Pak rejects Indian terror mantra

Hina, Krishna meet on sidelines of Tokyo Conference

Tokyo—India on Sunday provided more evidence to Pakistan about terrorist activities currently taking place on Pakistani soil against India, Indian media reported. Foreign Minister S M Krishna gave this evidence, based mostly on disclosures made by Mumbai attacks accused Abu Jundal, to his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in a bilateral meeting in Tokyo on the sidelines of the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan. Krishna conveyed to Khar that India had now even more reasons to believe that forces inimical to India’s interests were being encouraged by certain Pakistan state agencies.

Parliament made constitution: Gilani

Lahore—Ex-prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Sunday said the constitution is supreme but it is parliament which has created the constitution while the PPP has ensured the strengthening of parliament. Talking to newsmen at Lahore Cantt Railway Station before his departure for Multan, Gilani said that time would decide whether parliament or constitution is supreme. “There was still a constitution in the country when the judges were incarcerated and we freed the judges,” he said.

5 cops, US soldier among 14 killed in blasts

Kabul—Roadside bombs killed 14 Afghan civilians, five policemen and one member of the US -led international military coalition in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and Nato authorities said Sunday. The civilians, including women and children, were killed in Arghistan district, along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, Kandahar province spokesman Ahmad Jawed Faisal said. One bomb exploded when a minivan ran over it on Sunday morning, he said. A second went off when other civilians, who were riding on a tractor, arrived to help the dead and wounded.

Federer seals seventh Wimbledon title

London—Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 on Sunday to win a record-equalling seventh Wimbledon title and 17th grand slam crown. The Swiss third seed recovered from a sluggish start to dominate the match and return to the top of the world rankings, ending Murray’s hopes of becoming the first British man to win the title on home soil for 76 years.

Murray started well, taking the first set and dictating the second until Federer conjured a brilliant break of serve out of the blue in the 12th game to clinch it.

Deputy PM unhappy over worst Punjab law, order situation

Gujrat—Deputy Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League senior central leader Ch Parvez Elahi has expressed deep concern over deterioration in all fields in particular over worst law and order situation in the Punjab and said that the chief minister has no right to rule if 100 dacoities are being committed daily in every district of the province. Addressing a gathering of notables and former nazims and naib nazims Sunday, Elahi said that during all tenures of Shahbaz Sharif there is not a single project of people’s welfare like those started and launched during our tenure. He said that the fate of the people could not be changed for better merely through talking. Ch Parvez Elahi said that peoples’ love and affection for our family has reached third generation and this is our greatest asset and credit.

Nato supplies: DPC starts long march to Islamabad

Lahore—Difa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC), a group of right-wing political and religious leaders who have been the most vocal opponents of the restoration of Nato supply Sunday started its long march from Lahore to Islamabad to press the PPP led government to stop Nato supply line as per public sentiments. A large convoy comprising buses, other vehicles and motorcycle riders are accompanying the long march. DPC leaders including Maulana Sami ul Haq, Syed Munawar Hasan, Liaquat Balouch, Hafiz Saeed, Sheikh Rashid are leading the march.

Roadside bombs kill 18 in Afghanistan

Kabul—At least 18 civilians were killed by three bombs hidden along a short stretch of road in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, Afghan officials said. While roadside bombings are a regular occurrence in Afghanistan, especially in the contested southern part of the country, Sunday’s death toll was unusually high. The first casualties of the day occurred when a Mazda minibus carrying men, women and children to Pakistan struck a buried bomb in the Arghistan district of Kandahar province, said Jawid Faisal, a spokesman for the provincial government.