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

1st October 2009

Local News

Political

• Islamabad ( Staff Reports/Photos) Japan celebrates Self-Defence Forces Day (Daily Times, p- B1, Dawn, p- 15, The Nation, p- 14, Daily Jang, p- 8, Daily Nawa-i-Waqt, p- 12)

MISC

• Islamabad (APP) Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Azam Khan Swati Wednesday said Japan and Pakistan could be future partners in the field of Science and Technology (Pakistan Observer, p- 10, The Nation, p- 15)

 
International News

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s factory output rose for a sixth straight month in August, the longest unbroken expansion in 12 years, as Asia’s biggest economy limps out of its worst slump in decades, data showed Wednesday (Daily Times, p-B5)

• Tokyo (AFP) The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development urged Japan Wednesday to keep up its emergency stimulus measures to avoid stopping a tentative economic recovery in its tracks (The Nation, p- 17)

MISC

• Tokyo (AFP) A combo of an employee of a Japanese company demonstrating a new robotic product that changes from a bed (L) into a wheelchair ( R ) at an exhibition on Wednesday (Dawn, p- 11)