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

4 November 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) A majority of residents in Okinawa say they want the United States to move its controversial air base off the southern Japanese island, or even out of the country entirely, according to a poll on Tuesday (Daily Times, p- A9)

• Tokyo (NNI) Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has confirmed that the government of his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will not renew the mission refueling military vessels in the India Ocean in support of the US led conflict in Afghanistan (The Frontier Post, p- 2)