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Officials reopened the Red Mosque for prayers Thursday, two weeks after it was battered by fierce clashes between security forces and Islamist militants that left more than 100 people dead.
The Red Mosque became a focal point for renewed violence as it opened for Friday prayers, with militants battling police and an apparent suicide blast nearby killing at least 13 people.
The captured chief cleric of a militant mosque led predicted that the deaths of the mosque’s defenders in an army raid would push Pakistan toward an “Islamic revolution.” President Gen ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The Red Mosque, where a siege involving Islamic militants ended in a deadly commando raid two weeks ago, will reopen Friday with a new coat of paint — in pale yellow ...
The Pakistani government said Monday that the militants holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad are wanted terrorists, but the president gave clerics more time to persuade the militants to give up ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For years, the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital has stood as a bastion of religious defiance, a nerve center of radical Islamist preaching that has drawn thousands of ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- About 36 hours after they stormed the Red Mosque in a blaze of gunfire, Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed the last ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Hundreds of students clashed with security forces and a nearby bombing killed 11 people Friday during the reopening of Islamabad’s Red Mosque for the first time si… ...
The bloodbath at Islamabad's Red Mosque continues to hang like a grim shadow over Pakistan's fractured politics and society, one year after the army moved against militants holed up there. More ...
Thousands of Islamists gathered Sunday in Pakistan's capital to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque. More than 3,000 people, including about two ...