Pakistan Military Storms a Mosque to Free Students After Negotiations Fail to End a Siege
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Three elite police commandos were killed and seven others injured in the raid, a doctor told Agence France-Presse.
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Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Monday they were making a last-ditch bid to avert an assault on militants holed up in a mosque after authorities issued what they said was a last warning for them to surrender.
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The governmentâs siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad continued for a fourth day after the remaining clericâs offer to surrender was rejected.
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More than 100 radical Islamic students holed up at an Islamabad mosque compound surrendered Wednesday morning, winding down an intense standoff between militants and government forces, a government source told CNN.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday after talks to end a week-long standoff with militants broke down. Initial reports put casualties at 26 killed and many wounded.
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A series of loud blasts was heard early Thursday at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital, with security officials saying they were explosive charges detonated to warn those inside to surrender.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Islamists besieged at an Islamabad mosque to surrender or be killed Saturday, amid claims that a bid to shoot down his plane was in revenge for the standoff.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday told Islamists besieged at a mosque in the capital to surrender or be killed, amid claims that a bid to shoot down his plane was in revenge for the standoff.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the pro-Taliban Red Mosque on Saturday, as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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A Pakistani minister says Islamist radicals are holding women and children hostage in a besieged mosque.
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The Pakistan government has set a deadline of 11 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Wednesday for militant students at a mosque in the capital to surrender after 11 people were killed in clashes a day earlier, a spokesman said.
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In an effort to oust Islamic radicals holed up in an Islamabad mosque, Pakistani officials have cut off water, gas, electricity, and 12 telephones, while troops blasted holes in the mosque's walls to free women and children inside.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 40 militants as they fought their way through an Islamic school where women and children were feared to be hiding.
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Pakistani troops Wednesday battled to flush out militants making a last stand inside Islamabad&#39;s Red Mosque after fighting that left at least 62 people dead, amid fears the toll could rise dramatically.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 40 militants who were believed to be holed up with hundreds of women and children.
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Pakistani troops in Islamabad begin an operation to clear militants from the Red Mosque, after talks fail.
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Pakistani police early Saturday seized control of an Islamic seminary run by the clerics from the embattled Red Mosque, officials said.