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

20 November 2009

International News

Political

•  (Article by Michael Scherer) Obama’s Asia trip: too focused on common ground? (Daily Times, p- A8)

• BEIJING (By Chris Buckley / Reuters) Barack Obama’s first presidential trip to Asia was also his first big step in recasting US ties with a region in flux, and showed this will demand patience and compromise from a superpower used to pushing its weight around (Dawn, p- 10)

MISC

• Tokyo (AFP) Smoke rose on Thursday from the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak (Dawn, p- 11)