No breakthrough in talks over Pakistan siege mosque
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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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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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Pakistani troops in Islamabad begin an operation to clear militants from the Red Mosque, after talks fail.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 16 -- The Pakistani government plans to try to salvage a controversial peace deal in the remote tribal zone North Waziristan, despite a decision by Taliban fighters to renounce it and declare war against the army, officials said Monday.
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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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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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The US military clashed aggressively with forces of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as negotiations to end the standoff at one of Islam&#39;s most revered shrines remained stalled.
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ISLAMABAD: The second round of talks between Pakistan and India on nuclear and conventional Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) concluded here on Wednesday without announcement of any agreement or new CBM.
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Heading for his first interaction with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday with &#39;an open mind&#39;, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said they will not discuss solutions for substantive issues as the aim is to create and develop understanding and
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Pakistan says there is still no news on its ambassador to Afghanistan who is believed to have been kidnapped.
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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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There's still no sign of a resolution of the political standoff in French Polynesia.
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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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More than 500 radical Muslim students surrendered at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday but thousands of militants remained inside a day after 11 people were killed in clashes.
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The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers ended two days of talks yesterday with promises of more negotiations on trust-building measures but no sign of progress toward resolving their pivotal dispute over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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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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ISLAMABAD -- Fears deepened yesterday about the fate of hostages reportedly being held by Islamic militants inside a besieged radical mosque in the heart of the capital.