Shooting at Pakistani mosque foils Islamist mediators
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Explosions and heavy gunfire stopped Islamist politicians from entering a besieged Islamabad mosque on Saturday, on a mission to persuade a radical cleric to send out children among his hundreds of militant followers.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound on Tuesday, killing up to 50 militants, as they fought their way through an Islamic school where they believed a rebel cleric was hiding along with women and children.
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MULTAN, Pakistan - Pakistan announced a ban on religious and political gatherings nationwide after a bomb attack against Sunni Muslim radicals in a central city early Thursday killed at least 39 people and wounded about 100 others.    Police suspected it was a sectarian attack, and army troops were deployed to keep order in Multan, where about 2,000 angry Sunnis gathered outside a hospital where victims were taken, shouting "Shiites are infidels!" and slogans against the government...
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in an Islamabad mosque compound to end a week-long siege.
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Isolated shots rang out as a group of worried parents entered a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Friday to collect children caught up in a deadly stand-off between Islamic radical students and security forces.
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Pakistani troops cornered holdout Islamic militants and combed the warren-like Red Mosque complex for booby traps Wednesday after assaulting the compound and killing its pro-Taliban cleric, the army spokesman said.
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ISLAMABAD, July 10  - Negotiations to an end a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque ran into deadlock on Tuesday after earlier speculation that a deal might be struck, the chief government negotiator said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- After saying for days that it would not negotiate with the radical cleric at the center of the Red Mosque siege, President Pervez Musharraf's government on Monday night sent a high-level delegation to the mosque's front gate for talks.
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Shooting broke out at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Tuesday after students clashed with police deployed there. Students from the Lal Masjid mosque opened fire on the police and paramilitary rangers, who fired tear gas at crowds near the mosque, according to a photographer for The Associated Press.
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Loud blasts are heard at a mosque in Pakistan where armed Islamic students have clashed with security forces.
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More than 30 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday  in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical  Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style  movement, officials said.
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Nearly 30 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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A Pakistani paramilitary trooper was shot dead and seven students were wounded during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday.
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Negotiations to an end a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque broke down on Tuesday and sustained gunfire and big explosions erupted from the vicinity of the mosque soon afterwards.
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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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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday, killing up to 50 militants as they fought their way through an Islamic school where women and children were feared to be hiding.