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

21 November 2009

Local News

Economic

• Rawalpindi (By Israr Ahmed) Ambassador of Japan Chihiro Atsumi Friday said that modern technologies would be provided to Pakistan to boost the bilateral trade relation and Japan would not leave Pakistan alone in the prevailing bad economic situation (The Nation, p- 14)

International News

Political

•  (Article by A.G. Noorani) Japan and the US (Dawn, p- 7)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s central bank left its super-low interest rates unchanged on Friday as the government declared for the first time in more than three years that Asia’s biggest economy is in a phase of deflation (Daily Times, p- B)