Intense clashes at Pakistani siege mosque
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Heavy exchanges of fire erupted on Friday between Islamist militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque and security forces after the militants' leader said he and his hundreds of followers would rather die than surrender.
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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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Pakistani forces set off &quot;warning&quot; blasts and knocked down the door of a pro-Taliban mosque Thursday, prompting militants to hurl grenades and open fire as tension mounted in a two-day siege.
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Pakistani security forces geared up for a possible raid on a radical Islamabad mosque early Wednesday after running street battles with hardline students left 12 people dead and 140 injured.
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A Pakistani minister says Islamist radicals are holding women and children hostage in a besieged mosque.
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The governmentâs siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad continued for a fourth day after the remaining clericâs offer to surrender was rejected.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 -- Pakistani security forces on Thursday launched an intense operation against militants holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned deadly in recent days.
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Forty 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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A radical Pakistani mosque Saturday threatened forceful retaliation if the government launches an operation against it after President Pervez Musharraf said it housed suicide bombers.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 7 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the 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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Islamabad, Pakistan, July 3 -- A long-simmering standoff between the government and a radical mosque in the heart of the Pakistani capital exploded into a vicious street clash on Tuesday, with a soldier and two students dying and dozens more injured.
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.
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At least five Islamist students and a Pakistani soldier were killed and more than 400 people injured in gunbattles Tuesday at a radical mosque in Islamabad, hospital and security officials said.
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About 700 radical Muslim students surrendered at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, but thousands of militants remained inside a day after 16 people were killed in clashes.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 40 militants as they fought their way through an Islamic school where women and children were feared to be hiding.
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Pakistani police step up operations at a mosque in Islamabad, on the fifth day of confrontation with Islamists.