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

9 February 2010

Local News

Culture

• Islamabad (Metro Events) The embassy of Japan in collaboration with PNCA is organizing a Japan children art competition and speech contest with the title of Pakistan-Japan friendship fest 2010 on February 10 (The News, p- 14)

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Monday he supported his party’s secretary general who days earlier avoided being indicted over a political funds scandal (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan Airlines, after declaring bankruptcy last month, appeared set on Monday to keep its current tie-up with American Airlines and end talks to defect to the world’s biggest carrier Delta (Daily Times, p- B5)

MISC

• Tokyo (APP) Eighty five percent Japanese are in favor of capital punishment (Daily Express, p- 10)