Walls blown as cleric dreams of Pakistani revolution
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Pakistani commandos blew holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday in hope hundreds of women and children could escape, while security forces besieged a revolutionary cleric leading Islamist gunmen inside.
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Explosions and heavy gunfire stopped Islamist politicians from entering a besieged Islamabad mosque on Saturday, on a mission to persuade a radical cleric to send out children among his hundreds of militant followers.
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Thousands attend the funeral of a Pakistani cleric who died in controversial circumstances.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is fighting to maintain control of Pakistan in the face of rising Islamic militancy and a secular pro-democracy movement.
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Terrorists wanted for attacks in Pakistan and beyond are leading the resistance against troops besieging a radical Islamic seminary, the government said Sunday, while a mosque spokesman claimed hundreds died in an overnight assault.
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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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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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Protesters in Pakistan are back on the streets calling for Musharraf to go.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's most revered cleric arrived  in Najaf Thursday to try to end a bloody three-week uprising as  tensions were inflamed by attacks on Shi'ite marchers that  killed at least 74 people and wounded 315.
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There has been a big protest in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi against the rule of the country&#39;s president, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistani opposition leader Asif Zardari tells supporters his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto, came to him in a dream
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Thousands of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's opponents demonstrated in several Pakistani cities Thursday, the first street protests since a burst of political violence deepened a crisis clouding his plans to stay in power.
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I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf met top officials Monday to consider an assault on Islamic militants holed up inside a mosque, as clerics made a last-ditch bid to end the week-long siege peacefully.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- The head of a radical mosque besieged by government forces in the heart of Pakistan's capital rejected calls for an unconditional surrender Friday, saying he and his die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.
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Explosions and heavy gunfire stopped  Islamist politicians from entering a besieged Islamabad mosque  on Saturday, on a mission to persuade a radical cleric to send  out children among his hundreds of militant followers.