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 07, 2008
Front Page
NA member's house bombed
BHAKKAR - A suicide bomber killed 26 people and over 70 others were injured, many of them critically, on Monday in the latest attack to underscore the threat posed by Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants. The attacker blew himself up in a crowd of people at the house of Rashid Akbar Khan Nawani, ...
S&P downgrades Pak currency rating
KARACHI - Standard & Poor's, the US-based credit rating providing company, has downgraded Pakistan's long-term foreign ...
Kabul, Taliban hold talks in Makkah
TALIBAN leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict - and are ...
Support to Kashmiris just cause reassured
Islamabad - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sherry Rehman has said that the President of Pakistan has not ...
International
Bush Administration pledges rapid response to financial crisis
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration Monday pledged to move rapidly to deal with the current financial crisis. ...
India can whip Australia 3-1, predicts Sehwag
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India could thrash Australia 3-1 in the upcoming Test series if it is played on turning pitches, opener ...
Raul double fails to lift faltering Real
BARCELONA (AFP) - Veteran striker Raul Gonzalez scored twice but Real Madrid still lost ground in the Spanish title race after ...
NATO commander calls for blitz on Afghan drugs traffic
BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO's top commander in Europe called Monday for a decisive assault by international forces on drug trafficking ...
Israel and US won't attack, says Iran's FM
NEW YORK - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki does not believe Israel or the US would launch a military strike against ...
North Korea gives ultimatum on N-deal
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has given the US an ultimatum to accept its proposed solution to the latest nuclear row between the two ...
No plans to allow US think-tank on Iran soil: Tehran
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Monday that it did not plan to allow a US research and policy think-tank to open in the Islamic ...
UN experts urge states to do more to respect rights of detainees
UNITED NATIONS - A group of 13 independent UN experts Monday urged that the human rights of the millions of detainees worldwide ...
0.2m Afghans could flee hunger, insecurity: ICRC
GENEVA (AFP) - The international Red Cross warned Monday that more than 200,000 people in the north of Afghanistan could be ...
Quake kills 74 in Kyrgystan, 30 in Tibet
BISHKEK (AFP) - Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for ...
Tiger suicide attack kills 27 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO (AFP) - A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber triggered a blast inside offices of the main opposition party in Sri Lanka on ...
Iran, Lebanon ban Chinese milk products
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has banned imports of Chinese milk products over a contamination scandal, which has left thousands of babies ...
Business
Revenue collection up by 23.5 per cent
ISLAMABAD- Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected Rs 253.4 billion taxes during first quarter of the fiscal year 2008-09 ...
POL, ATRL and APL profits may jump up
KARACHI - The Attock Group of companies including Pakistan Oilfields (POL) Attock Petroleum (APL) and Attock Refinery Limited ...
Stock market remains static all daylong
LAHORE - In continuation of the last week's bearish trend the equity market on first trading day after Eid holidays carried on ...
FM launches economic diplomacy initiative
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi launched the Economic Diplomacy Initiative by holding a meeting ...
Call to ban unnecessary imported goods
LAHORE- Former President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Tariq Sayeed has urged the govt to ...
KSE recomposes its 100 index
KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has recomposed its benchmark KSE-100 index effective from October 06, 2008. As per the ...
Oil prices hit eight-month low
LONDON (AFP) - Crude oil prices slumped to eight month low points below 90 dollars a barrel on Monday as worsening financial ...
Euro hits 13-month low against dollar
LONDON (AFP) - The euro fell to a 13-month low point of 1.3543 dollars on Monday as the deepening crisis in Europe's banking ...
Government should bail out small traders from economic crisis
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Traders Alliance (NTA) on Monday said government should bailout small traders from economic problems. ...
World celebrates 'decent work for all' day today
World Day "Decent Work for All" is being commemorated on 7th October, 2008 in more than 154 countries by workers organisations in ...
Politics
Flour price to exceed Rs45/ kg next year
KARACHI - The flour price in the country is expected to exceed Rs45 per kg in the backdrop of increase in the support price of ...
Pak territory can't be used against any country: Noman
CHIEF of the Naval Staff-designate Admiral Noman Bashir has maintained that vast expanse of waters around Pakistan have assigned ...
Poor to get BB income cards through MNAs
LAHORE - The PPP-led coalition government has decided to distribute Benazir Bhutto income cards among the poor families through ...
President to decide about Sarabjeet case: Naek
LAHORE - Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek has said the government was considering to start evening courts, which would ensure ...
IHC adjourns Dr Aafia's case till 15th
ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC), Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam on Monday put off the hearing in a petition ...
AG forced to leave Bar room
MULTAN - Attorney General of Pakistan Latif Khan Khosa was forced to leave the Bar room of Lahore High Court Multan Bench on ...
Pakistan's flag hoisted in five Indian districts
Dejected by their government's helplessness in face of rising racial clashes, some Indians hoisted Pakistan's flag in five ...
President plane diverted to Lahore
LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari had a stopover in Lahore on Sunday night on his way to Islamabad from Dubai, where he had ...
PPP to expand Cabinet gradually
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples Party's high command has resolved to expand, gradually rather than at once, the Federal Cabinet by ...
Lawyers to observe 'Black Day' on Nov 3
KARACHI-President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday announced to observe 'Black Day' on November 3 ...
Notification of Tareen as PM advisor today
LAHORE - Renowned banker Shaukat Tareen is taking oath as advisor to the prime minister on finance on Tuesday (today) after ...
Ministry mulls one-day weekly gas 'holiday'
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Petroleum has floated a proposal of one-day weekly gas holiday for the whole industry to overcome gas ...
