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

16 January 2010

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan on Friday ended a naval refueling mission that has supported the US-led military effort in Afghanistan since 2001 as the centre-left government flexes its muscles in its ties with Washington   (Daily Times, p- A5)

• Tokyo (AFP) Prosecutors arrested a lawmaker from Japan’s ruling party in connection with a political funding scandal, damaging further the troubled government, reports said Friday (The News, p- 10)