Pakistan govt rejects mosque surrender offer
620744
Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged Pakistani mosque early Friday after the government rejected a conditional surrender offer by a cleric it accused of using women and children as human shields.
645370
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.
286518
Hamas on Saturday rejected demands by PLO leaders that its government resign over the failure to form a moderate coalition acceptable to the West &#151; a sign of an intensifying power struggle between Islamic militants and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas.
230200
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.
519190
A cleric holed up in a Pakistani mosque said on Friday he and his followers would choose "martyrdom" rather than arrest, hours after the government spurned his request for safe passage.
289986
A radical cleric says his followers will not surrender as tensions mount at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque.
28599
Pakistan's leader rejects an MoD research paper suggesting his spy service has helped al-Qaeda.
221048
Pakistan has rejected reports it had withdrawn troops from a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan suspected to be a hideout for Al-Qaeda leaders, the US State Department said.
15034
President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque on Saturday to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the besieged compound in the Pakistani capital.
762433
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.
309261
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.
85162
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.
392829
At least 700 students surrender at a mosque which security forces are besieging in Pakistan's capital.
399089
Pakistan's government responded angrily Friday to a group of retired military commanders who appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to resign in order to promote democracy and combat religious militancy.
68152
Troops surrounding a radical mosque in Islamabad deny entry to politicians seeking to broker a negotiated deal.
34870
Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr rejected one of the government's two key demands, increasing the prospect of an intensified military attack against his militia.
301734
Pakistani officials Monday rejected optimistic statements by a top US counter-terrorism official that progress is being made in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.