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Toronto: An Alberta imam says he spoke several months ago with a Calgary man he believes is the Canadian detained in Afghanistan and says the man talked about “helping his brothers and sisters in Afghanistan” by fighting the jihad but didn’t mention a suicide bombing.
In a report from Kandahar, CTV Newsnet quoted a written statement […]

Bad weather is hampering efforts to rescue more than 250,000 people stranded after a cyclone struck Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coastline.
Many people are clinging to trees and rooftops to escape floods and are now cut off by rising water. Roads, bridges and phone links are hit in many places.

TURBAT, Pakistan — Helicopters dropped urgently needed supplies Thursday in coastal areas where some 800,000 people were stranded by monsoon-spawned flooding, officials said.
Many fled to rooftops or high ground to escape the floodwaters that inundated large areas of Baluchistan province after Cyclone Yemyin. Monsoon storms also killed more than 120 people in India.

KARACHI: Thirty-nine people were counted dead and over 150 injured with the toll expected to rise by 15, the Sindh governor confirmed Saturday after the first lashing of monsoon rains battered Karachi.

NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 60 insurgents along the border with Pakistan in what was described as the largest insurgent formation crossing the border region in six months, NATO said Saturday.
The U.S. commander in the region late Friday said the number of insurgents reported moving over the Afghan-Pakistan border has increased in recent […]

Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including six Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan’s capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
The abductions were the latest act in an anti-vice campaign by students and teachers affiliated with the controversial Red Mosque _ a movement that has embarrassed the […]

NATO-led forces in Afghanistan today admitted that civilians were among those killed in weekend strikes in Pakistan’s Waziristan region.A correspondent reporting from Peshawar cited Pakistani military spokesman General Wahid Arshad as saying as many as 28 civilians, including women and children, were killed in June 23 rocket strikes in North and South Waziristan. Other agencies […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan yesterday condemned Britain’s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an affront to Muslim sentiments, and a cabinet minister said the honor provided a justification for suicide attacks.
“This is an occasion for the [world’s] 1.5 billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision,” Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, religious […]

The government in Pakistan is reported to have blocked the transmission of the Geo News TV channel across the country, as the TV network says “due to the reasons best known to them”.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is stirring up Pakistani politics by talking of a power-sharing deal with the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and, in an interview, of returning to Pakistan before the end of the year.