Musharraf tells mosque militants "surrender or die"
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President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque on Saturday to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the beseiged compound in the Pakistani capital.
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President Pervez Musharraf gave clerics more time to persuade defiant militants to lay down their arms and surrender a mosque, security officials said.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said Afghanistan must stop blaming his country for the Taliban-led insurgency, while NATO's top commander asked for more troops to battle the violence.
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President Musharraf says security forces should halt operations at Islamabad's Red Mosque to let women leave.
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The United States could lose its war on terrorism unless it deals with the poverty and political disputes that give rise to militant extremism, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview on Monday.
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The death toll in the governmentâs three-day siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad rose to 19, as reports emerged that the rebellionâs leader was offering to surrender.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf plans to stand down as army head, a ruling party official says.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf  warned the West on Tuesday that Taliban insurgents were a more  dangerous terrorist force than al Qaeda because of the broad  support they have in Afghanistan.
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Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque compound exchanged fire with security forces on Monday, but there was no sign of an imminent assault the morning after the government gave "a final warning" to surrender.
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President Pervez Musharraf has appealed for Pakistan to stand united as two people died in the latest of a wave of sectarian attacks that has killed 22 in the past few days.
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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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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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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf   warned the West on Tuesday that Taliban insurgents were a more   dangerous terrorist force than al Qaeda because of the broad   support they have in Afghanistan.
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A Pakistani cleric at the centre of a seven-day siege at an Islamabad mosque on Monday held &quot;last-ditch&quot; talks over loudspeakers with ministers and Islamic leaders to end the crisis.
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Iraq&#39;s Defense Minister Tuesday issued an ultimatum to followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holding the Imam Ali Mosque -- get out or be wiped out.
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Attempts to negotiate an end to a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque failed to make progress on Monday, a day after authorities gave Islamist militants inside a "final warning" to surrender.
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The top cleric at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital accused security forces on Saturday of killing more than 70 of his students, but said he and his supporters preferred martyrdom to capture.