Shooting at Pakistani mosque foils Islamist mediators
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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 suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in eastern Pakistan has killed four people, including two security guards who died confronting the bomber and preventing far more deaths - the latest attack in apparent rising strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
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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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More than 30 people were killed in  northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence  which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando  assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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MULTAN, Pakistan - Pakistan announced a ban on religious and political gatherings nationwide after a bomb attack against Sunni Muslim radicals in a central city early Thursday killed at least 39 people and wounded about 100 others.    Police suspected it was a sectarian attack, and army troops were deployed to keep order in Multan, where about 2,000 angry Sunnis gathered outside a hospital where victims were taken, shouting "Shiites are infidels!" and slogans against the government...
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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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A Pakistani paramilitary trooper was shot dead during gunfire from a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement during clashes between security forces and Islamic students in Islamabad on Tuesday.
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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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Islamist students holed up in an Islamabad mosque fought gunbattles with Pakistani security forces on Friday after the militants' leader said he and hundreds of his followers would rather die than surrender.
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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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ISLAMABAD, July 10  - Negotiations to an end a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque ran into deadlock on Tuesday after earlier speculation that a deal might be struck, the chief government negotiator said.
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Shooting broke out at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Tuesday after students clashed with police deployed there. Students from the Lal Masjid mosque opened fire on the police and paramilitary rangers, who fired tear gas at crowds near the mosque, according to a photographer for The Associated Press.
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Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital on Thursday, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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LAHORE, 11 October 2004 - Guards at a Shiite mosque in the Punjab capital of Lahore yesterday stopped a suicide bomber who set off the explosives in the briefcase he was carrying.
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In Pakistan, a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite Muslim mosque has killed at least four people and injured several others. In the past two weeks violence against religious groups has killed 80 people.
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A paramilitary trooper and at least two students were killed when gunfire erupted during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.
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In an effort to oust Islamic radicals holed up in an Islamabad mosque, Pakistani officials have cut off water, gas, electricity, and 12 telephones, while troops blasted holes in the mosque's walls to free women and children inside.