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

31 July 2009

International News

Economic

• Tokyo (By Irfan Siddique) Pakistan has not yet received one billion dollar aid from Japan which was announced in Friends of Pakistan Conference held in Tokyo (Daily Jang, p- 8)

• Tokyo (AP) Japan’s factory output rose for the fourth straight month in June as hopeful manufacturers boosted production to meet an uptick in global demand from depressed levels (Daily Times, p- B5)