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

7 August 2009

Local News

Political

• Islamabad (Staff Report) Global Peace Pioneers (GPP) , a non-governmental organization, on Thursday exhibited on its premises 150 posters, photographs, paintings and cards showing the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and August 9 in 1945 (Daily Times, p- B1, The Nation, p- 13, The Frontier Post, p- 9, Pakistan Observer, p- 11)

International News

Political

• HIROSHIMA (AP) Hiroshima’s mayor urged global leaders on Thursday to back president Barack Obama’s call to abolish nuclear weapons as Japan marked the 64th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack (Dawn, p- 12)

• HIROSHIMA (Reuters) Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party, which has a good shot at winning power in a general election this month, said on Thursday it backed US President Barack Obama’s call to rid the world of nuclear arms (Daily Times, p- A9, The News, p- 10, Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• (Article by ERIC FREED) Why remember atomic bombs (The Nation, p- 10)

• HIROSHIMA (Photo by AP) A woman offers prayers as she releases a paper lantern in the Motoyasu River against the backdrop of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Western Japan on Thursday. Hiroshima’s mayor urged global leaders to back President Barack Obama’s call to abolish nuclear weapons as Japan marked the 64th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack (Daily Times, p- A12)