Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- 9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot
- Greece reaches deal on austerity
The Nation in print for Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Front Page
Bush pledges security aid to Pakistan
NEW YORK - President George W Bush Tuesday reaffirmed United States' respect for Pakistan's sovereignty at his talks with President Asif Ali Zardari aimed at defusing tension over US military strikes in the Pakistani territory. But the US leader did not give any categorical assurance that ...
US spy plane 'shot down'
LOCAL tribes on Tuesday claimed to have shot down an American drone near Angoor Adda, reported a private TV channel, quoting ...
Greatest threat to US from Fata: Gates
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that a victory over terrorism in Afghanistan was impossible as long as Taliban and ...
Pakistan 46th most corrupt country
ISLAMABAD - Transparency International (TI) ranked Pakistan as the 46th most corrupt country out of 180 on the globe, fearing ...
International
Safin, Aisam out of Thailand Open Tennis
BANGKOK (AFP) - Philipp Petzschner sprang the first upset of the Thailand Open with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) defeat of error-prone ...
Inexperience no handicap, Lee warns India
JAIPUR (AFP) - Paceman Brett Lee said on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming Test series that Australia would not be intimidated in ...
UN chief calls for 'global leadership'
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "global leadership" as he pressed world leaders not ...
Corruption Perceptions Index
BERLIN (AFP) - Rankings of 180 nations studied by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International for its annual Corruption ...
S Arabia seeks UN meet on Israeli settlements
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Saudi Arabia on Monday formally called for an urgent ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council to ...
11 South Africa cabinet members resign
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Eleven key members of South Africa's cabinet have resigned following President Thabo Mbeki's decision to ...
US responsible for world tensions: Nejad
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday accused the United States of encircling his country, and ...
I'm serious choice for hard times, says Brown
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) - British premier Gordon Brown used a highly personal speech Tuesday to argue he was a serious leader ...
Sacked Indian workers kill boss
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Sacked workers in India beat to death the local boss of an Italian company that had laid them off, police said ...
Two billion at risk from dengue in Asia: WHO
MANILA (AFP) - Nearly two billion people in the Asia-Pacific region will be at risk from dengue fever unless governments do more ...
Business
World stocks hit by US rescue doubts
LONDON (AFP) - Global equities were hit Tuesday by growing doubts about prospects for a US bailout package aimed at rescuing ...
PSMA accepts Rs81/40kg sugarcane support price
KARACHI - The Agriculture Department, Government of Sindh, has notified the new minimum support price of sugarcane at Rs81-40kg ...
Five factors set to trigger inflation far above target
KARACHI - There are five developments at international and domestic levels that would keep the inflation far above the target of ...
Gas loadshedding for industries in October
LAHORE - The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has issued notices of gas loadshedding to big industrial units owing to ...
Oil revenues boost by 19pc
KARACHI - PPL's oil (crude oil/condensate/NGL) revenues in FY08 registered a phenomenal increase of 143 per cent Year-on-Year as ...
Rating cut brings further gloom to stock market
KARACHI - Moody's verdict of downgrading of Pakistan's credit rating turned the ailing stock market further gloomy, leading to ...
Crude oil prices slip after historic one-day gain
LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices dipped slightly on Tuesday in choppy deals as traders banked profits, one day after New York ...
SArabia to invest in agriculture sector to ensure food supplies
LAHORE - The 'Pak-Saudi Investors Conference' is being held in Riyadh next month, as Saudi Arabia is contemplating to invest in ...
Wapda 'Vision 2025' to help solve power crisis
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has been dominating the national economic scene of Pakistan for well over 50 years ...
BSF urged to focus on agro-based industries
KARACHI (PR) - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) held a meeting with Badr Hashemi Country Program Managerr, SME ...
Politics
60 militants die in clashes
PESHAWAR (AFP) - Troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 60 Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, just days ...
Bid to 'kidnap' another Afghan diplomat foiled
Commercial Consular of the Afghan Consulate Noor Muhammad has submitted an application at Tehkal police station in Peshawar for ...
Body to devise plan to meet security threat
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government would provide all necessary resources to the law ...
Whither probe reports?
ISLAMABAD - Despite inflated claims by security officials of conducting thorough probe into the incidents of terrorism and making ...
PPP, 'Q' contacts abroad for change in Punjab
ISLAMABAD - It could be mere coincidence that Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi of the PML-Q is in US while PPP Co-Chairman President Asif ...
ECC meets to review economic situation
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) which met here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of ...
40pc share in Punjab cabinet for PPP
LAHORE - Following the decision by PPP and PML-N to keep the coalition intact in Punjab, the latter has agreed to give 40 per ...
UN seeks $17m to help Bajaur refugees
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for more than $17 million to help tens of ...
Progress made on Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline
NEW YORK - The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline has made significant headway and the foreign ministers of the two countries will meet ...
Psychiatric hearing is sought for Dr. Aafia
NEW YORK-Federal prosecuters in New York have asked a judge for a hearing to determine whether Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani ...
