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| Blast kills Pakistani provincial minister in PM's political heartland |
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| By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed one of Pakistan's provincial ministers and at least eight others when it destroyed the minister's home on Sunday in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political heartland, rescue officials said. Police said the blast appeared to be a suicide attack, and it had caused the roof to cave in as the home minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, held meetings with around 20 people in his hometown of Attock in northern Pakistan. Salman Rafiq, provincial health adviser for Punjab, said Khanzada had died. |
| French policeman wounded by gunshot near Paris |
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| A French policeman was slightly wounded by a gunshot on Sunday as he tried to apprehend two men who had broken into an Interior Ministry building just outside Paris, a ministry spokesman said. The circumstance are not clear yet but the most likely hypothesis is a burglary, spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said. Security has been tight in Paris since 17 people were killed in January by Islamist gunmen in attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a Jewish shop. |
| PM Modi disappoints supporters with low-key speech |
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 By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reforms agenda got blocked in parliament, people in his camp were hoping the famed orator will use a key Independence Day speech to renew confidence in his leadership. Modi's 90-minute-long speech, made from the ramparts of New Delhi's Red Fort on Saturday, focused on measures his "Team India" had rolled out to include millions of poor Indians in the banking and insurance systems, policies for workers and farmers and successes in the fights against inflation and corruption. "We expected him to hit back at the opposition and blame the opposition for the slower-than-expected reform pace, but he failed to do so," said a minister in Modi's government.
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