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 Saturday, September 05, 2009
Front Page
Sugar disappears from market
MUBASHIR HASSAN and ASHRAF JAVED LAHORE - Following courts decision fixing sugar price at Rs 40 per kg, the sugar virtually disappeared from the market on Friday after retailers stopped selling the commodity fearing punitive action from the government for not selling it at the prescribed rate. In ...
China concerned over US embassy expansion plan
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Expressing concern over expansion of American embassy in the federal capital, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan ...
Record promotions, big reshuffle in bureaucracy
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday promoted record number of 50 bureaucrats, majority of them from DMG ...
International
Himalayan town becomes focus of India-China dispute: report
NEW YORK - The Himalayan town of Tawang has become a tinderbox in relations between India and China as New Delhi build up its ...
Anti-Taliban strategy flawed: Premier Brown
LONDON (AFP/Reuters) - Britain and the US on Friday defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the ...
Nato strike hits heart of new strategy
KABUL (AFP) - An airstrike in northern Afghanistan that killed up to 90 people on Friday hit at the heart of plans for a ...
H1N1 has killed 2,837, but not more serious: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The pandemic H1N1 flu virus continues to cause widespread infection in many parts of the world but is not ...
EU says ready for confrontation with Iran
STOCKHOLM (Reuters/AFP) - The European Union said on Friday Iran had to choose between EU assistance for peaceful development of ...
Five dead in protests in Urumqi
URUMQI, China (AFP/Reuters) - Five people have died in massive protests against syringe attacks in the restive Chinese city of ...
Fury over Israeli plan for new settlments
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel will approve construction of West Bank settlement homes before it considers a freeze sought by ...
North Korea says close on uranium enrichment
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it was closer to a second way of making nuclear weapons, a move analysts saw as a ...
Christians asked to give birth to more children
Worried about the communitys dwindling population, church leaders in the Indian states of Kerala and Mizoram are encouraging ...
Palestinians forced to leave UAE
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian officials say many Palestinians have been forced to leave the United Arab Emirates in recent ...
Thousands mourn Indian politician
PULIVENDULA, India (AFP) - Tens of thousands of tearful mourners paid their respects Friday as the popular chief minister of ...
Iraq sends forces to Syrian border
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq began stationing thousands of extra police on the border with Syria this week in response to a spate of ...
Roddick, Querrey lead home charge
NEW YORK (AFP) - Hopes for a first home win in the men's singles at the US Open in six years were given a boost on Thursday with ...
Jankovic, Dementieva fall, Safina survives
NEW YORK (AFP) - Fourth seed Elena Dementieva and fifth seed Jelena Jankovic were upset victims Thursday at the US Open while ...
Size no obstacle to US teen Oudin
NEW YORK (AFP) - A sapling among the sequoias she may be but Melanie Oudin says it is not all about size. The 17-year-old ...
New Zealand embarrass Sri Lanka again in T20
COLOMBO (AFP) - Daniel Vettori's New Zealand recorded their second Twenty20 success over Sri Lanka in three days with a 22-run ...
World Cup qualifying brings hotseats to boiling point
PARIS (AFP) - Diego Maradona, Carlos Quieroz and George Burley were rarely spoken of in the same breath as players, but they are ...
Business
SBP unveils new scheme for cotton ginning factories modernisation
KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan on Friday announced a new financing facilities scheme for cotton ginners with a view to ...
Saudi airline plots a catch-up course
AIR passengers in Saudi Arabia make many of the same complaints as travellers everywhere: long waiting times, cancelled ...
Pakistan at Yarn Expo
BEIJING (APP) - Pakistan was among other eight countries that participated in the 5th edition of Yarn Expo held at the Shanghai ...
Punjab invites Malaysian firm to build 160,000 housing units
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Punjab government has invited a Malaysian firm 'Renexus to process its proposal of building 160,000 ...
Kalabagh Dam construction demanded
LAHORE - Chairman Pakistan Traders and Industrial Association Front (PIAF) Irfan Qaiser has urged the government to start mega ...
