Hundreds surrender at Pakistan mosque, many defiant
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About 700 radical Muslim students surrendered at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, but thousands of militants remained inside a day after 16 people were killed in clashes.
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A radical cleric besieged at a mosque in the Pakistani capital refused to surrender to the government Thursday, a day after his brother was arrested while trying to sneak away disguised in a burqa.
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Troops surrounding a radical mosque in Islamabad deny entry to politicians seeking to broker a negotiated deal.
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Pakistani security forces tightened their noose around a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Sunday after President Pervez Musharraf told militants barricaded inside to surrender or die.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked  Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a  mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants&#39;  leader defied government demands to surrender.
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Thousands of Sunni Muslim radicals protested in a central Pakistani on city on Friday and vowed revenge for a bomb attack on a religious rally that killed 42 people
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How much public approval President Pervez Musharraf wins from his confrontation with Islamist militants holed up in an Islamabad mosque will depend on the number of casualties if troops end the siege by force.
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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan  - Tens of thousands of people turned out to greet Pakistan's suspended chief justice as he traveled to a northwestern town on Saturday to forge resistance to President Pervez Musharraf's attempt to sack him.
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HARIPUR, Pakistan, June 2 -- Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in one of the strongest displays of opposition yet to President Pervez Musharraf, even as the government cracked down on the media in an attempt to control a burgeoning crisis.
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Pakistani troops have taken over the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, after a hard core of militant students held hundreds of hostages in the Islamabad compound.
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Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque compound exchanged fire with security forces on Monday, but there was no sign of an imminent assault the morning after the government gave "a final warning" to surrender.
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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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Leaders of a besieged radical mosque remained defiant today, but 500 of their followers surrendered.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants' leader defied government demands to surrender.
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Demonstrators rallied Friday in Pakistan's major cities to denounce a government assault on a radical mosque that left more than 100 dead, and security forces were deployed to foil revenge attacks by extremists, officials said.
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Pakistan's army says it has found 73 bodies at a mosque compound in Islamabad, after battles with militants.
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Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital on Thursday, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from their captured leader to surrender.