Pakistani mosque chief caught as troops lay siege
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a bloody stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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Islamist students holed up in an Islamabad mosque fought gunbattles with Pakistani security forces on Friday after the militants' leader said he and hundreds of his followers would rather die than surrender.
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Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday.
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Pakistani security forces captured and wounded top Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah in southwestern Pakistan early on Monday, a police chief said.
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Pakistani troops in Islamabad begin an operation to clear militants from the Red Mosque, after talks fail.
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Pakistani security personnel have captured the mastermind of a militant Islamic group who allegedly kidnapped three UN workers in Afghanistan.
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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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Pakistani security forces have arrested the Taliban's former defence minister, the most senior figure from the Islamist regime to be captured since it fell in 2001, security officials said Friday.
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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.
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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Pakistani security forces have  arrested the head of an Afghan militant group responsible for  kidnapping three U.N. workers in neighboring Afghanistan, the  information minister said on Saturday.
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Radical preacher caught trying to sneak through Pakistani army cordon wearing a burka.
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A cleric allegedly holding women and children hostage at an Islamabad mosque has dropped demands for safe passage and proposed that he be kept under house arrest, a minister said late Monday.
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Security forces besieging a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital captured its top cleric Wednesday as he tried to sneak out of the complex in a woman's burqa, and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered.
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Pakistani security forces tightened their noose around a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Sunday after President Pervez Musharraf told militants barricaded inside to surrender or die.
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Troops cornered the last remaining militants in the Red Mosque complex after an assault on the compound that began Tuesday, a spokesman said.
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The top cleric of a mosque being besieged by Pakistani forces urges students to surrender or flee.