WB warns of financial crisis' effects
WASHINGTON - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday the way the world tries to solve its economic problems needs to be ...
Kashmiris protest against Zardari
A group of Kashmiri protesters in Indian Kashmir defied a curfew to denounce Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and to burn his ...
3 killed in Taliban-forces clashes
SWAT/KHAR - At least three persons were killed and four others including three children sustained critical injuries when Taliban ...
No headway to undo irritants in Constitution
LAHORE - Almost two weeks have elapsed since President Asif Ali Zardari announced to form a bipartisan committee of the ...
Entertainment
Research on AIDS virus and cancer wins Nobel Medicine Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won ...
US war painting gets epic restoration
GETTYSBURG (Pennsylvania) (AFP) - After years of exposure to rot and mishandling, a US institution has been pulled back from the ...
Half of mammals in decline
BARCELONA (AFP) - Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an ...
Sun is not a perfect sphere, Nasa spacecraft finds
SCIENTISTS using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it ...
unveils ultra-fast search of recordings
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it has developed technology that makes it possible to find a single word in 2,000 ...
'Rickshaw Idols' ride to glory in Bangladesh
DHAKA (AFP) - On the busy streets of Dhaka, Omar Ali snakes his way through the city's gridlocked traffic, pedalling passengers ...
Islamabad
Power outages continue to hurt citizens
LAHORE - Unabated power breakdowns continued to hurt the citizens mainly because of hot weather and partly due to cut in water ...
All set to accord Qazi Hussain warm welcome
RAWALPINDI - Acting Ameer Jammat-e-Islami (JI) City Raja Abdul Waheed has said that "Train March" would be given a tumultuous ...
Violations affecting pharmaceutical industry
ISLAMABAD - Senate Standing Committee on Interior to review gross violations of the Intellectual Property Rights in Pakistan, has ...
Blood Bank at PIMS to be registered, licensed
ISLAMABAD- Islamabad Blood Transfusion Authority (IBTA) has formally registered Blood Bank at PIMS and approved to grant it ...
French Admiral, CJCSC discuss security environment
ISLAMABAD - Military Joint Chief of Staff to President of French Republic, Admiral Edouard Guillad Monday called on Chairman ...
'Noon Meem Rashid"A trend-setting poet'
ISLAMABAD - "N.M Rashid was the trend setting poet of Urdu Nazam whereas Mushtaq Ahmed Yousafi is an innovative and original ...
Prostate cancer can be spotted within no time: Study
ISLAMABAD (Online)- Scientists have launched a new blood test in Britain. They said that they can spot prostrate cancer, the most ...
Karachi
Germany trounce Pakistan to win Hamburg Masters
KARACHI (APP) - World and Olympic Champion Germany showed their scoring fire powers on the final day of 4-nation Hamburg Masters ...
Pakistan placed 9th in Mind Games bridge
KARACHI (APP) - Pakistan open team with 91 Victory Points (VPs) is placed ninth in bridge competition of inaugural World Mind ...
PCB women wing recasting training for World Cup
KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Boards women's wing is recasting its training programme after the West Indies women's team citing ...
Gastro another threat after dengue
KARACHI - Gastroenteritis has become another threat for the citizens after dengue fever; as several cases of gastroenteritis has ...
Technical education for Central Jail inmates from Nov
KARACHI - Technical education for prisoners at Karachi Central Jail is expected to begin from November, while several industrial ...
Sister rejects psychiatric evaluation orders of Aafia
KARACHI - Dr Fouzia Siddiqui, sister of detained Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has thanked government of Pakistan for all its cooperation ...
US donates multimedia equipment to Pilot Schools
Karachi - The US consulate in Karachi has donated multimedia equipment including VCD player and TV sets and other articles for ...
City Government to deal strictly with traffic violators
KARACHI-City District Government Karachi has decided to deal strictly with the illegal parking and violation of traffic rules at ...
4 commit suicide over poverty
KARACHI - The continuous rising unemployment rate has compelled four more to commit suicide here on Monday. Farhan, 23, had ...
Lahore
Islamabad, Sialkot storm into semis
LAHORE - Islamabad Leopards pushed the Multan Tigers to their den to qualify for the semi-final of the RBS Twenty20 Cup here at ...
Pakistan team for Toronto event to be named today
LAHORE - The announcement of Pakistan team for the Canada's Four-nation T20 Tournament has been delayed for one day and team ...
Mudassar to resign from NCA head coach's job
LAHORE - Former Pakistan opener Mudassar Nazar will quit as head coach of the National Cricket Academy in order to take up a ...
Indian hockey team to visit Pakistan next month
LAHORE - Pakistan and Indian Hockey Federations have reached an agreement to revive bilateral test series of their junior and ...
More women hockey players called up
LAHORE - The camp commandants of the women hockey for AHF Tournament has decided to call more players for the camp. Olympian ...
Govt extends Railways Police jurisdiction
LAHORE - Lacking in basic infrastructure, manpower and other necessary facilities, Pakistan Railways Police (PRP) are facing an ...
Formula for PA standing committees evolved
LAHORE - Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal and Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah on Monday had a meeting at Speaker's ...
Security put on high alert in City
LAHORE - After suicide attack in Bhakkar, the city police Monday reviewed security arrangements and put the law enforcement ...
LDA hands over road development projects to FWO
LAHORE - The LDA has formally handed over all road development projects to the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), one day before ...
Shahbaz suspends LDA officers
LAHOR - Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has issued orders for immediate suspension of the LDA officers who failed to ...
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