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

2 August 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (Agencies) Prime Minister Taro Aso kicked off a campaigning tour ahead of this month’s general election Saturday by focusing on the issue of kidnappings of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents during the Cold War (The Frontier Post, p- 5)

Economic

• CHICAGO (AFP) Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co has recalled 440,000 vehicles in the United States due to a defect in the airbag that killed one person and injured six others (The News, p- 17)