Friday, February 10, 2012
- 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
- CJ takes suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse
- India, Pakistan trade can reach $10 bn by 2015: CII
The Nation in print for Friday, September 25, 2009
Front Page
Fund to rebuild conflict areas established
NEW YORK - In an unprecedented show of support for Pakistan, major economic powers on Thursday agreed on the formation of a multi-donor trust fund to help the country build its tribal areas, which have suffered greatly due to the ongoing fight against militant. President Barack Obama, President ...
UN resolution aims at nuclear-free world
UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council, the world bodys power centre, Thursday unanimously adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution ...
Ambush on peacemakers' convoy kills 19
BANNU - At least 19 persons including 11 tribal elders and eight militants were killed in clashes between Qaumi Lashkar and ...
International
US cool on Iran offer of nuclear experts talks
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United States Thursday reacted coolly to an offer from Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to set up ...
Tehran rejects Western allegations as 'untrue'
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Irans UN mission on Thursday rejected as totally untrue allegations by the leaders of France and Britain ...
Iraq launches manhunt after 16 Al-Qaeda prisoners escape
TIKRIT (AFP) - Iraqi authorities launched a manhunt Thursday after an apparent inside job saw 16 Al-Qaeda members, including five ...
Three police gunned down
Mosul (AFP) - Three policemen were gunned down in separate incidents in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, a ...
Washington opts against seeking anti-terror 'preventive detention'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Barack Obama administration has decided not to seek new legislation to create a system of preventive ...
Rice urges patience in Afghanistan
NEW YORK - A hasty retreat of combat forces from Afghanistan would increase the threat to US national security, said former US ...
Fighting flares in north Yemen, 50 killed
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni government troops were locked in heavy fighting on Thursday with Shia rebels in northern Yemen where at ...
Afghan indicted for conspiracy
NEW YORK - An Afghan man arrested in a U.S. terror probe was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass ...
Karzai skips UN talks
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is not attending this years UN General Assembly, Afghan officials confirmed ...
Israeli ex-PM to appear in court on graft charges
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israels former prime minister Ehud Olmert is due to appear in court for the first time on Friday after his ...
Indian nuke tests 'completely successful': top govt scientist
MUMBAI (AFP) - Indias chief military scientist on Thursday dismissed doubts about the success of the countrys nuclear tests in ...
Terror warning rattles Germany as Merkel eyes new term
BERLIN (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel looked set to sail to a second term in the weekend election in Germany, but terror ...
Parnell, de Villiers revive SA campaign
CENTURION (South Africa) (AFP) - South Africa bounced back into contention for 2009 ICC Champions Trophy glory with a five-wicket ...
US Open champ Clijsters to play all Grand Slams in 2010
TESSENDERLO (Belgium) (AFP) - US Open champion Kim Clijsters said Thursday she will play the four Grand Slams in 2010, as well as ...
Woods seeks to salvage season with pot-of-gold payoff
ATLANTA (Georgia) (AFP) - Tiger Woods gets one final chance to make a big splash on the 2009 season as he is one of five players ...
Business
Economic crisis forces 17,000 expats to leave Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - About 17,000 expatriate workers have cancelled their residence permits and left Kuwait in the first half of ...
Investment led boom in local stock market
KARACHI (APP) - The stock market has attracted about $ 225 million during one and a half month and more foreign investment will ...
Economy on positive growth for last one year
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The countrys economy has been gradually moving towards building basis on sound footings as the economic ...
Textile exports down by 8.36pc
ISLAMABAD - The export of textile products has declined by 8.36 per cent in the first two months (July-August) of the current ...
Asian, European stocks drop before G20 summit
HONG KONG / LONDON (AFP) - Asias markets were mostly lower on Thursday as dealers followed a fall on Wall Street, after the US ...
Exports of food group down 31pc
KARACHI - The exports of food group have declined by 31 per cent during July-August of current financial year 2009-10. The total ...
Wheat crop shows rise by 14pc this year
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, Asias third-largest wheat producer, has harvested a bumper crop of 24 million tonnes of the grain ...
Indus Motors likely to post Rs1.17b PAT
KARACHI - Indus Motors (INDU) is expected to announce its annual results for FY09 on September 29, 2009. The company is expected ...
Forex reserves rise to $14.48b
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistans foreign exchange reserves rose to $14.48 billion in the week that ended on Sept. 19 compared with ...
Kerry-Lugar Bill's passage jacks up KSE, gains 277 points
KARACHI - Positive developments after Eid vacations favoured the local bourse on Thursday as the KSE-100 index added notable 277 ...
Politics
Wattoo, PSMA, et al in the dock
LAHORE A division bench of Lahore High Court Thursday issued contempt notices to Minister of Industries & Production Manzoor ...
Sugar vanishes from markets
LAHORE-White refined sugar vanished from the open market across the Punjab on Thursday, as the shopkeepers have stopped selling ...
US Senate votes to triple aid to Pakistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters/AFP) - The US Senate on Thursday approved compromise legislation to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to ...
US survivor of 26/11 embraces Islam
NEW YORK - An American, who survived the terrorist attack in the Indian city of Mumbai last year, resisted hate in favour of ...
Nine states urged to ratify N-test ban treaty
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - A ministerial conference on Thursday pressed the nine states which have yet to ratify the Comprehensive ...
Hafiz Saeed petitions LHC
LAHORE - Head of a banned religious organisation, Jammat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, on Thursday moved two constitutional ...
Bomb attack kills Afghan policemen
KANDAHAR (AFP) - A roadside bomb tore through an Afghan police vehicle killing three policemen and wounding two others in a ...
