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

16 July 2009

Local News

Political

•  Lahore (Staff Report) Japanese Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Mr. Motohide Yoshikawa held meetings with former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif  (Daily Times, p- A3, The News, p-12, The Post, p- A2, Daily Express, p- 8, Nawa-i-Waqt, p- 12, Jang, p- 8, Khabrain, p- 1, Jinnah, p-1)

• Karachi: The government of Japan extended a grant of $93,848 (approx Rs 7.6 million) to the Al-Mustafa Medical Centre in Karachi under the scheme of the grant assistance for grassroots human security projects, on July 15 (Dawn, p- 18)