Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit Khan said there exist evidences in South Waziristan Agency (SWA), which speak volumes of Indian involvement in prevailing uprising and insurgency in agency, Geo News reported.

He told Geo News that the evidences found against India in South Waziristan included Indian arms, bombs and Indian medicines.

Khan said that the evidences were being investigated.

‘We have yet to entrust proofs to Indian government,’ he added.

New Delhi Tuesday refuted Islamabad’s accusation that it was instigating trouble in the neighbouring country and rejected any connection with its internal developments.

‘We have absolutely nothing to do with whatever is happening in Balochistan or whatever is happening within Pakistan. I think it is their own making,’ External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said.

Pakistan’s military spokesperson Athar Abbas Tuesday claimed that Islamabad has enough evidence to substantiate that India was funding terror in South Waziristan.

He alleged that Pakistani security forces had seized Indian-made arms and equipment from the Taliban bastion of South Waziristan and added that Islamabad would soon raise the issue through diplomatic channels.

Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, Gilani said the government has not made NRO a matter of ego and that the government remains committed to abolishing the 17th amendment and Article 58-2(b), the Dawn newspaper reported on its website.

He said the NRO was not brought to the house due to the parliamentarians’ reservations. Gilani reiterated the government is still committed to the Charter of Democracy (CoD).

The NRO, issued by former president Pervez Musharraf, scrapped all corruption cases against politicians and bureaucrats filed between January 1986 and October 1999, on the grounds that they may have been politically motivated.

The ordinance allowed Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari to return to Pakistan.

However, in July this year, Pakistan’s supreme court ruled the NRO had to be ratified by parliament within four months, failing which the ordinance would lapse, allowing cases against politicians to be reopened.

But the opposition threatened a countrywide protest if the NRO was taken to parliament, forcing the prime minister to abandon the move, media reports said. More worrying, the ruling party’s main ally threatened that its members would not support the bill.

The damage for President Asif Ali Zardari could be more significant. He’s already under pressure to resign for failing to revoke sweeping presidential powers that include the right to dissolve parliament. His isolation within his own party has also been growing, according to media reports.

The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city’s outskirts. Negligence on the part of the driver of the Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express was blamed.

‘The driver did not follow the red signal and slammed into the parcel train,’ said Aftab Ahmad Memon, chief railway official in the region.

Nearly all those killed and injured were in the carriage directly behind the locomotive, which took brunt of the impact. Two women and an infant were among the dead.

‘Most of the injured have suffered simple fractures, cuts and bruises,’ Seemi Jamali of Jinnah Hospital told the Geo News television channel.

Television footage showed grieving relatives at the accident site as rescuers removed bodies and injured by cutting through the wreck.

In July 2005, more than 125 people died and hundreds suffered injuries when three trains ploughed into each other in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital. Authorities also blamed one of the drivers for that crash.

Clinton began her first official visit to Pakistan as it reeled under militant violence, with the military battling Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the South Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border.

The former first lady was scheduled to hold talks with Pakistani political and military leaders, in addition to meeting elders from the troubled northwestern region and members of the business community, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

It was expected that several agreements concerning US investment, particularly in the energy sector, would be signed during her visit.

Officials from the two sides reviewed last week a range of options to lessen the energy crisis and create the right climate to attract private capital investments in Pakistan.

The parliament was facing grave security threats in the prevailing security situation; therefore the government was seriously considering the deployment of security guards inside the parliament, the Online news agency said quoting an unnamed parliament official Tuesday.

Although bringing arms into parliament of any country was banned and Pakistan was also abiding by this democratic norm, he pointed out.

He said the government had reliable information that terrorists planned to storm into parliament to kidnap any federal minister or member of parliament.

The National Assembly session is scheduled to start Nov 2 but the security agencies have not given the go-ahead so far. The government may also think of rescheduling the secession, sources said.

According to eyewitnesses, the senior army official, along with his mother and driver, narrowly escaped the attack, which took place in sector I/9, Geo TV reported.

