Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country’s president said today.

At least 37 people were shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan following the assassination of a politician, hospital chiefs said today.

Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said today as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims.

THOUSANDS of Pakistani lawyers and other opponents of President Pervez Musharraf embarked on a “long march” aimed at reinstating judges sacked by the embattled US-backed leader.

Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf was accused today of delaying elections to avoid defeat.

Pakistan today called on the international community to rush aid to one million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.

Floods due to a cyclone and rain have left as many as 100 people dead in south-western Pakistan, a senior relief official said, as the government appealed for donations of tents to shelter about 1 million people left homeless by the flooding.

HUNDREDS of rioters angered by the killing of a rebel Baluch tribal leader rampaged through a south-western Pakistani city yesterday, burning shops, banks and police vehicles.

FRIGHTENED pilgrims streamed out of a remote village in southwestern Pakistan yesterday following a bomb attack on a Shi’ite shrine.

Frightened pilgrims crammed into buses leaving a remote village in southwestern Pakistan today as relatives sifted for signs of loved ones killed in a brutal bombing.

The death toll from almost two months of monsoon rain and floods across South Asia topped 700 today as racing rivers and heavy downpours and winds hit India’s western desert states and Pakistan’s Sindh province.

The remains of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl could soon be returned to his family after a Pakistani DNA test confirmed that a decapitated body found in the city of Karachi was his, a government official said today.

Police say they are closing in on the kidnappers of US reporter Daniel Pearl.