Pakistani Islamists rally against custodial killing, raids on seminaries
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Thousands of Islamists demonstrated across Pakistan after Friday prayers against the death of a cleric in detention over suspected links to Al Qaeda and against raids on seminaries.
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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.
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In Pakistan, some 10,000 mourners have gathered in Karachi for the funeral services of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics killed Saturday.
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MULTAN, Pakistan  - 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, despite a government move to ban such  gatherings.
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to retaliate against "infidel" Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the killing of a rebel cleric and a raid on his mosque in July, in a Web audiotape issued on Thursday.
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Al-Qaeda on Thursday urged Pakistanis to revolt against President Pervez Musharraf following the storming of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, in an audiotape posted on the Internet.
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MULTAN, Pakistan - Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Islamic radicals in central Pakistan before dawn Thursday, killing at least 33 people and injuring dozens in what appeared to be the latest in a string of sectarian attacks, police said.    The blasts came as about 3,000 people in Multan were marking the anniversary of the death of Maulana Azam Tariq, the leader of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba group...
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Al Qaeda militants in Iraq vowed   war on "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal   effigy on Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while   Western churchmen and statesmen tried to calm passions.
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Police in Pakistan were today braced for a violent backlash from Islamist militants after a suspected al-Qaida operative was killed in a raid at the weekend.
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A radical Pakistani mosque Saturday threatened forceful retaliation if the government launches an operation against it after President Pervez Musharraf said it housed suicide bombers.
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Pakistani Islamic scholars honoured Osama bin Laden Thursday in response to Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie, as a senior ruling party member said he would not hesitate to kill the novelist.
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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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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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Protests greet a leading Islamic cleric's opposition to new laws to protect women from rape within marriage.
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The Pakistan government blamed Islamist militants for twin blasts early on Friday that killed 133 people as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto drove through masses of supporters in Karachi.
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MULTAN (Pakistan) - A leader of a radical Sunni group blamed yesterday&#39;s bombings at a religious gathering on radical Shi&#39;ite Muslims.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Pakistani security forces launched a major operation Thursday against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.