Anxious parents enter besieged Pakistan mosque
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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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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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Residents of Pakistan's largest city cautiously emerged from their homes Sunday and struggled to find food and fuel
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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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Terrorists wanted for attacks in Pakistan and beyond are leading the resistance against troops besieging a radical Islamic seminary, the government said Sunday, while a mosque spokesman claimed hundreds died in an overnight assault.
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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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Hundreds of militant students under siege in a mosque in Pakistan's capital largely ignored calls from their captured leader to surrender on Thursday, raising fears that some children could be used as human shields.
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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 hard disk is being examined to ascertain the contents and possible connection to the UK incident and also regarding terrorist activity, if any, in India and elsewhere"  For 10 years, Mohammed Hassaan watched the two boys in the modest gray house across the street from his mosque grow into young professionals and observant Muslims.But things changed the last few years, he said Monday. Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed moved to Britain, and when they returned for visits they attended a radical mosque in Bangalore, cutting themselves off from their more moderate Muslim upbringing.The brothers chose 'a different mosque ... a different school of thought,' said Hassaan, imam at the Khudadaad Mosque. Read more
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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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A series of loud blasts was heard early Thursday at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital, with security officials saying they were explosive charges detonated to warn those inside to surrender.
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A Pakistani minister says Islamist radicals are holding women and children hostage in a besieged mosque.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The tension long brewing around a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital burst into street battles yesterday between security forces and masked militants who challenged the government by mounting a vigilante anti-vice campaign.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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Pakistani security forces fired a series of "warning blasts" before dawn near Islamabad's radical Red Mosque on Thursday, stepping up pressure on hundreds of militant students inside to surrender, a security official said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide attacker detonated a huge bomb inside a crowded Shiite Muslim mosque in an eastern Pakistani city during Friday prayers, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens, officials said.    Police said that hundreds of people were inside the Zainabia mosque in the city of Sialkot at the time of the blast, which severely damaged walls and left body parts scattered inside...
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Rumors and paranoia about the assassination fuel the fears of ordinary Pakistanis as they see their country descend into instability