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

12 March, 2009

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

ECONOMIC 

-     Tokyo, March 11 (AFP) Japan’s economic outlook darkened further on Wednesday as bleak snapshot of business investment and renewed threat of deflation stoked fears that recession is far from over. (Dawn, p-10) 

MISC

-          Tokyo (Agencies) Japanese rescuers searched for a second day Wednesday for 16 South Korean and Indonesian sailors missing after a collision likely sunk their freighter, coastguard officials said. (The Frontier Post, p-5)