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

17 July 2009

Local News

Political

•  Islamabad : Corrigendum (Daily Times, p- A3)

• Rawalpindi (Photo) Japan’s Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Yoshikawa talking to Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Tariq Majid at Joint Staff Headquarters on Thursday (The Nation, p- 14, Nawa-i-Waqt, p- 1, Daily Express, p- 3, Daily Ausaf, p- 8)

International News

Political

• Tokyo (Agencies) Pressure mounted on Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday after ruling party lawmakers called for a meeting to debate the party’s ailing fortunes at which his harshest critics are expected to seek his resignation (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• Tokyo (AFP) The next head of the UN atomic watchdog said on Thursday that the cases of Iran and North Korea were “very different” because Tehran has not withdrawn from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (Daily Times, p- A5)