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

8 March, 2009

LOCAL NEWS  

POLITICAL

-          Islamabad (Our Staff Reporter) President Asif Ali Zardari will head the meeting of Friends of Democratic Pakistan in Tokyo on April 17, to press the donors to assist his country financially in this critical juncture. (The Nation, p-12; The News, p-9)  

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

ECONOMIC 

-     Tokyo (Reuters) Japan plans to extend curbs on stock short selling beyond the end of March, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, but the news did little to halt a 3.5 percent fall in the Nikkei share average. (Daily Times, p-B5)