a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) ...
AirAsia confirms delivery of 8 Airbus A320s
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Southeast Asias biggest budget carrier AirAsia on Monday confirmed a report that it will defer delivery of ...
France Telecom number 2 resigns
PARIS (AFP) - France Telecoms deputy chief executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, architect of a modernisation drive at the former state ...
Hypo RE will need 5 years to repay state aid: CEO
GERMANY (AFP) - Troubled German property financier Hypo Real Estate (Hypo RE) will need until 2015 to repay about 100 b euros ...
Politics
How did the terrorist enter city with explosives?
ISLAMABAD - The deadly suicide blast that occurred at World Food Programme (WFP)s building here on Monday was the result of poor ...
Expect more blasts, says Malik
ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has told the National Assembly that some more incidents of blasts might occur as the ...
Hakimullah surfaces, meets reporters
PESHAWAR (Reuters/AFP) - The chief of Taliban militants who US and Pakistani officials said might be dead has surfaced to meet ...
NWFP moves on Blackwater
PESHAWAR - The NWFP assembly here on Monday unanimously admitted an adjournment motion for general discussion about the presence ...
Opp demands debate on KLB
ISLAMABAD - Brushing aside Opposition MPs apprehensions about Kerry-Lugar Bill, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said that ...
Taseer's new spin on KLB
LAHORE - Perturbed over wide-ranging criticism on the Kerry-Lugar Bill, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer on Monday maintained that ...
Kaira's unique interpretation of KLB
ISLAMABAD - A few days back a senior official of the US Embassy explained to a select group of journalists about the ...
SC serves notices to defiant Nov 3 judges
ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court of Pakistan here on Monday issued contempt of court notices to all those judges who had defied the ...
Australia retain Trophy
CENTURION (Agencies) - Australia defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets in the ICC Champions Trophy final in Centurion on Monday to ...
Pakistan ranked 141
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistans ranking among 182 countries went down by three points to 141 on the Human Development Index (HDI) of ...
Sugar at Rs40 in Punjab from today: Rana
LAHORE - Taking another bold step to provide relief to the inflation-hit public, Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has ...
Japan to fund drinking water project in Murree
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Japan on Monday announced provision of financial assistance of Rs 7.68 million (US $ 95,258) for supply of ...
6 LHC PCO judges go on leave
LAHORE - Six PCO judges of Lahore High Court went on leave Monday after the Supreme Courts 14-member bench issued contempt of ...
Two more Isaf soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) - Two soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in southern Afghanistan, NATO ...
New deadline for militants in Bajaur
PESHAWAR - The political administration of Bajaur Agency Monday extended the deadline given to militants and Afghan refugees ...
Attack repulsed
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Terrorists fired rockets at Wana checkpost in South Waziristan Agency which was effectively responded by the ...
DSP's house attacked
QUETTA - Unidentified people attacked house of DSP with hand grenade in Kalat district on Monday. As per reports reaching here, ...
2 brothers shot dead
QUETTA - Unidentified people killed two real brothers in Quetta on Monday, police said. According to police, unknown armed men ...
PML-Q becoming friendly opposition?
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and PML(Q) President Ch. Shujaat Hussain expressed their commitment to ...
PPP gives free hand to Nawaz in NA-123
LAHORE - Amid doubts about Mian Nawaz Sharifs contesting the coming by-election, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided not to ...
Entertainment
3 Americans win 2009 Nobel for medicine
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three American scientists won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday for their discovery ...
Winehouse loses 9m in 12 months
AMY WINEHOUSE is down to her last 1 million, according to reports. The singer, whose last album 'Back To Black was released in ...
Fish-killing toxin could kill cancer cells
A POWERFUL fish-killing toxin could have cancer-killing properties as well, according to collaborative research led by ...
Paris to play monster on small screen
AMERICAN socialite Paris Hilton is all set to play a monster in the US TV series 'Supernatural. Show creator Eric Kripke said ...
Amazing underwater pictures taken by cave diver
CRAWLING through underwater caves in Antarctica to Mexico, Florida to Bermuda, it is a good thing that Jill Heinerth is not ...
Islamabad
More incentives for teachers demanded
ISLAMABAD - On the eve of Teacher's Day, the teacher community has reminded the government to fulfill the promises made by every ...
Health strategy launched for mothers, newborns
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Health, in partnership with 'Save the Children, an NGO, on Monday launched its national maternal ...
Funds for projects sought
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has launched a number of development projects for the ...
4 police officials suspended
RAWALPINDI - The Regional Police Officer (RPO) of Rawalpindi, Muhammad Aslam Tareen Monday suspended four police officials on ...
Encroachment in the name of facilitation
ISLAMABAD - After seeing increase in popularity of Sasta Tandoors in the federal capital established by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ...
9 members of car-lifting gangs busted
RAWALPINDI - Police busted nine members of two gangs involved in car-lifting and armed robberies. The City Police Officer (CPO), ...
Karachi
Qaim says law & order improving
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Monday said in past Sindh had faced worrisome condition of law and order ...
Poverty eradication must to boost literacy
KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq has said that it is imperative to spread ...
Greek national sent on remand
KARACHI - Judicial Magistrate District (Malir) on Monday ordered physical remand of Greek national till October 10 who was ...
Opp flays removal of ZAB's quotes
KARACHI - Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-backed Awam Dost Group in City Council had vehemently protested, staged sit-in and walked ...
Travelogue featuring Haj journey published
KARACHI (APP)- Musafir Haram Ka, yet another book by Athar Iqbal, a renowned writer of books for children, has been published in ...
Transfusion of over 28 days old blood can be fatal: study
KARACHI (PPI) - People whove suffered severe trauma and are given a major transfusion of red blood cells that have been stored ...
Warm welcome for Pakistan team
KARACHI A large number of cricket fans gathered here on Monday at the Karachi airport to give a warm welcome to Pakistan team ...
Harrowing security caused Chicago Olympic snub
KARACHI The city of Chicago was denied the hosting rights of 2016 Olympic Games not because it was in any way inferior to other ...
Lahore
Monkey's day out Jam sajjad hussain
LAHORE - The City Zoo monkey, who sneaked out of an enclosure on Monday, put up a great show of entertainment for at least five ...
LHC moved for placing Wattoo's name on ECL
LAHORE - An application has been moved in the Lahore High Court to place the names of Federal Minister for Industries and ...
Commerce group to be introduced at SSC level
LAHORE - The Punjab Education Department is introducing commerce group as a separate group at par with the science, arts and ...
15,000 illegal commercial units swarm
LAHORE - As the Punjab government has adopted a go slow policy in the revision of commercialisation policy, more than 15,000 ...
Careless driving main cause of accidents: Arbab
LAHORE - Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan has said that road safety is an international problem as ...
ICC to watch video of dropped catch by Younus
LAHORE Pakistan captain Younus Khans dropped catch in Saturdays Champions Trophy semi-final against New Zealand has raised calls ...
Lahore teams named for taekwondo trials
LAHORE The Lahore District Taekwondo Association has selected boys and girls team to take part in the open trials to select the ...
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