The consequences were immediate and deadly when last-minute negotiations at Islamabad’s besieged Red Mosque failed Monday night. A group of religious and political leaders, including former Prime ...

After days of battle, Pakistani forces stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad Tuesday, killing at least 60 people, including hard-line cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi. A reporter in the region provides an ...

A suicide bomber on Friday killed at least thirteen people and wounded dozens of others in an explosion near Islamabad's Red Mosque, after violence erupted when the government reopened the religious ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 4 -- -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 4 -- A long-simmering standoff between the government and a radical mosque in the heart of the Pakistani capital exploded into a vicious ...

A standoff follows a bloody encounter between Pakistani security forces and militant Islamic students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad. A Taliban-style movement headquartered in the mosque, drawing on ...

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 ...

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Nearly two years after the arrest of Abdul Aziz on multiple charges of inciting violence against the state of Pakistan, the firebrand cleric of Islamabad’s radical Red Mosque has returned to the ...

In the first of a series of conversations based on their reporting from Pakistan, senior correspondent Margaret Warner and producer Simon Marks discuss their interviews with deposed premier Nawaz ...

Text description provided by the architects. Inspired by the simplicity of the first mosque in Islam, the mosque in Madina, the Red Mosque takes on a true pavilion form. An array of large six metre ...

The controversial Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) is again the focus of a bloody confrontation between Pakistani security forces and radical students in the centre of the capital, Islamabad. In the latest ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - About 2,000 Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber ...