11 April 2004	Sunday	20 Safar 1425

ISLAMABAD, April 10: Pakistan deported to Canada the youngest son of an Egyptian-born Canadian killed by Pakistani forces during a raid on an Al Qaeda hideout in October, officials said on Saturday.

Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Rauf Chaudhry said Abdul Karim Khadr, the youngest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, was deported to Canada on Friday.

"It was done on the request of the Canadian government," Chaudhry told Reuters.

Pakistani intelligence says Ahmed Said Khadr, also known as Abu Abdur Rehman and nicknamed al-Canadi or "the Canadian", ran a charity that sent money to Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Canadian television has reported that the Khadr family had close connections with Osama bin Laden.

Khadr's now-deported youngest son was wounded in a gunbattle during the raid in the North Waziristan tribal region near Afghan border in which his father and seven others were killed. The young Khadr was treated for a spinal injury after the fight.-Reuters