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

5 October 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo ( Reuters) Former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa who was forced to deny he was drunk at a G7 news conference in February, has died, Tokyo police said Sunday (Daily Times, p- A9, The Frontier Post, p- 6, Jang, 3)

• (Article by Harumi Ozawa / AFP) In quake-prone Japan, preparation and wealth save lives (Dawn, p- 10)

• Tokyo (Reuters) Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara blamed behind-the-scenes political deals for the city’s failure to win the vote to host the 2016 Olympics (The Frontier Post, p- 10)