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

7 February 2010

Local News

Economic

• Karachi (Staff Report) Japan is honouring its pledge of $ 1 billion assistance to Pakistan made in April 2009 at the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Conference in Tokyo and has already disbursed $130 million (The News, p- 15)

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japanese naval ships returned home on Saturday at the close of an eight-year refueling mission in support of US-led military operations in Afghanistan, as strains persist in the US-Japan alliance (Daily Times, p- A5)