Pakistani mosque chief caught as troops lay siege
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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Pakistan's army says it has cleared a mosque in Islamabad of militants, a day after troops stormed the complex.
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Pakistani forces set off &quot;warning&quot; blasts and knocked down the door of a pro-Taliban mosque Thursday, prompting militants to hurl grenades and open fire as tension mounted in a two-day siege.
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A Pakistani army commander was shot and killed by Islamic radicals Sunday during an operation where troops blasted holes in a besieged mosque's perimeter walls, escalating an already tense stand-off between troops and the radical Islamists hiding inside.
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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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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's top leaders hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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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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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday to clear it of militants after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down.
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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.
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Heavy exchanges of fire erupted on Friday between Islamist militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque and security forces after the militants' leader said he and his hundreds of followers would rather die than surrender.
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Pakistani security forces have completely secured a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad, and no more fighting is going on in the sprawling complex, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Militants numbering in the dozens remained holed up in the Red Mosque complex, even after reports that the arrested leader had called for an end to the siege.
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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 police say they have captured a leading militant, Qasim Toori, in a shoot-out in the city of Karachi.
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Pakistani security forces captured and wounded top Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah in southwestern Pakistan early on Monday, a police chief said.
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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing