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

2 February 2010

International News

Political

•  Tokyo (AFP) Japanese ruling party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa said Monday public prosecutors had questioned him for a second time in a political funds scandal that has rocked the centre-left government (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• Tokyo (Agencies) The global economy may be on the mend, but times are still tough for the masses of homeless, jobless people in Tokyo, where the only meal of the day is often a bowl of rice handed out by charities (The Frontier Post, p- 6)