Pak-UK bilateral trade enhancing 12pc every year
KARACHI - Pak-U.K. bilateral trade is enhancing with ratio of 12 percent every year. London recognizes the commercial potential ...
More foreign inflows help KSE cross 9,000 barrier
KARACHI - The KSE 100-index crossed the 9,000 psychological barrier with healthy volumes on the last trading day of the week as ...
VAT in consultation with all stakeholders
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Before the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT), a complete consciences would be developed among all the ...
Senate committee summons PSM chief
ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Industries and Production Friday summoned Chairman Pakistan Steel Mills, Moin Aftab ...
Gold glitters at Rs31,000 a tola
LAHORE - The price of gold (24k) has jumped to a record high of over Rs26,317 per 10 grams or Rs 30,664 per tola on the back of ...
Politics
A law unto themselves
ISLAMABAD - Far removed from the drones of the tribal areas, it is right here in the Capital that US nationals are behaving with ...
Centre agrees to pay war cost, hydel profit to NWFP
ISLAMABAD:- The government has finally announced to compensate the NWFP for costs incurred in the war against terror and the Rs ...
Kashmiris reject NAs autonomy
ISLAMABAD - The Kashmiri leadership on Friday announced their full support to Pakistans efforts for the revival of stalled ...
Zardari assured Waziristan action: Brown
LONDON-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday disclosed that in a recent meeting at 10 Downing Street President Asif Ali ...
Govt here to stay: Gilani
Javed Mehmood/Zamir Sheikh KARACHI-Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that govt had won elections and will complete ...
Reforms body opposes new province
ISLAMABAD - Constitutional Reforms Committee in its meeting on Friday afternoon supported the move that the decision regarding ...
Civilians among 90 die in Nato airstrike
KUNDUZ (AFP/Reuters) - Nato aircraft opened fire on hijacked fuel trucks in northern Afghanistan before dawn on Friday, killing ...
Operation will continue,says COAS
SWAT - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Friday remarked that the ongoing military operation in Swat was in right ...
Minister for mills nationalisation
ISLAMABAD (APP) - In a move to restrict profiteering and hoarding of sugar, Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi ...
Pakistan more important than Afghanistan: Biden
NEW YORK - Vice President Joe Biden has argued an expanded US presence in Afghanistan might undermine a more critical objective - ...
Khosa flip-flops on LBs
KARACHI - Attorney-General of Pakistan Sardar Latif Khosa Friday flip-flopped on the Local Bodies term after presidential ...
Delhi may not give more info
INDIAN Home Minister P Chidamabaram has told a private television channel that he may not respond to further demands from the ...
Govt to impose VAT from next FY: Tarin
ISLAMABAD - Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin Friday expressed governments resolve to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) during the next ...
India hands over body of Pakistani
WAGHA (Online) - The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday handed over the dead body of Muhammad Jamil, a Pakistani ...
Women thrashed in Turbat protest
QUETTA - Female activists of Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) - Azad were allegedly baton charged by the Frontier Corps ...
'Innocent' man smells freedom after 38 years
KARACHI - Additional District Judge (South) on Friday released a murder accused Saeed-ul-Haq after 38 years, as he was found ...
Indian court lifts ban on Jaswants book
AHMEDABAD (PPI) - The Gujarat High Court on Friday ordered the state government to lift the ban on Jaswant Singhs book on ...
Pre-dawn attack kills two soldiers
PESHAWAR - Two personnel of Frontier Constabulary (FC) were killed when armed militants attacked a police van in the outskirts of ...
PIA suspends Quetta night flights
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended its Ramazan service of Karachi to Quetta, Turbat and ...
Partnership with Pakistan growing: US
WASHINGTON (APP) - The United States is fostering a growing, sustained and trusted partnership with Pakistan, as the two ...
Rate of IDPs' return slows down, says UN
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is shifting the focus of its humanitarian services in Pakistans north-west from hosting ...
Entertainment
Salma Hayek throws diva fit
WHAT Salma Hayek wants, Salma gets Mrs. Gazillionaire showed up to the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night with a huge group with ...
Chris Brown's mother loves Rihanna like a daughter
CHRIS Browns mother loves Rihanna like a daughter. Joyce Hawkins hasnt seen the Umbrella singer since her son assaulted her in ...
Taylor joins Jacksons at funeral service
ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor joined Michael Jacksons three children as they said a final goodbye to their father in the early hours ...
N Koreas 'Hotel of Doom' gets a face-lift
SEOUL (Reuters) - A towering North Korean hotel which Esquire magazine once dubbed the worst building in the history of mankind ...
Crowe tells writer to get on bike
RUSSELL Crowe challenged an Australian newspaper columnist to a cycle duel after she mocked a picture of him smoking and eating ...
Thin thighs may equal a shorter life
NEW research finds that women with slimmer legs are at greater risk of heart disease and premature death Could many of those ...
Islamabad
Registration of seven stall-holders annulled
RAWALPINDI - Chairman of Chief Minister Punjab Task Force for Price Control (CMPTFPC) SA Hameed along with District Coordination ...
Safety measures for boat riders at Rawal Dam ordered
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman, Capital Development Authority (CDA), Imtiaz Inayat Elahi Friday ordered the concerned authorities ...
Ord yet to be implemented
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Health is apparently playing in hands of the powerful infant formula milk manufactures, which made ...
New QAU VC appointment demanded
ISLAMABAD - The teaching faculty of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has demanded the appointment of new vice-chancellor at the ...
RDA top slots being run by low-cadre officials
RAWALPINDI - The provincial government has been running the affairs of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) in a casual ...
Seminar on Gilgit Baltistan
ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Sungi would jointly organize seminar on ...
Sub committee gives clean chit to Bajwa, Mansoor
ISLAMABAD - The sub committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Sports found cleared Secretary Pakistan Hockey ...
Karachi
Distribution of land among farmers in limbo
KARACHI - At least 15,901 acres of the identified state land to be distributed among the farmers free of cost currently falls in ...
Road safety edu programme starts
KARACHI - The Road Safety unit of TCD has started the road safety education programme through demonstration and launching films, ...
First Halal search engine for Muslims launched
KARACHI - The Muslims from all over the world can search the worldwide Web safely without coming across the content that might ...
DNA testing facility in City demanded
KARACHI (PPI) - Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister Ms Sharmila Faruqui has asked Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah to provide ...
KESC asked to avoid outages in Ramazan
KARACHI (PPI) - The Members of Provincial Committee on KESC constituted by Governor Sindh and Chief Minister have directed KESC ...
Duty towards parents
In Surah Bani Israel, verse 23, Allah after exhorting mankind to worship Him alone, says, ...And that ye be kind to parents, ...
Karachi overcome spirited Quetta
KARACHI - Karachi juniors were found wanting in scoring goals but still they managed to beat Quetta by low 3-0 margin in the MCB ...
Lahore
Detail record of plot distribution sought
LAHORE - Chief Justice Lahore High Court Friday directed president Aitchison Housing Society (AHS) and registrar Co-Operative ...
Case registered against Meera, other relatives
LAHORE - Defence-A police on Friday registered a theft case against film star Meera, her parents, her uncle, brother and ...
Solid steps afoot to provide potable water to masses
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that provision of potable water to the masses is the priority of the ...
PML-N not a friendly Opp
LAHORE - PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said his party is not a friendly opposition rather it the responsible opposition toiling ...
Protest rallies against POL price-hike
LAHORE -Jamaat-e-Islami organised rallies and demonstrations across the country on Friday to protest against price hike, growing ...
Vulture Awareness Day today
LAHORE - International Vulture Awareness Day will be observed across the globe including Pakistan on Saturday (today) with the ...
Intikhab denies differences with Miandad
LAHORE - Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam has played down the reports pointing out differences between him and team's batting ...
Younis hints at forming players association
LAHORE - Younis Khan aims to launch a players' association in Pakistan and has already contacted the Federation of International ...
Farhat fined half a million by PCB
LAHORE - Pakistan's discarded Test opener Imran Farhat has been fined Rs 500,000 by the Pakistan Cricket Board for returning to ...
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