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 Saturday, September 12, 2009
Front Page
Pakistan throws out India protest
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Deputy High Commissioner of India in Islamabad was called to the Foreign Office on Friday and Indian protest on Gilgit-Baltistan self-rule order was rejected. The Foreign Office Director General (South Asia) emphasised that Pakistan rejects the Indian protest as the Government ...
The Chief visits Dir
ISLAMABAD - The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (COAS), who visited Dir on Friday, said the campaign to uproot ...
Caught at last
IBRAHIM KHAN KHAIL AND NADER BUNERI PESHAWAR - Spokesman defunct outfit Tehrik Taliban Swat Muslim Khan was apprehended along ...
International
Afghan war not cutting terror threat: poll
LONDON/WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly half of all Britons think the war in Afghanistan is not cutting the threat of terrorism in ...
Peace in Afghanistan best tribute to victims
KABUL (AFP) - Peace in Afghanistan would be the best tribute to those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the US ambassador ...
CAIR concerned at 'spike in anti-Muslim incidents
WASHINGTON - A prominent Islamic civil rights and advocacy organisation has expressed concern about a recent spike in reports of ...
Doubts within Democratic Party growing on Afghan war
NEW YORK - With scepticism on the war in Afghanistan growing among Democrats, a key senator has said the United States must speed ...
Actor Sheen asks Obama to reopen 9/11 investigation
WASHINGTON - Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has urged President Barack Obama to reopen the investigation into the September 11, ...
Russia warns West against attack on Iran
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Friday stood firm against intense new international pressure over its disputed nuclear programme, and ...
Taiwan former president jailed for life in graft case
TAIPEI (AFP) - A Taiwan court Friday sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian to life in jail after a corruption trial that he said ...
America, UK issue warnings over Afghan vote delay
KABUL (AFP) - The United States warned Friday that delays in resolving troubled Afghan polls would benefit the Taliban as a vote ...
US, China extend talks on counterterrorism
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and China are to expand their dialogue to cover counterterrorism, announced US Secretary of ...
Belgian schools ban headscarf
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Dutch-language public schools in Belgium will ban the wearing of Muslim headscarves in classes, school officials ...
US eyes $7.8b missile sale to Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama Administration has notified Congress of a possible sale to Turkey of advanced Patriot PAC-3 ...
Pakistan to play Australia at Lord's and Headingley
LONDON (AFP) - Australia will face Pakistan in two Test matches at Lords's and Headingley in July 2010, the England and Wales ...
Serena, Clijsters have Open final feel
NEW YORK (AFP) - You know Kim Clijsters made an impressive comeback from a two-year layoff to start a family when Serena Williams ...
Raina, Dhoni help India enter tri-series final
COLOMBO (AFP) - Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni batted sensibly to guide India to the tri-series final with an emphatic ...
Del Potro into semis, Nadal, Gonzalez tie a damp squib
NEW YORK (AFP) - Juan Martin del Potro reached the US Open semi-finals on Thursday and then sat back and watched as the Rafael ...
ECB told to look closer at venues after Old Trafford pitch fiasco
LONDON (AFP) - The England and Wales Cricket Board have been told to take a closer look at potential international venues before ...
Business
Trade deficit drops to $2.194b in two months
KARACHI - Pakistans trade deficit has sharply fallen by 38.45 per cent to $2.194 billion during the first two months of current ...
Financing facilities for small traders sought
ISLAMABAD - President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI), Mian Shaukat Masud, Friday said that government should ...
KSE regains 9,000 level on foreign investment
KARACHI - The KSE 100-share index once again recovered the lost glory on the last trading day of the week as it gained 63 points ...
TDAP, USAID to promote trade
KARACHI (APP) - A fifteen member delegation of USAID visited Trade Development Authority of Pakistan Friday to discuss ...
Stock market joins ICB club
KARACHI - The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has adopted the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB), a jointly developed ...
Plan to set up China Special Industrial Zone in Sindh
KARACHI - The government has prepared a plan to establish 'China Special Industrial Zone in the province, sources told The ...
Oil prices steady amid strong supplies
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices were little changed on Friday following a week in which crude futures have won support from increased ...
