Islamabad's Red Mosque

Source: news.google.com --- 98 days ago
BBC News Profile: Islamabad's Red Mosque BBC News - 1 hour ago The controversial Lal Masjid or Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, is no stranger to violent confrontation. More than 100 people were killed in fighting there in July 2007 after Pakistani troops stormed the building to evict militants who ... Bomb Blast Kills Pakistani Police Near Red Mosque Protest Voice of America Blast in Pakistan capital kills more than 10 The Associated Press CNN  - Bloomberg  - Reuters India  - Telegraph.co.uk all 445 news articles ...

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast was heard in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday but the cause was unknown, a Reuters witness said. ...

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clipped by: Socratoad Clip Source: www.earthtimes.org Suicide attack kills 19 near Islamabad's Red Mosque - Summary Islamabad - At least 19 people, including 15 policemen, were killed Sunday in a suicide attack that targeted a group of law enforcers near a rally of hardline Islamists marking the anniversary of the storming of the notorious Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, officials said. "It was a targeted attack at security forces carried out by a suicide bomber," Islamabad's deputy commissioner Rana Abdul Jabbar said. Rao Mohammad Iqbal, police Chief of the nearby Rawalpindi city, told reporters that 19 people died while more than 40 were injured. Fifteen of those were policemen. The blast occurred shortly after thousands of Islamists concluded the rally that commemorated the first anniversary of the deadly July 10, 2007 "Operation Silence" against the heavily armed extremists entrenched in the Mosque. ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 13 days ago
Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military statistics Monday that underscored the ferocity of the threat facing the U.S. ally in the war on extremist groups. Meanwhile, heavy fighting between Pakistani troops and insurgents in the lawless tribal regions of the country's northwest has caused some 20,000 Pakistanis to flee across the border into Afghanistan, the United Nations said. Nuclear-armed Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks by Islamic extremists since the July 2007 army attack on militants holed up in Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, during which about 100 people were killed. The most recent major suicide attack was the Sept. 20 truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in the capital, which killed at least 54 people, including three Americans. Figures released at a military briefing Monday said 88 suicide attacks had taken place across Pakistan since the Red Mosque siege, killing 1,188 people. Of those, 847 were civilians and 341 were troops or police. More than 3,000 people were wounded. ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 13 days ago
Some of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani government or military targets since the siege of the Red Mosque in July 2007: - Sept. 22, 2008 - A suicide car bomber attacks an army post at Badain in the Swat valley, killing nine troops. - Sept. 20, 2008 - An army convoy is hit by a suicide car bomber in North Waziristan, killing three civilians and three soldiers. - Sept. 20, 2008 - A suicide truck bombing kills at least 54 people and wounds more than 250 at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. - Sept. 16, 2008 - A suicide bomber detonates his vehicle outside a security post in the Swat valley, killing three troops and wounding six. - Sept. 6, 2008 - A suicide car bombing kills at least 35 people and wounds 80 at a police checkpost on Kohat Road in Peshawar. - Aug. 23, 2008 - A car packed with explosives rams into a police station in Swat, killing six officers. - Aug. 21, 2008: Suicide bombers blow themselves up at two gates of a weapons factory in the town of Wah, killing at least 67 people and wounding at least 100. - March 11, 2008: Suicide bombs rip through a seven-story police headquarters and a house in Lahore, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200. - Feb. 29, 2008: Suicide bomber strikes funeral of slain police officer in Mingora town in the Swat valley, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 60. - Feb. 16, 2008: Suicide car bomber attacks election rally in Parachinar, killing 40 people. - Jan. 16, 2008 ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 98 days ago
Islamabad - At least 19 people, including 15 policemen, were killed Sunday in a suicide attack that targeted a group of law enforcers near a rally of hardline Islamists marking the anniversary of the storming of the notorious Red Mosque in Pakistan's... ...

Source: www.worldaffairsboard.com --- 13 days ago
---Quote--- *Zardari’s Palin flirt earns him a fatwa* Monday, September 29, 2008 03:24 IST * Lal Masjid cleric dubs Pak Prez’s gestures un-Islamic.* LAHORE: The prayer leader of the infamous Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a decree against President Asif Zardari for publicly making indecent gestures towards the American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during their Washington meeting, saying the act was un-Islamic and Zardari has shamed the entire Pakistani nation. Delivering a sermon at the Lal Masjid the other day, the prayer leader Maulana Abdul Ghafar, who is a close relative of the fanatic Red Mosque cleric Maujlana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed by security forces during Operation Silence in July 2007, said that President Zardari’s indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt is not only un-Islamic but also unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country. He said that the manner in which Zardari shook hands with Sarah Palin and expressed his deep desire to hug her is intolerable and shameful. “We are fighting the American war in our country and thousands of our people have been killed just to please Uncle Sam. Therefore, we demand that the military operation in the Pak-Afghan tribal areas be immediately stopped as it is creating hatred amongst the general public against the Pakistan army”, he added. The Lal Masjid prayer leader then ...

Source: www.washingtonindependent.com --- 10 days ago
Last week, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari chatted up Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations. By all accounts he didn’t even get her number. Still, Zardari’s game was too much for the leader of the radical Red Mosque, the Islamabad hotbed of extremism that last year got into a protracted gunfight with the authorities. [...] ...

Source: wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com --- 10 days ago
A radical Muslim prayer leader issued a fatwa against Pakistani President, Zardari, saying he shamed the nation for "indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt," referring to his meeting with Palin. When Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the United Nations, the meeting was friendly, with Zardari calling Palin "gorgeous," and telling her "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you." He also made remarks about hugging Palin if his handlers told him to. These comments outraged a "radical religious leader, enough to issue a fatwa, which according to the dictionary means an Islamic religious decree. The Mosque that issued the fatwa was the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, and the religious leaders comments about Zardari accuses him of "indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt," according to the Christian Science Monitor . Though the fatwa, issued days after the Sept. 24 exchange, carries little weight among most Pakistanis, it's indicative of the anger felt by Pakistan's increasingly assertive conservatives who consider physical contact and flattery between a man and woman who aren't married to each other distasteful. Though fatwas, or religious edicts, can range from advice on daily life to death sentences, this one does n ...

Source: www.france24.com --- 98 days ago
An explosion near the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad killed at least 10 people, according to a Pakistani official. The attack came on the first anniversary of the deadly siege and storming of the Red Mosque. ...