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

21 August 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) They are highly educated, mostly male and almost always wear grey suits, and now they are in the cross-hairs of the man who hopes to become Japan’s next prime minister: government bureaucrats (Dawn, p- 10)

• Tokyo (AFP) A small radioactive leak was detected at a Japanese nuclear power plant after a strong earthquake struck the region last week, the operator said on Thursday (Dawn, p- 11)