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

5 March, 2009

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

POLITICAL

-          Tokyo (Agencies) Japan’s opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa on Wednesday dismissed calls for his resignation a day after a close aide was arrested in a political donations scandal. (The Frontier Post, p-5)  

ECONOMIC 

-     Tokyo (Agencies) The dollar rose against the yen and the euro in Asia Wednesday as fears mounted about the weakness of the European and Japanese economies, dealers said. (The Frontier Post, p-8)