Human shield fear grows over besieged Pakistan mosque
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Small groups of radical students trickled out from Islamabad's besieged Red Mosque on Thursday, despite warning blasts overnight, raising fears hardcore militants were keeping some children as human shields.
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A radical cleric besieged at a mosque in the Pakistani capital refused to surrender to the government Thursday, a day after his brother was arrested while trying to sneak away disguised in a burqa.
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The leader at a mosque besieged by Pakistani forces in Islamabad is caught trying to escape wearing a burqa.
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ISLAMABAD -- Fears deepened yesterday about the fate of hostages reportedly being held by Islamic militants inside a besieged radical mosque in the heart of the capital.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 -- Pakistani security forces on Thursday launched an intense operation against militants holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned deadly in recent days.
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A Pakistani minister says wanted militants, including some from abroad, are inside a besieged Islamabad mosque.
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Pakistani Muslim clerics said on  Monday they were making a last-ditch bid to avert an assault on  militants holed up in a mosque after authorities issued what  they said was a last warning for them to surrender.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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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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An attack in Lahore, the first since Bhutto's assassination, raises fresh worries about security for Feb. 18 elections.
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A deadline for militant students to surrender at a Pakistan mosque passed on Wednesday, as hundreds of troops surround the building in the capital.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- A day after the death of a senior Pakistani commando, government officials said Sunday that the fighters holed up inside an Islamabad mosque are well-trained and well-armed radicals with connections to known terrorist groups.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Security forces ringing a besieged mosque pummeled Islamic radicals with gunfire on Friday, as concern grew that many of those still inside -- including children -- were being held against their will.
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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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Heavy exchanges of fire erupted on Friday between Islamist militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque and security forces after the militants' leader said he and his hundreds of followers would rather die than surrender.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 12 -- In the fire-singed prayer hall of the Red Mosque on Thursday, pinpricks of sunlight filtered through hundreds of bullet holes in the corrugated tin roof while soldiers in combat boots stood at attention.
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Two large explosions shake a radical mosque in Islamabad that is under siege by Pakistani security forces.