Pakistan, China mulling to make yuan standard currency for trade
PAKISTAN and China are mulling to make Chinese currency yuan as the standard currency instead of American dollar for mutual trade ...
Luxury segment leads as auto sales go up by 22pc
KARACHI - The auto sales (cars, LCVs & pick-ups) improved by 22 per cent to 20.9 units on year-on-year basis during the second ...
Economy - A long way to go
As Ismet Pasha was to realize in Lausanne, Switzerland, that while the Turkish Nationalists (under the visionary leadership of ...
UN panel proposes new global reserve, credit systems to avert future crises
UNITED NATIONS, A high-level UN commission on the world financial crisis has called for a new global reserve system that does not ...
Politics
Obama for renewal of fight against Al-Qaeda
WASHINGTO - US President Barack Obama called on Americans to renew our common purpose Friday as he marked the eighth anniversary ...
Rehman hits out at Indian flip-flops on terror cooperation
ISLAMABAD - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik refuted his Indian counterpart Chadambaram reservations regarding ...
BHC summons Musharraf, others
QUETTA - While hearing a petition on Friday, the Balochistan High Court (BHC) issued notices to former president Gen (r) Pervez ...
No-show yet after govt's 24-hour deadline
KHYBER (Reuters/AFP) - Khybers top government administrator, Tariq Hayat, said on Friday Bara had been almost cleared of ...
Lashkar clears 25 villages in Dir
UPPER DIR - Qaumi Lashkar Friday claimed to have set ablaze and demolished over 120 houses and suspected hideouts of militants ...
Mob torches church in Sambrial
DASKA - A local catholic church on Friday afternoon was gutted when an angry mob set it ablaze to lament over alleged desecration ...
Quaids anniversary observed
LAHORE (PPI) - The 61st death anniversary of the father of nation the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was observed with national ...
US to double diplomatic staff
The United States Embassy officials in Islamabad have said after the planned expansion in its diplomatic missions in Pakistan, ...
No dossier on Balochistan handed to India: Qureshi
PAKISTAN has stated for the first time since the Singh-Gilani meeting in Egypt in July that it has not handed over a dossier on ...
UN Commission to visit London, Washington
UNITED NATIONS-The UN Commission inquiring into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is seeking a meeting ...
Over 100,000 people uprooted by clashes in Waziristan: UN
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations said Friday that it was providing assistance to more than 100,000 people driven from their ...
WB lends $300m for social safety nets, higher education
WASHINGTON - The World Bank has approved two projects totalling US$ 300 million to help the Pakistani government strengthening ...
Ghafoor roughs up jail staff
LAHORE - Punjab Minister for Prisons, Ch. Abdul Ghafoor, in yet another, incident became rash on the staff of Camp Jail only to ...
'Resign', says minister to Faisal
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water & Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has asked MNA Faisal Saleh Hayat to resign immediately as his ...
Balochistan uplift priority: Asif
ISLAMABAD(APP)-President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the govt is committed to alleviate the sense of deprivation of the people ...
UK pays 25,000 daily for Musharrafs security
LONDON (Agencies) - Amid calls for withdrawal of the security cover to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, a leading ...
India tops list of countries using child, forced labour: US study
NEW YORK (Reuters/AFP) - Children and forced labourers are mining gold, sewing clothing and harvesting cocoa around the world, ...
Ali Geelani placed under house arrest
SRINAGAR (AFP) - A top Kashmiri leader in Kashmir was put under house arrest Friday to prevent protests against Indian rule ...
Foreign Secy invites Rao for talks
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir Friday invited Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to Islamabad for Foreign ...
Kaira flays attack on Waqt TV team
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Strongly condemning the attack on Waqt TV channel reporting team in Murree, Minister for Information and ...
Entertainment
Centenarians in Japan top 40,000 mark
TOKYO (AFP) - The number of centenarians in Japan has topped 40,000 for the first time, a government survey showed Friday, amid ...
A bowl of blueberries keeps brain active in afternoon
MUNCHING a bowl of blueberries for breakfast can stop you flagging in the afternoon, a new study shows. Researchers found that a ...
Being a mom keeps me in shape: Ashlee
ASHLEE Simpson doesnt need to go to the gym now that shes a mom - she says running around after her baby son is enough to keep ...
My mom is my role model: Ashley Tisdale
ASHLEY Tisdale wants to be just like her mom. The High School Musical actress says her mother Lisa is her perfect role model. I ...
Venice film festival gives voice to Iranian Opp
VENICE (AFP) - The Venice film festival is providing a timely forum for Iranian works such as Shirin Neshats Women Without Men ...
Jackson tribute concert postponed
THE tribute concert for Michael Jackson, set to take place in Vienna this month, has been rescheduled for London in June ...
Islamabad
PTF to hire foreign coach after Ramazan
ISLAMABAD -President Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) Syed Dilawar Abbas said here Friday that the PTF would hire the foreign ...
Special Response Units constituted
ISLAMABAD - Inspector General of Police (IGP) Syed Kaleem Imam has constituted Special Response Units (SRUs) to ensure security ...
Union activists hold demo, demand detainees' release
RAWALPINDI - Scores of office-bearers and workers of railway unions on Friday staged a protest demonstration at Rawalpindi ...
12 vehicles challaned
ISLAMABAD - Secretary of Islamabad Transport Authority Asia Gul on Friday imposed fine amounting to Rs 19,800 on 25 public ...
Mehfil-e-Qirat at FJWU
RAWALPINDI - In connection with the holy month of Ramazan, a Mehfil-e-Qirat was organised at Fatima Jinnah Women University, ...
Exhibition attracts women of all ages
ISLAMABAD - Development Communications Network (DEVCOM-Pakistan) Friday organised an exhibition at Shahzad Town as part of their ...
Nation urged to follow Quaid' vision
ISLAMABAD (APP): The nation must follow founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnahs principles of 'Unity, Faith and ...
Karachi
Punjab has no objection: Qaim
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said the federal government and not the Punjab government has reservations ...
Unicef shows satisfaction over IDPs rehabilitation
KARACHI - The case history of internally-displaced persons is not new in Pakistan; larger number of Afghan diasporas were ...
Action against ghost staffers to continue: Kamal
KARACHI - City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has said that action against ghost employees in City government will continue and so far 350 ...
PML-Q doing politics of principles: Mushahid
KARACHI (APP)- Secretary General PML(Q) Mushahid Hussain Syed Friday said that the committee headed by Senator Raza Rabbani has ...
PG served notice on convicts' appeal
KARACHI - Sindh High Court Friday issued notice to Prosecutor General Sindh on appeal filed by a policeman in rape & murder of a ...
Champions Trophy crucial for my cricket future
KARACHI (APP)- Pakistan Twenty20 Captain Shahid Khan Afridi said on Thursday evening that forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy is an ...
Multan Falcons outgun Karachi Dolphins
KARACHI - Karachi Dolphins slumped to its second defeat in the MCB Junior Hockey Super league when they lost to Multan falcons ...
Lahore
Dictators derailed democracy: Nizami
LAHORE - Editor-in-Chief The Nation and Chairman Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami said on Friday we achieved Pakistan under ...
PbBC election drive kicks off
LAHORE - The candidates for the general election of Punjab Bar Council have begun to show their presence in a big way in the city ...
PPP dissatisfied with Punjab govt performance
LAHORE - The office-bearers of PPP Lahore organisation have expressed their dissatisfaction over performance of the Punjab ...
1,511 juveniles languishing in jails
LAHORE - Members of the Lahore High Court Bar Association have expressed deep concern on a report appearing in a section of the ...
Thousands sit in Aitkaf
LAHORE - Thousands of people on Sunday sat in Aitkaf at various mosques in the City and across the country to spend last ten days ...
Investment board constituted to facilitate traders: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that a comprehensive strategy had been adopted for the promotion of ...
Pakistan may play D/N Test matches against England
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is likely to take the offer put forward by the English and Wales Cricket Board of holding a ...
BCCI trying to isolate Pakistan from world cricket: Mani
LAHORE - Former ICC President Ehsan Mani has held the Indian Cricket Board responsible for the shifting of the 2011 World Cup ...
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