Hundreds surrender at Pakistan mosque, many defiant
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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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Scores of militiamen loyal to rebellious cleric Moqtada Sadr put down their weapons in Najaf Friday as thousands of Iraqis streamed into the once-besieged shrine of Imam Ali following an agreement brokered overnight by the top Shiite Muslim religious figure in Iraq.
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A series of loud blasts was heard early Thursday at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital, with security officials saying they were explosive charges detonated to warn those inside to surrender.
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Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan on Sunday, protesting against the president Pervez Musharraf&#39;s plan to keep his army post.
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Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital on Thursday, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday told Islamists besieged at a mosque in the capital to surrender or be killed, amid claims that a bid to shoot down his plane was in revenge for the standoff.
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Hundreds of militant students under siege in a mosque in Pakistan's capital largely ignored calls from their captured leader to surrender on Thursday, raising fears that some children could be used as human shields.
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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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Religious scholars gathered outside a besieged Pakistani mosque on Monday to beseech Islamist militants to send out dead and wounded along with women and children, a day after authorities gave "a final warning" to surrender.
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A Pakistani cleric holed up in an Islamabad mosque said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, after three days of violence in which 19 people have died.
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The top cleric of a mosque being besieged by Pakistani forces urges students to surrender or flee.
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Several thousand Pakistani Islamists rallied on Friday to denounce the government for ordering an army crackdown on a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad.
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Thousands of Sunni Muslim radicals protested in a central Pakistani on city on Friday and vowed revenge for a bomb attack on a religious rally that killed 42 people
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The death toll in the governmentâs three-day siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad rose to 19, as reports emerged that the rebellionâs leader was offering to surrender.
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About 200 militant supporters of a renegade tribal chieftain blamed for attacking security forces and the country's main gas pipelines surrendered to authorities in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, an official said.
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Women and children were being used as human shields by militants besieged in a mosque in Islamabad, the Pakistan government said on Thursday as security forces ratcheted up pressure on hundreds inside to surrender.
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A cleric holed up in a Pakistani mosque said on Friday he and hundreds of followers were willing to surrender, but set conditions authorities rejected after three days of violence in which 19 people have died.