Pakistan counts costs of bloody end to mosque siege
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Pakistan counted the human and political cost on Wednesday of an armed assault that killed a rebel cleric and at least 50 Islamist fighters and eight soldiers at an Islamabad mosque after a week-long siege.
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President Pervez Musharraf's government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a signal that Islamic extremism won't be tolerated in Pakistan.
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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.
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Pakistani security forces secured a mosque and school complex in Islamabad on Wednesday, snuffing out the last pockets of resistance a day after an assault that killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 militants.
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Pakistani troops have taken over the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, after a hard core of militant students held hundreds of hostages in the Islamabad compound.
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More than 30 people were killed in  northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence  which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando  assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 33 people in Pakistan on Thursday, as a militant backlash intensified following the army's storming of radical mosque in Islamabad earlier this month.
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ISLAMABAD-- Positions hardened in the standoff at the Red Mosque yesterday as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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Forty people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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Pakistani security forces tightened their noose round a mosque in Islamabad on Sunday after President Pervez Musharraf told militants barricaded inside to surrender or die.
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Twenty-five people were killed in  northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence  which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando  assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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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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At least 22 people have been killed and dozens more injured in what police say was a suicide attack at a crowded Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Pakistan.
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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.
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Security forces storm radical mosque in Islamabad  in an effort to end bloody week-long siege.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The fate of scores of hostages was still not known late yesterday after elite Pakistani commandos fought their way room by room into a heavily fortified radical mosque , killing the chief cleric and more than 50 of his armed followers and arresting dozens more.
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in a Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege.