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, September 14, 2008
Front Page
Bombs hit Delhi shopping malls
NEW DELHI (Agencies) - A series of synchronised bomb blasts rocked New Delhi on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 100 in some of the busiest market areas of the Indian capital. Indian Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the bombings in an e-mail. The group has ...
Senate body asks govt to cut oil prices
ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat and Special Initiatives (Cabinet Division) has strongly ...
Gilani for out-of-the-box solutions
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the government was taking bold initiatives and finding ...
Fighter jets off to Fata
KHAR (Agencies) - Another 100 militants were killed Saturday in fierce fighting with government troops hunting Taliban fighters ...
International
'Blade Runner' wins 200m, China stretches clear
BEIJING (AFP) - Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius Saturday won his second gold of the Paralympic Games as China stretched ...
Austrian teen shocks top seed Hantuchova
NUSA DUA (AFP) - Austrian teenager Tamira Paszek shocked top seed Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to set up a Bali Open final ...
Hampshire victory virtually dooms Surrey
LONDON (AFP) - Hampshire went to the top of English county championship on Friday with an innings and 122 runs victory over ...
Russia shrug off Fed Cup final favourites
MADRID (AFP) - Russia captain Shamil Tarpischev insisted on Friday that his defending Fed Cup champions will not start as ...
Celtic survive second-half comeback to claim win
GLASGOW (AFP) - Celtic warmed up for their midweek Champions League match against Aalborg with a 4-2 win over Motherwell at Fir ...
Bush Admin intensifying efforts to capture Osama before Nov polls
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is pushing for increased military action along the Pak-Afghan border as part of a plan to ...
US lawmakers caution against rushing vote on N. deal
WASHINGTON - A group of senior U.S. Democratic lawmakers have stepped in to call for a detailed examination of the landmark ...
Iraqi television crew slaughtered
MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - Gunmen kidnapped and killed on Saturday a four-member Iraqi television crew filming a popular Ramazan ...
Trains roll again through fire-hit Channel Tunnel
CALAIS, France (AFP) - Freight services resumed through the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar passenger trains made a slow comeback ...
Hurricane Ike ravages Texas
GALVESTON, Texas (AFP) - Gigantic hurricane Ike barrelled into Texas early Saturday, bringing a monster ocean surge, knocking out ...
Violence flares in West Bank
NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - A Palestinian was shot dead by an Israeli army patrol and four others were wounded in clashes with ...
Russian troops pull out of western Georgia
POTI, Georgia (AFP) - Russian troops pulled out of encampments in western Georgia on Saturday as the shooting of a Georgian ...
51 dead in China bus accident
BEIJING (AFP) - A bus careered off a road in mountainous southwest China and plunged into a valley on Saturday, killing all 51 ...
150 Bangladeshis held for crossing into India
KOLKATA, India (AFP) - Indian border guards have arrested 150 Bangladeshis who sailed into India in what security officials ...
Russia accused of destabilising Ukraine
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of seeking to destabilise the ex-Soviet state, dismissing the idea it was in ...
Business
WB chief calls for new approach to fragile states
UNITED NATIONS - World Bank President Robert Zoellick has called for a new approach to fragile states focused on "securing ...
Govt warns to suspend wheat quota
KARACHI-The provincial food department of Sindh government has warned the flour mills owners to suspend the wheat quota, who are ...
Federal govt borrowing increases to Rs46 billion
KARACHI - Despite government commitment to achieve zero borrowing from State Bank and other commercial banks, the federal ...
Remittances soar to $1.22b during first 2 months of FY09
KARACHI - Remittances sent home by overseas Pakistanis continued to show a rising trend as an amount of $1,219.51 million was ...
CPI registers 25.33pc increase in August
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Consumers Price Indicator (CPI) during August showed an increase of 25.33 percent over the same month of ...
Oil leads commodity prices lower
LONDON (AFP) - Crude oil futures slid to six-month lows below 100 dollars this week and many other commodities fell as the dollar ...
Unisame urges govt for basic needs
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has drawn the urgent attention of the government to the basic needs ...
E-banking transactions grow 32pc to Rs 13.9 trillion in FY08
KARACHI- Electronic Banking (E-banking) is getting increasingly popular as the number and value of E-banking transactions in the ...
Lehman faces weekend scramble to avert collapse
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Embattled investment giant Lehman Brothers faced a weekend of scrambling for a buyer in the face of a massacre ...
US data may brighten future of Japanese stocks
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese shares may stabilise in the coming week if fresh US economic data shows evidence that the financial sector ...
Politics
Pakistan condemns blasts
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani have strongly condemned the bomb blasts in New Delhi ...
Bomb kills Logar governor
PAGHMAN (AFP) - A remote-controlled bomb blew up the vehicle of a provincial governor Saturday killing him and three other men ...
President accepts 'N' resignations
ISLAMABAD (APP)- President Asif Ali Zardari has accepted the resignations tendered by the federal ministers belonging to PML (N). ...
Duty slapped on oil export to Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has imposed regulatory duty on exports of high-speed diesel and superior kerosene oil to Afghanistan in ...
Pakistan on threshold of revolution
Pakistan is now the focus of the long war on terrorism. Its new President has a murky past and few democratic credentials. How ...
American raids into Pakistan come under criticism in US
WASHINGTON - Voices are being raised by some US politicians and experts against the Bush administration recent military assaults ...
Raisani asks PPL to reinstate sacked staff
QUETTA - The Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani has urged upon Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) for ...
Two injured in bomb blast near school bus
LAKKI MARWAT - A bomb explosion hardly a few yards away from a school bus carrying students and staff members of Working Folks ...
Zardari arrives in UK today
LONDON (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari reaching UK today will hold important talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on ...
Rulers only targeting Baloch people: Mengal
QUETTA-Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal has said though a change has come into country after election of Asif ...
Entertainment
Court delays Puttar film release
A court in India has postponed the release of a film entitled Hari Puttar, after complaints from the makers of the blockbuster ...
Jolie's kids made her a woman
ANGELINA Jolie says her children have "made" her a woman. The "Wanted" actress - who recently gave birth to twins Knox Leon and ...
Baby turtle with two-heads
IT is the baby turtle that proves two heads really are better than one. While its siblings grow at a usual steady pace, this tiny ...
When the mirror becomes an enemy
A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place - who hasn't focused on a small detail of their ...
Hackers find black hole in atom smasher computers
LONDON (AFP) - Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to ...
Lee does the right thing for forgotten black troops
DEAUVILLE (France) (AFP) - Spike Lee visited a World War II cemetery near France's D-Day landing beaches before presenting the ...
Islamabad
Open manholes threat to residents
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) seems indifferent to dozens of lidless and boiling manholes posing ...
Grand operation against illegal abattoirs soon
RAWALPIND -District Coordination Officer DCO Rawalpindi Imdad ullah Bosal has announced to launch a grand operation against the ...
Mega events, photo exhibition on September 27
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Tourism is going to hold mega events along with photo exhibition in connection with celebration of ...
Drive against profiteers gaining momentum
ISLAMABAD (APP) -The ongoing anti-profiteering drive has been further intensified in Islamabad and the magistrates during ...
Ban on construction of new houses
ISLAMABAD (APP)- Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has imposed ban on construction of new houses in the villages ...
ITP chief urges motorists to demonstrate patience
ISLAMABAD- Senior Superintendent Police, Traffic, Muhammad Zubair Hashmi has urged motorists to demonstrate patience while ...
Karachi
Pakistan finally get Canada T20 confirmation
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan's cricket-starved side finally got some good news on Saturday when organisers confirmed a four-nation ...
Haj applications balloting on 17th
ISLAMABAD - The balloting of Haj applications for 2008, under government's Haj Scheme, would be held on September 17. The ...
Only women sports facility in a shambles
KARACHI - The CDGK authorities have been continuously neglecting the women sports complex, situated in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, for the ...
Expansion in Sindh Cabinet unlikely
KARACHI - No expansion in the Sindh Cabinet is expected and PPP has not offered portfolios of local, home and finance ministries ...
Loadshedding lends more heat to Karachiites
KARACHI - The loadshedding situation prevails in the City coupled with another hot day of the season on Saturday. The persisting ...
Nepotism, cronyism flourish in Sindh
KARACHI - Sindh government has named a lightweight provincial committee comprising of non-entities and non-related individuals ...
Enter the President
So it is official, Asif Ali Zardari, is now the most powerful man in Pakistan, as the 12th President of the Islamic Republic of ...
Only 26 point buses for 26,000 KU students
KARACHI (PPI) - Some 26,000 students of Pakistan's largest university, University of Karachi, are facing immense hardship due to ...
Lahore
Pakistan look towards West Indies for test series
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board Saturday said the BCCI's objection to the October 2009 dates of the Champions Trophy was ...
Hospital doctors 'kidnap' female NGO worker
LAHORE - A group of house job doctors of the Mayo Hospital kidnapped and locked a female NGO worker in a room of pediatric ...
Loadshedding hits City again
LAHORE - Despite the tall claims of the Pakistan Electric Power Company, three to five hours unscheduled loadshedding has hit the ...
Roti available at Rs2
LAHORE - The Nan bais have started selling Roti at Rs 2 in the City after the govt provided them flour at subsidised rates, ...
Heiki, Sabine's homage to weird, wonderful
LAHORE - Freak Show's stunning visuals and humour enthrals the audience not used to such artistic treat. The German artistes ...
Tribunal for probing PEC financial, administrative affairs
LAHORE - The Punjab government has constituted a high-powered 3-member tribunal for conducting inquiry into the financial and ...
25 LHC judges to hold sitting on single benches
LAHORE - As many as 25 judges of the Lahore High Court would hold sitting on the Single Benches at the Principal Seat, Lahore, ...
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