Ottoman dynasty member dies
The eldest member of the Ottoman dynasty, Ertugrul Osman Osm-anoglu, died at 97 on Wednesday evening in Istanbul, reported ...
Taliban using base in Pakistan for attacks: NYT
NEW YORK-Senior Taliban leaders, showing what a media report calls a surprising level of sophistication and organisation, are ...
No smooth sailing for Nawaz in NA-123
LAHORE - Following the decision by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to allow fresh candidates to file nomination papers for ...
Balochistan minister fired; another quits in protest
QUETTA-Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani has sacked Provincial Minister of Food Ali Madad Jattak from ...
PPPs faltering coalition
ISLAMABAD A serious crisis is in the making for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)led coalition government due to the growing ...
NAB, Punjab reports reveal hold of cartel
ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Thursday submitted a report regarding the sugar crisis that surfaced two ...
Drone levels Afghans NW home; 9 dead
PESHAWAR (Agencies) - A US drone killed nine people after slamming into a house belonging to an Afghan in North Waziristan late ...
Entertainment
Prospects for permanent lunar base get a boost
NASAS plans to establish a human outpost on the moon have received a surprise boost following the discovery of large amounts of ...
Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon head MTV Europe shortlist
LONDON (Reuters) - Lady Gaga and Kings of Leon led the nominations for Novembers MTV Europe Music Awards with five nominations ...
Eva Longoria back to school
EVA Longoria Parker says she is going back to school to learn about her Mexican roots. The 34-year-old Desperate Housewives ...
Amy Winehouse spits on bully
AMY Winehouse screamed and spat at a young teenager she believed was bullying her goddaughter. The livid 'Rehab star reportedly ...
Answers.com launches website
SAN DIEGO, California, (AFP) - Answers.com on Wednesday debuted a website that merges the power of crowds with knowledge from ...
New Michael Jackson single to hit airwaves Oct 12
LONDON (Reuters) - A new Michael Jackson single called This Is It will hit the airwaves on October 12, two weeks before it is ...
Islamabad
Twin cities come out of Eid holidays pleasure
ISLAMABAD (APP) - With culmination of Eidul Fitr holidays, residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad resumed their life activities ...
'Be a citizen ambassador' campaign launched
ISLAMABAD (APP) - As world leaders from 192 United Nations Member States converge on New York for the 64th session of the ...
Police force being trained to counter terrorism: IGP
RAWALPINDI - Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tariq Saleem Dogar on Thursday said that terrorism is a big challenge for the ...
1,443 tickets issued for rash driving
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Traffic Police in its special campaign against one-wheeling and car racing issued 1,443 traffic ...
Residents demand closure of gate to Kachi Abadi
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Residents of government quarters at sector G-7/2 have demanded the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for ...
Swine flu patient at PIMS
ISLAMABAD - A 25-year-old foreign returned Pakistani national admitted to the isolation ward of Pakistan Institute of Medical ...
Pakistan squash team off to Denmark
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's five-man contingent left for Denmark to take part in the 22nd World Open Team Squash Championship on ...
National
England v Sri Lanka, Wanderers
Not many are reckoning England having much of a chance against Sri Lanka in today's game. Kumar Sangakkara's men beat South ...
Karachi
Pak among 17 countries facing water shortage
KARACHI - Scientists have warned the government against its plan which is envisaged by the international organisations to cope ...
PPP flays TI report about corruption
KARACHI - Lashing out at the Transparency International (TI) for publishing a report about the rampant corruption in Pakistan, ...
Religious scholars, parties demand action against ANP
KARACHI - Leaders of religious parties and religious scholars on Thursday vehemently denounced the role of ANP leadership to ...
Govt comments sought in SHC staff salary case
KARACHI (PPI) - Sindh High Court Thursday granted three days time as last chance to Sindh Government to file comments on petition ...
'Eid Milan' reception at varsity
KARACHI - An Eid Milan reception was held at the Karachi University campus on Thursday. An official said that the party was ...
Childhood diarrhoea - death threat for kids
KARACHI (APP)- The World Health Organisation (WHO), in consultation with global experts, has identified priorities for research ...
Masood Chik receives ICC Centenary Award
KARACHI - Former Pakistani first class cricketer Masood Akhtar 'Chik', who played for Karachi and headed the USA Cricket Board ...
Lahore
Chapter of five more desperados closed
LAHORE - The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police gunned down five gangsters in yet another staged encounter, which took place ...
Power outages hit Lahorites again
LAHORE - After enjoying an interim relief for three days on the eve of Eid holidays, the miseries of people are multiplying yet ...
Medical entry test percentage raised to 50
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said the present government, by increasing health budget by 37 per cent, has ...
Delay in IT Centre causes Rs1b loss to govt
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said an IT Park equipped with the latest facilities will be set up for the ...
President foreign trip for money damaging countrys image: JI
LAHORE - Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Liaquat Baloch has said that President Zardaris current foreign trip for funds was ...
NAB report about Sharifs baseless: Senator Pervaiz
LAHORE - Senator Pervaiz Rashid has maintained that the report of the National Accountability Bureau about involvement of the ...
Newborn's abduction: CJ takes notice of police failure
LAHORE - Chief Justice Lahore High Court Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Thursday ordered police to recover a newborn baby ...
Younis set to star in India encounter
LAHORE - Pakistan's regular skipper Younis Khan, who was recovering from a finger injury, has been cleared for their next ...
Players charged up for India clash
LAHORE - Yawar Saeed, Pakistan team manager, sees the players upbeat ahead of their Champions Trophy match against India. ...
Pakistan to play Australia ahead of England
LAHORE - Pakistan will play Australia in England before going in for a full summer series against England next year. England ...
PCB opposes two-tier calendar
LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has made it clear that it would not support the proposal to have a two-tier international ...
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