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

26 August 2009

International News

Political

• SEOUL (AFP) North Korea has invited a US Special envoy to visit Pyongyang for talks on ending the standoff about its nuclear weapons programme, South Korean media reports said Tuesday (Daily Times, p- A9)

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japan heads for elections Sunday that look set to shift the political landscape of the world’s second largest economy, with a centre-left party ending half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule (The Frontier Post, p- 5)

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, his ruling block facing likely defeat in an election less than a week away, sought to lure back voters with a warning on Tuesday that a big opposition win risked one-party “despotism”. (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)