Surrender call ignored at Pakistan mosque
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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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A Pakistani cleric at the centre of a seven-day siege at an Islamabad mosque on Monday held &quot;last-ditch&quot; talks over loudspeakers with ministers and Islamic leaders to end the crisis.
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Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a claim by the U.S. intelligence chief that Osama bin Laden and his deputy were hiding in northwestern Pakistan
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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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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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- After months of whipping his followers into a frenzy of anti government sentiment, the head cleric at a radical mosque was caught yesterday trying to leave his besieged compound clad in a head-to-toe veil known as a burqa, police said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  Najaf early on Saturday, but the whereabouts of their leader,  the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown.
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A radical cleric says his followers will not surrender as tensions mount at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque.
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Pakistan has rejected suggestions that it is not doing enough to stop attacks in Afghanistan by Taleban fighters and suspected members of al-Qaeda.
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More than 100 radical Islamic students holed up at an Islamabad mosque compound surrendered Wednesday morning, winding down an intense standoff between militants and government forces, a government source told CNN.
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A battle to end a standoff at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, left 8 security officers and 50 religious militants, including their ringleader, dead.
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Thousands of supporters of an outlawed Islamic militant group held a protest rally in central Pakistan Friday in defiance of a nationwide ban on public gatherings imposed
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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto accused the government Sunday of failing to crush Islamic militants, days after a suicide bombing killed 56 people during prayers in a mosque.
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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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The governmentâs siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad continued for a fourth day after the remaining clericâs offer to surrender was rejected.
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Islamic groups in Pakistan are denouncing a new effort by President Pervez Musharraf to resolve the dispute over Kashmir, the BBC reported Tuesday.