From the News, Nation, Dawn, Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, Frontier Post, Nawa-i-Waqt (Urdu) and Jang (Urdu) newspapers                                                                            

1 April, 2009

INTERNATIONAL NEWS  

POLITICAL

-          Tokyo (AFP) Japanese Premier Taro Aso on Tuesday said his government was drafting new stimulus measures aimed at pushing the world’s second-largest economy out of recession. (Daily Times, p-B5) 

-          Tokyo, March 31 (AFP) Japan’s parliament on Tuesday made a formal protest against North Korean plans to launch a rocket as early as the weekend, condemning what it described as a threat to peace in northeast Asia. (Dawn, p-14)

MISC

-          Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s unemployment rate hit a three-year high of 4.4 percent in February, the government said Tuesday, as the deepening recession tightened its grip on Asia’s largest economy. (Daily Times, p-B5)

-          Article (Reuters) Japan’s Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thoughts, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person’s brain activity and sends signals to the machine. (Daily times, p-B12)