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

2 November 2009

Local News

 Economic

• Karachi (APP) Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin presided over a meeting and reviewed progress on various decisions for the promotion and strengthening of economic relations between Pakistan and Japan, the Minister Economic at Pakistan Embassy in Japan, Iftikhar Babar informed APP on Sunday(The Nation, p- )

International News

Political

• Tokyo (APP) Japan’s foreign minister will meet his US counterpart on Friday for talks expected to focus on a row over the reorganization of US military bases in Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• OMUTA (Agencies) Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth  (The Frontier Post, p- 6)

• TAIPEI (APP) Taiwan and Japan were urged to hold high-level dialogue and strike a free trade agreement despite the lack of diplomatic ties, reports here said Sunday (The Frontier Post, p- 8, Pakistan Observer, p- 7)