Pakistan to negotiate over mosque
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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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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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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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A showdown is shaping up in Pakistan's turbulent northwest between secular-minded ethnic Pashtuns and those who support Taliban-style Islamists Â a conflict that is likely to sharpen regardless of which side wins Monday's elections.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf met top officials Monday to consider an assault on Islamic militants holed up inside a mosque, as clerics made a last-ditch bid to end the week-long siege peacefully.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court will consider whether to reinstate the country's top judge, as violence continues.
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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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Pakistan said on Tuesday it would ask the World Bank to intervene to resolve a row over India's plans to build a dam in the disputed Kashmir region after the nuclear-armed rivals failed to resolve the issue bilaterally.
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Pakistan&#39;s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was in London on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair for talks set to be dominated by the fight against terrorism and the search for peace in the Middle East.
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A cleric holed up in a Pakistani mosque said on Friday he and hundreds of followers were willing to surrender, but set conditions authorities rejected after three days of violence in which 19 people have died.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is due in London to hold talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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A Pakistani cleric holed up in a mosque in Islamabad said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, raising hopes of an end to a confrontation in which 19 people have died.
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Tribal elders were in talks with al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan on Monday over the fate of two kidnapped Chinese engineers after an extended deadline to kill one hostage passed, a Pakistani official said.
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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 security forces tightened their noose round a mosque in Islamabad on Sunday after President Pervez Musharraf told militants barricaded inside to surrender or die.
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Tribal elders were in talks with al  Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan on Monday over the fate of  two kidnapped Chinese engineers after an extended deadline to  kill one hostage passed, a Pakistani official said.
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A PAKISTANI tribal leader linked to al-Qaeda agreed to negotiate over the fate of two Chinese hostages today after allowing a deadline for a threatened execution to pass.