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

18 August 2009

Local News

Political

• Islamabad (Photo) PRCS Chairman Prof. Dr. Basharat Jazbi exchanging views with Japanese Ambassador Chihiro Atsumi at the PRCS National Headquarters (Pakistan Observer, p- 9)

International News

Economic

•  Tokyo (AFP) Japan on Monday became the latest major economy to escape from recession, lifting hopes that a fledgling global recovery is taking hold thanks to massive pump-priming efforts (The Nation, p- 17, Daily Times, p- B5)

• LONDON (AFP) The yen rose to its highest levels in about two weeks against the dollar and the euro on Monday as falling share prices boosted demand for less risky investments, analysts said (The Nation, p- 17)

MISC 

• Tokyo (APP) A Japanese man stabbed himself in the stomach outside Japan’s parliament building on Monday, police and ambulance services said, in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• Tokyo (AP) Two strong earthquakes hit between Japan’s southernmost islands and the coast of Taiwan on Monday both briefly prompting tsunami warnings, the Japanese Meterological Agency said (The News, p- 11)