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

14 July 2009

International News

Political

•  Tokyo (Reuters) Prime Minister Taro Aso is expected to call an election for parliament’s lower house on August 30 despite forecasts that his long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner are set to lose (Dawn, p- 11)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, reeling from a key poll defeat, has drawn the battle lines for an August snap election that could herald a major political upheaval in the world’s number two economy (Dawn, p- 3)

• Tokyo (AP) Japan passed a law on Monday that would allow children to receive organ transplants for the first time, reversing a ban that doomed many young patients or forced them to seek medical care abroad (Dawn, p- 12)