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

21 July 2009

International News
Political

• Tokyo (Reuters: Article by Linda Sieg) Reports of Japan ruling party demise exaggerated (Dawn, p- 10)

Misc

• WASHINGTON (Reuters) The number of  people 65 and older around the world will more than double from 506 million to 1.3 billion by 2040, according to a US Census Bureau report (Dawn, p- 11)

• BANGKOK (AP) Millions of people across Asia will witness the longest total solar eclipse that will happen this century, as vast swaths of India and China, the entire city of Shanghai and southern Japanese islands are plunged into darkness on Wednesday for about five minutes (Dawn, p- 11)