Walls blown as cleric dreams of Pakistani revolution
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Pakistani commandos blew holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday in hope hundreds of women and children could escape, while security forces besieged a revolutionary cleric leading Islamist gunmen inside.
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BAGHDAD -- Mercurial Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr once again has everyone guessing about his next move.
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With Islamic hardliners battling security forces on the streets of the Pakistani capital, President Pervez Musharraf faces a major new test as he seeks to shore up his eight-year military rule.
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The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has pitched Pakistan into a political freefall and raised fears that increasingly bitter divisions in the society are turning the country into another Iraq.
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Enraged crowds rioted across Pakistan and hopes for democracy hung by a thread after Benazir Bhutto was gunned down Thursday as she waved to supporters from the sunroof of her armored vehicle. The death of President Pervez Musharraf's most powerful opponent threw the nation into chaos just 12 days before elections, and threatened its already unsteady role as a key fighter against Islamic terror.
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Pakistan's exiled leader makes a tightly choreographed announcement of her comeback. But a new political factor awaits her: an unleashed media
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops is killed, officials say.
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DEAR readers, Pakistan is installing its new prime minister today, and I hope he will turn a new leaf in the countryâs often shaky styles of governance.
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Troops backed by gunship helicopters ringed a militant cleric's hideout in northwest Pakistan on Friday, clashing with his supporters a day after a deadly bombing, officials said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 21 -- For a few hours Thursday, Pakistan glimpsed its political future, and it looked like this: A crowd of hundreds of thousands spilling into the streets for a rollicking but peaceful welcome to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that, when replicated across the country,...
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - If one Pakistan ruling party rally with awkward speeches, empty audience chairs and distracted crowds in a dustbowl is anything to go by, President Pervez Musharraf's days in power may be numbered.
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Pakistani opposition leader Asif Zardari tells supporters his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto, came to him in a dream
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Terrorists wanted for attacks in Pakistan and beyond are leading the resistance against troops besieging a radical Islamic seminary, the government said Sunday, while a mosque spokesman claimed hundreds died in an overnight assault.
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The Pakistani opposition leader's assassination has thrown the country into turmoil.
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Pakistani commandos battled die-hard Islamic militants holed up in a radical mosque through the night and into the early morning Wednesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in an assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Islamic extremists.
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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.