10 killed in Finnish school shooting
HELSINKI (AFP) - A young trainee chef went on a shooting rampage at a Finnish vocational school on Tuesday, mowing down at least ...
Entertainment
'Lakeview Terrace' earns top box-office take
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Dark thriller "Lakeview Terrace," starring Samuel L. Jackson as a cop who torments his neighbours, topped the ...
Pollution causes laryngitis
EVERYDAY exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, allergens, and air pollution may be the root of chronic cases of laryngitis, ...
Babies have a sense of rhythm
IT will be months before they talk, walk or even sit up. But at just a day old, babies have a strong sense of rhythm, say ...
Grannies' dance troupe charms Czech
OSTRAVA (Czech Republic) (AFP) - They are grandmothers or great-grandmothers with ample silhouettes and X-sized outfits, but this ...
One in two million
PULLED from the ocean to be served in a posh restaurant, this lobster could be forgiven for feeling a little blue. But his ...
Mars rover facing two-year trek
THE US space agency is to send its Mars rover Opportunity on a two-year trek to try to reach a crater called Endeavour. The ...
Islamabad
Senate committee wants removal of Jamali
ISLAMABAD - The sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports has asked for the removal of Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali ...
Sports ministry officials to visit PCB today
ISLAMABAD - The top officials of Federal Ministry of Sports including Secretary Muhammad Ashraf Khan and Joint Secretary Muhammad ...
Smuggling of goods ruins local industry
ISLAMABAD - The illegal import of goods from other countries, especially from neighbouring states, is having adverse effects on ...
12 indicted in making life attempts on Musharraf, others
RAWALPINDI - Anti Terrorism Court on Tuesday formally indicted the twelve persons in planning suicide attacks on former president ...
Lawyers observe Iftikhar Day
RAWALPINDI - Legal community Tuesday observed Iftikhar Day to express solidarity with the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...
Suicide incidents disturb people mentally
ISLAMABAD - The endless series of the deadly suicide attacks across the country has perplexed the people and they are left with ...
Venue shifted from Marriott Hotel
ISLAMABAD - World Tourism Day's venue has been shifted to the National Library, which was scheduled at destroyed Marriott Hotel ...
Minister takes notice of throwing acid on female teacher
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Law, Justice, Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs Farooq H Neak has taken a serious notice of ...
Karachi
WWF to provide biogas to 400 houses
KARACHI - Under the Indus for All Programme, WWF-Pakistan (World-wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan) will provide biogas to more than ...
Fake NICs being used to grab plots
KARACHI - A mafia uses fake National Identity Cards (NICs) in grabbing lands, bank loans and for various other lucrative ...
PFF demands abolishment of contract system
KARACHI - Despite the passage of several months to abolish the contract system, concerned provincial authorities have failed to ...
Loadshedding continues
KARACHI - Prolonged power outages continue across the City during the holy month of Ramazan on rotational basis of 4 hours ...
Action against sale of kids demanded
KARACHI - Due to persistent rise in poverty, people are forced to sell out their children because they find it almost impossible ...
'Iftikhar Day' observed in City
KARACHI - "The judges re-appointed through fresh oath have betrayed the movement launched for the independence of judiciary" said ...
Lahore
PCB inks Rs 750m deal with Dubai Sports City
LAHORE - The Pakistan cricket has found a home venue away from home in Dubai at a time when majority of the international teams ...
India series a relief for Pakistan
LAHORE - The green signal to the tentative Indian cricket team tour to Pakistan brings some relief for the cricket-starved ...
Ahmed shines in Ravi's win
LAHORE - Lahore-born Muhammad Ahmed, who used to play for KRL in Premier Soccer League, stole the limelight as Gulshan Ravi enter ...
Regar regaining AFC President's Cup
LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)'s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat congratulated Regar TadAZ's coach ...
Level one coaching courses at regional level
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is conducting 12 Level-one coaching courses in a succession, especially designed for Club ...
Ban on shopping bags to render 0.3 million jobless
LAHORE - In the wake of ban imposed on plastic bags by LHC, more than 78 factories manufacturing plastic bags are likely to be ...
LHC orders action against former DPO
LAHORE - Justice Khurshid Anwar Bhindar of the Lahore High Court has directed the regional police officer (RPO) Sheikhupura to ...
Lawyers have power to uproot PPP govt: Bar
LAHORE - The movement launched by the lawyers has the power to uproot the government led by Pakistan Peoples Party as they ...
Ansari opposes invitation to CJ by PBC members
LAHORE - Member Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) Hafiz Abdul Rahman Ansari through a letter has opposed eight members of the PBC who ...
Black coats observe Yaum-e-Iftikhar
LAHORE - Lawyers Tuesday observed 'Yaum-e-Iftikhar' with a pledge to stand by the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar ...
Expedite import of CNG buses: CM
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said the government has adopted a comprehensive strategy for providing ...
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