Pakistani forces tighten noose round mosque
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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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With talks aimed at ending the siege of the Imam Ali mosque stalled, U.S. forces appeared to have tightened their noose around Najaf.
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LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistani police have detained more than a dozen people after a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern city Lahore killing three people plus himself, a security official said Monday.
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The army is deployed in the north-eastern city of Sialkot to quell rioting following Friday's mosque attack.
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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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Pakistani security forces fired a series of "warning blasts" before dawn on Thursday near Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, stepping up pressure on hundreds of militant students inside to surrender, a security official said.
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Pakistani security forces fired a  series of &quot;warning blasts&quot; before dawn near Islamabad&#39;s radical  Red Mosque on Thursday, stepping up pressure on hundreds of  militant students inside to surrender, a security official  said.
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Security forces storm radical mosque in Islamabad  in an effort to end a bloody week-long siege.
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Two large blasts shake a radical mosque in Islamabad as Pakistani forces tighten their siege of the complex.
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Pakistani troops Wednesday battled to flush out the last die-hard militants inside Islamabad&#39;s Red Mosque after fighting that left at least 62 people dead, amid fears the toll could rise dramatically.
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Pakistani security forces were securing the last parts of a mosque and school complex on Wednesday, a day after an assault that killed a rebel cleric, more than 50 Islamist fighters and eight soldiers.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The tension long brewing around a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital burst into street battles yesterday between security forces and masked militants who challenged the government by mounting a vigilante anti-vice campaign.
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Pakistani troops in armoured vehicles enforced a shoot-on-sight curfew around a pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad on Wednesday after clashes with radical students left at least 16 people dead.
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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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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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Pakistani authorities imposed a curfew around a mosque on Wednesday where 11 people were killed in clashes between religious students and security forces and ordered students in the mosque to lay down their weapons.
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a bloody stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.