Police who raided a militant hideout said today they arrested the alleged mastermind of major sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan.

A SCHOOL adviser who worked closely with police was jailed for life yesterday for torturing and killing his baby because he thought she was possessed.

About 200 supporters of Pakistan’s largest Islamic group, Jamaat-e-Islami, rallied in the capital of Pakistan’s portion of Kashmir today to protest against the detention of a group member in a police raid a day earlier.

A severe aftershock jolted northwestern Pakistan today, a day after India sharply curtailed plans to open its Kashmir border to help survivors of the region’s massive earthquake.

Heavy fighting has erupted in south-east Afghanistan between a local tribal leader and a warlord loyal to Hamid Karzai’s interim administration.

The Northern Alliance has given the Taliban three days to surrender the city of Kunduz or face an all- out assault.

Several hundred Pakistani tribesmen have entered Afghanistan to join the Taliban in their battle with the US.