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

24 October 2009

Local News

Economic

• Karachi (Staff Report) A delegation of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a government entity compromising of Shozo Kawasaki, Shinya Nakamura and Tetsuro Izawa visited Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry for gathering of data to prepare feasibility to cooperate with Pakistan in order to develop the communication network viz. ports, roads and railway track directly connected and enroute to Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asian Republics (Daily Times, p- B3)

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AP) Japan’s new government appeared to bow to intensifying pressure from visiting top US military officials, saying Friday it supports keeping a major US marine airfield on the southern island of Okinawa (The News, p- 10)

• Tokyo (By Kyoko Hasegawa) The US-Japan security alliance has been strained as Tokyo’s new centre-left leaders, in a row over a US military base, make good on their promise to be less subservient to Washington, analysts say (Dawn, p- 10)