Pakistani politicians hope to meet radical cleric
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Members of Pakistani religious parties hoped to hold talks on Saturday with a radical cleric holed up in an Islamabad mosque and persuade him to send out children among his hundreds of besieged militant followers.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf began a three-day visit to Italy yesterday during which he was expected to discuss global terrorism and meet Pope John Paul II.
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The foreign ministers of seven key Muslim nations will meet in Pakistan this weekend to discuss a joint strategy to end the worsening turmoil in the Middle East, officials said Friday.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused yesterday to meet with a delegation of Iraqi political figures that had rushed here from Baghdad with a last-ditch offer for peace, deflating hopes for a quick resolution to the confrontation between Sadr's militia and US and Iraqi security forces.
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BAGHDAD The American-backed Iraqi government and representatives of Moktada al-Sadr, the rebellious Shiite cleric, continued talks on Monday, seeking a peace plan for the vast, volatile Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City that could set a precedent for
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will discuss the fight against terrorism and Middle East peace with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf when they meet tomorrow, officials say.
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Pakistan's president sets up a negotiation team to try to end a week-long stand-off at a radical mosque.
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Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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A radical cleric seized by security forces in Pakistan on Thursday urged armed militants still holed up inside a mosque besieged by government troops to end a two-day standoff.
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Foreign ministers of seven Muslim countries and the chief of the Organization of the Islamic Conference will meet in Pakistan this weekend to prepare for an Islamic summit aimed at ending turbulence in the Middle East.
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The party of Benazir Bhutto will meet to discuss her successor and whether to contest Pakistan's election next month.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- After months of whipping his followers into a frenzy of anti government sentiment, the head cleric at a radical mosque was caught yesterday trying to leave his besieged compound clad in a head-to-toe veil known as a burqa, police said.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 16 â In hopes of restoring a fragile peace with militant groups in the region along its border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani government dispatched a team of tribal elders there today to meet with leaders of the groups.
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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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Reviving violence-weakened bonds between moderate clerics and followers of different faiths holds the key to crushing Asia's formidable network of extremist militants, regional leaders said.
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A Pakistani cleric said a bid to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s plane was apparently in revenge for the bloody government siege of his mosque, in which he alleged that 70 students had died.
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Benazir Bhutto's party was meeting to discuss a successor to the slain Pakistani opposition leader on Sunday, as a senior official of the former ruling party said an election due in little over a week was likely to be delayed.