Pakistani Troops Attack Clericâs Area
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Security forces fired on a stronghold of a militant cleric in Pakistan, sparking a gunbattle near the scene of a suicide attack on a military truck that killed 20 people.
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A leading Shiite Muslim cleric Friday criticized the heavy use of force by the US military against insurgents in a northern Iraqi city, saying
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Pakistani security forces launched a major operation Thursday against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.
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Pakistani troops attack a religious school in South Waziristan thought to house foreign al-Qaeda suspects.
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Raids on mosques and the arrests of several hardline Sunni clerics have raised fears the US-led assault on the Sunni insurgent stronghold
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.
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Pakistani forces have been battling al Qaeda fighters in an ongoing operation to rout terrorists in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence sources said.
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 Islamist militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in the compound of an Islamabad mosque to end a week-long siege.
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A senior cleric belonging to a Pakistani extremist party was shot dead when a man opened fire at him as he stood on his front doorstep, police and party officials said.
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Pakistani soldiers launch an offensive  against suspected al-Qaeda fighters even as Richard Armitage begins a visit to the region.
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Pakistani troops in armoured vehicles enforced a shoot-on-sight curfew around a pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad on Wednesday after clashes with radical students left at least 16 people dead.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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Pakistani troops yesterday threw a tight cordon around troubled South Waziristan district near the Afghan border a day after forces smashed a suspected al-Qaida training camp there and killed some 50 fighters, residents said.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound on Tuesday, killing about 50 militants, as they fought their way through an Islamic school where they believed a rebel cleric was hiding with women and children hostages.
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Pakistani troops on Friday combed mountains in the volatile tribal stronghold of an Al-Qaeda-linked militant blamed by Islamabad and Washington for the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 -- Pakistani security forces on Thursday launched an intense operation against militants holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned deadly in recent days.
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Pakistani security forces geared up for a possible raid on a radical Islamabad mosque early Wednesday after running street battles with hardline students left 12 people dead and 140 injured.