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

29 August 2009

Local News

Culture

• (Article by Zafar Bakhtawari) Japanese envoy’s farewell event (The Nation, p- 4)

International News

Political

•  (Article by : CSM) Is this Japan’s turn for revolution (The Nation, p- 10)

• Tokyo (By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura / AFP) Japan’s politicians have been trying to drum up election fever this summer, but followers of a growing craze are more excited about strongmen who have been dead for centuries-samurai warriors (Dawn, p- 11)

•  (Article by Kosuke Takahashi) Japan on the brink of a new era (Daily Times, p- A8)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s unemployment rate rose to a record high of 5.7 percent in July as companies shed workers to cope with the fallout from the worst recession in decades, data showed Friday (The Nation, p- 16, Daily Times, p- B5)