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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Mufti Mohammed Jamil was reported to have been on his way home when two gunmen on a motorcycle stopped his car and opened fire with automatic weapons.
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Pakistan's security forces on Sunday  shot dead an al Qaeda militant accused of an assassination  attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and involvement in the  killing of a U.S. journalist.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim  cleric and an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan on  Saturday, the latest attack in religious violence that has  already killed more than 70 people this month.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - At least 10 supporters of Iraq's  top Shi'ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen  opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd,  prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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Pakistan says security forces have killed a top al-Qaida militant who was allegedly involved in two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf, a close US ally in the war on terrorism.
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Pakistan Times Staff Reporter / PT Monitoring Desk. NAWABSHAH: A suspected top al-Qaeda oper ative, Amjad Hussain Farooqi has been killed in a raid in southern Pakistan.
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 Islamist militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in the compound of an Islamabad mosque to end a week-long siege.
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An elite Pakistani army commander was killed Sunday while leading an operation to demolish the perimeter walls of a mosque where an Islamic cleric and his followers have barricaded themselves for the past week.
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A Pakistani army commander was shot and killed by Islamic radicals Sunday during an operation where troops blasted holes in a besieged mosque's perimeter walls, escalating an already tense stand-off between troops and the radical Islamists hiding inside.
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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A suspected Islamist zealot  opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial  government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday,  officials said.
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An Afghan Islamic cleric who died in custody in Pakistan on Wednesday had signs of torture on his body, an intelligence official said.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen - Yemen&#39;s Defense and Interior ministries announced the death of a rebel cleric who has led his followers in fierce battles with the government for more than two months, the country&#39;s official news agency reported Friday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A suspected Islamist zealot opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday, officials said.
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Gunmen in Baghdad have killed a senior Sunni cleric, reawakening fears of sectarian violence in strife-torn Iraq. Sheikh Hazem Zeidi of the Muslim Scholars&#39; Association worked at an isolated Sunni mosque in Baghdad&#39;s impoverished Shia suburb Sadr City.
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Pakistani police on Wednesday shot dead a suspected Islamic militant wanted in connection with the 2002 abduction and killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, police said.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Pakistani religious leader, allegedly linked with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, has died here in police custody, local media reported Thursday.