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

24 March 2010

Local News

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• (Photo) Aziz Memon, National Chairman Polio Plus Committee, of Rotary International, called on the Japanese Ambassador H.E. Mr. Chihiro Atsumi and thanked for the funding provided by the Japanese Government and urged to continue his support to help us in the making Pakistan Polio Free    (The News, p- 18)

International News

   Political

• Tokyo (By Irfan Siddique) Japan’s Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Mr. Yoshikawa has said that forces engaged in Afghanistan should abstain from destabilizing Pakistan because stability of Afghanistan is linked with Pakistan (Daily Jang, p- 8)

   Economic

• Tokyo (APP) Japan’s government may need to issue more bonds or drop some spending plans as it faces a shortage of up to 7 trillion yen ($78billion) in funds in the year to March 2012, the Nikkei newspaper reported (The Nation, p- 15)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s Daichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. is headed for a market capitalization of 15.5 billion dollars after its April 1 initial public offering , the world’s biggest since Visa’s in 2008 (The Nation, p- 16)

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• (Courtesy Yahoo) Birth-boosting hopes of Japan’s robot baby (Daily Times, p- B8)