Pakistanis launch attack after mosque talks fail
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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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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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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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Scores die as Pakistani government forces launch an attack on the occupied complex in Islamabad
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Gunfire rang out around a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan's capital early Friday as Islamic militants holed up in the complex snubbed a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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Pakistan demands the surrender of armed students at an Islamabad mosque, after deadly clashes at the site.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Security forces ringing a besieged mosque pummeled Islamic radicals with gunfire on Friday, as concern grew that many of those still inside -- including children -- were being held against their will.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound on Tuesday, killing about 50 militants, as they fought their way through an Islamic school where they believed a rebel cleric was hiding with women and children hostages.
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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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Pakistan's president sets up a negotiation team to try to end a week-long stand-off at a radical mosque.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday  in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical  Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style  movement, 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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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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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked  Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a  mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants&#39;  leader defied government demands to surrender.
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A leader of an alliance of Pakistani religious parties condemned on Friday an army assault on a radical mosque, which he described as the darkest chapter in the country's history, and called for protests.
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Nearly 700 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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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The wave of violence that has gripped Pakistan in recent days spread to new parts of the country and featured more ferocious tactics yesterday, with suicide bombers targeting a mosque, a police academy, and a convoy of Chinese engineers in attacks that killed more than 50 people.