Intense clashes at Pakistani siege mosque
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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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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the pro-Taliban Red Mosque on Saturday, as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces launched an operation last night against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a monthslong standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.
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Pakistani security forces and militants clashed on Sunday in fighting that killed at least nine people in the mountains near the Afghan border where al-Qaida-linked fighters are believed to be hiding, military officials said.
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Islamist students holed up in an Islamabad mosque fought gunbattles with Pakistani security forces on Friday after the militants' leader said he and hundreds of his followers would rather die than surrender.
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A standoff between Pakistan's government and radical Islamic students locked inside a mosque entered a third day as sporadic shots rang out early Friday around the compound.
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At least nine were killed Tuesday in the clashes between Pakistani security forces and militants in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, Daily Times reported Wednesday.
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Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 37 people in Pakistan on Thursday, as a militant backlash intensified following the army's storming of radical mosque in Islamabad earlier this month.
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Pakistani forces launched an operation on Tuesday to clear militants from a mosque compound after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down, the military said.
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Pakistani police step up operations at a mosque in Islamabad, on the fifth day of confrontation with Islamists.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- Security forces clashed with militants Tuesday outside a radical mosque where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing five people, officials said.
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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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A paramilitary trooper and at least two students were killed when gunfire erupted during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.
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Gunfire rang out around a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan's capital early Friday as Islamic militants holed up in the complex snubbed a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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Gunmen fired at Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's aircraft as it took off on Friday, while a radical cleric holed up with hundreds of followers at an Islamabad mosque said they would rather die than surrender.
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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.