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

8 November 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Saturday, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas (The News, p- 11)

• KADENA (AFP) Thousand of residents of Japan’s southern island of Okinawa on Saturday staged a protest against the presence of the US military on the eve of a major rally against a controversial airbase (Daily Times, p- A9)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Saturday Tokyo plans to increase aid to Myanmar gradually while hailing Washington’s latest efforts to engage the military-ruled country (Daily Times, p- A5)