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

3 March, 2009

LOCAL NEWS  

MISC

-          Karachi (APP) A lecture was delivered here on Monday in connection with the Japanese Girls Day Festival. (The Nation, p-3)

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

POLITICAL

-          Article (By Matthew Partridge) A Japanese lesson for Afghanistan. (Daily Times, p-A8) 

ECONOMIC 

-     Tokyo (Agencies) New automobiles sales in Japan plunged 32.2 percent last month from a year earlier in the face of a severe recession in Asia’s largest economy, an industry association reported Monday. (The Frontier Post, p-8)  

MISC

-          Islamabad (APP) Pakistan’s new envoy to Japan Moor Muhammad Jadmani on Monday presented his credentials to Emperor of Japan. (The News, p-11)