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

26 September 2009

International News

Political

•  Tokyo (Agencies) Japan on Friday launched a probe into alleged decades-old secret military pacts with the United States, including one allowing US nuclear-armed ships to visit despite Tokyo’s ban on atomic weapons (Daily Times, p- A9, Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• Tokyo (AFP) The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s only cities to have been hit with atom bombs, on Friday hailed a UN resolution vowing to rid the planet of nuclear weapons (Dawn, p- 12)

Economic

• New York (Reuters) The dollar fell to a 7-1/2- month low beneath the key 90-yen level on Friday after the G 20 pledged to continue emergency stimulus spending until a recovery takes hold, suggesting US interest rates would remain very low (The News, p- 18)