Pakistan Initiates Talks With Cleric at Besieged Mosque
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- After saying for days that it would not negotiate with the radical cleric at the center of the Red Mosque siege, President Pervez Musharraf's government on Monday night sent a high-level delegation to the mosque's front gate for talks.
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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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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Islamists besieged at an Islamabad mosque to surrender or be killed Saturday, amid claims that a bid to shoot down his plane was in revenge for the standoff.
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Pakistani forces set off &quot;warning&quot; blasts and knocked down the door of a pro-Taliban mosque Thursday, prompting militants to hurl grenades and open fire as tension mounted in a two-day siege.
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Pakistani and Indian officials began two days of talks in Islamabad Tuesday, focusing on nuclear confidence-building measures. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said experts from both sides
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces launched an operation last night against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a monthslong standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.
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Attempts to negotiate an end to a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque failed to make progress on Monday, a day after authorities gave Islamist militants inside a "final warning" to surrender.
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Radical Islamists inside a mosque surrounded by Pakistani security forces issued a call over a loudspeaker on Tuesday for their followers to begin suicide bomb attacks.
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ISLAMABAD, July 10  - Negotiations to an end a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque ran into deadlock on Tuesday after earlier speculation that a deal might be struck, the chief government negotiator said.
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The Pakistan government has set a deadline of 11 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Wednesday for militant students at a mosque in the capital to surrender after 11 people were killed in clashes a day earlier, a spokesman said.
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Pakistan tightens security as minority Shias prepare to bury a top cleric killed in a suspected sectarian attack.
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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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After decades of distrust and blaming each other for fueling militancy, Indian and Pakistani officials began their first ever talks on Tuesday on how to fight terrorism together.
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Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf is appealing to moderate Muslims to stand up and confront Islamic extremists who are promoting terrorism.
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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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Iraqi political leaders arrived in the embattled city of Najaf Tuesday on a mission to persuade rebellious Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr to disband his militia, vacate a religious shrine and participate in the country's political process.
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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.