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

9 October 2009

International News

Political  

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japan’s new prime minister will seek to keep periodically fraught ties with China and South Korea on track at weekend summits, avoiding rows that could hurt economic links and pitching his idea of an East Asia regional grouping (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s current account surplus grew 10.4 percent in August from a year earlier as exports fell at a slower pace than imports, official data showed Thursday (Daily Times, p- B5)