Pakistan boosted security on Saturday fearing further attacks a day after a suicide bombing during protests at Islamabad's pro-Taliban Red Mosque killed 14 people.
Congressional negotiators have agreed on legislation that would tie U.S. aid to Pakistan to significant progress by Islamabad in cracking down on al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militants, congressional sources said on Thursday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of policemen during clashes at the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, killing at least 12 people, most of them police, officials said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of policemen during clashes at the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, killing at least ten people and wounding many more, officials said.
Hundreds of Islamists occupied Pakistan's Red Mosque Friday, painting the walls their original colour and clashing with police as the official reopening after an army assault descended into chaos.
Hundreds of Islamists occupied Pakistan's Red Mosque on Friday, painting the walls in their original colour and wrecking the official reopening of the complex after a bloody army assault on militants.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Friday firmly rejected US threats to strike militants holed up near the Afghan border, saying that American forces will not be allowed to operate in the area.
July 27 (Bloomberg) -- As many as 13 people were killed in a bombing near Pakistan's Red Mosque in the capital Islamabad, about two weeks after the army ended a siege by Islamists at the complex that threatened President Pervez Musharraf's authority.
Islamists occupied Pakistan's Red Mosque and began repainting its walls in their original colour after it reopened following this month's bloody army raid, an AFP reporter and police said.
Angry Muslims chased a government-appointed religious leader from Pakistan's Red Mosque after it reopened for Friday prayers just over two weeks after a deadly army raid on Islamic militants.