Children used as shields in Pakistan mosque: govt
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Women and children were being used as human shields by militants besieged in a mosque in Islamabad, the Pakistan government said on Thursday as security forces ratcheted up pressure on hundreds inside to surrender.
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Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday.
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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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About 20 children taken hostage at a school in north-west Pakistan after police shootout
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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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New gunbattles and blasts rocked a besieged Pakistani mosque Thursday, as the government rejected a conditional surrender offer by a cleric it accused of using women and children as human shields.
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SIALKOT, Pakistan  - Pakistan beefed up security  Saturday as minority Shi'ite Muslims prepared to bury victims  of a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the eastern town of  Sialkot that killed at least 30 people a day earlier.
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A powerful Islamic organization alleged Thursday that officials were abusing a new law banning religious symbols from schools by expelling Muslim girls who were wearing printed bandannas &#151; not Islamic head scarves.
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Pakistani troops sealed off the area around a mosque in the capital and imposed a 24-hour curfew on Wednesday after 11 people were killed in clashes between security forces and militant Islamic students.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 12 -- In the fire-singed prayer hall of the Red Mosque on Thursday, pinpricks of sunlight filtered through hundreds of bullet holes in the corrugated tin roof while soldiers in combat boots stood at attention.
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Gunmen took hostage up to 250  Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on  Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with  police, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 -- After a senior Pakistani commando was killed in fighting overnight, government officials said Sunday the fighters holed up inside an Islamabad mosque are well trained and well armed militants with connections to known terrorist groups.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- A day after the death of a senior Pakistani commando, government officials said Sunday that the fighters holed up inside an Islamabad mosque are well-trained and well-armed radicals with connections to known terrorist groups.
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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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A banned Indian Islamic students' group was behind a deadly attack on a mosque in western India two months ago that killed 31 people and wounded more than 100 on a Muslim festival day, a police official said Monday.
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Pakistan beefed up security Saturday as minority Shi&#39;ite Muslims prepared to bury victims of a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the eastern town of Sialkot that killed at least 30 people a day earlier.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 4 -- The cleric at the heart of a months-long standoff between the Pakistani government and a radical mosque here was arrested Wednesday as he attempted to flee the mosque disguised in a burqa, government officials said.