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

19 August 2009

Local News

Political

• Islamabad (News Desk) Allama Inayat Ali Shakir hosted a farewell luncheon in honour of Mr. Akira Mizutani, the Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Japan, Islamabad (Nawa-i-Waqt, p- 3)

International News

Political

•  Tokyo (By Linda Sieg / Reuters) The influence of Japan’s master political strategist Ichiro Ozawa on everything from economic policies to diplomacy could increase if, as seems likely, the opposition Democratic Party he once led wins an Aug 30 election  (Dawn, p-10)

• Tokyo (Agencies) Campaigning has formally begun in Japan ahead of a general election that could see a rare change of power (The Frontier Post, p- 5)