‘The assailant was waiting for 15 minutes outside the army official’s home to launch the terror strike,’ an eyewitnesses was quoted as saying.

The attacker fled from the scene.

On Oct 22, Brigadier Moinuddin Ahmed, who was the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was gunned down in Islamabad along with another soldier.

Over 170 people have been killed in the latest wave of militant violence, which started with a suicide bombing at the offices of the UN World Food Programme in Islamabad Oct 5. Five employees of the agency were killed.

The most audacious attack came on Oct 10 when 10 terrorists in military uniform laid siege to the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 19 people, including nine raiders, died in the 22-hour standoff. One militant was arrested.

On Oct 15, gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed two police academies and the offices of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore. A car bomber struck at a police station in the northwestern town of Kohat. At least 38 people including 11 insurgents were killed in a single day.

A twin suicide bombing Oct 20 at the International Islamic University here killed seven people.

On Oct 23, 25 people were killed and 27 injured in a series of blasts across Pakistan. Eighteen people died in a landmine explosion in Mohmand Agency while seven were killed when a suicide bomber struck at an air force base in Attock district. Eight people were injured in a bombing outside a restaurant in Peshawar.

The government directed security agencies to take steps to ensure foolproof security at educational institutions across the country, Geo TV reported Monday.

Educational institutions in Balochistan will remain closed for three more days following the killing of Balocistan’s education minister Sunday.

Institutions in the restive North West Frontier Province will remained closed till Nov 1.

Over 170 people have been killed in the latest wave of militant violence, which started with a suicide bombing at the offices of the UN World Food Programme in Islamabad Oct 5. Five employees of the agency were killed.

The most audacious attack came on Oct 10 when 10 terrorists in military uniform laid siege to the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 19 people, including nine raiders, died in the 22-hour standoff. One militant was arrested.

On Oct 15, gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed two police academies and the offices of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore. A car bomber struck at a police station in the northwestern town of Kohat. At least 38 people including 11 insurgents were killed in a single day.

A twin suicide bombing Oct 20 at the International Islamic University here killed seven people.

On Oct 22, Brigadier Moinuddin Ahmed, who was the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was gunned down in Islamabad along with another soldier.

A day later, 25 people were killed and 27 injured in a series of blasts across Pakistan. Eighteen people died in a landmine explosion in Mohmand Agency while seven were killed when a suicide bomber struck at an air force base in Attock district. Eight people were injured in a bombing outside a restaurant in Peshawar.

In the past 24 hours till Sunday evening, 15 insurgents were killed in the area, raising the number of militants killed to 178 since the security forces launched operation Rah-e-Nijat, or Path of Salvation, on Oct 17, the army said in a statement.

It said one soldier was killed and three others were injured in the latest fighting that started Saturday morning in South Waziristan, where some 10,000 Taliban militants are holed up, Xinhua reported.

Security forces have also secured a strategic mountain called Tarkona Narai after 16 hours of intense fighting with the militants, it said.

Guns, rockets, mortar bombs and ammunitions belonging to the militants were recovered from the area bordering Afghanistan.

The army said 30,000 soldiers are taking part in the operation.

–Indo-Asian news Service

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The police said gunmen opened fire at him as he was coming out of a car outside his home in the provincial capital Quetta.

The assailants fled the crime scene after the attack, Xinhua reported.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ahmed was a member of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.

The intelligence officials have taken the person, who allegedly drove the vehicle used in the Lahore-Islamabad motorway suicide blast, under their custody and started an investigation into the incident, Geo news reported Sunday.

Police sources said the car, used in the Lillah interchange blast on the Lahore-Islamabad motorway, was coming from Peshawar and the motorway police had seized the driver of the car before the explosion.

The accused was aged between 22-23 years and could not speak Urdu fluently, it said.

A police officer said the arrested accused has been shifted to a fortified location for further investigation.