The IBNLive.com website has this story today and it starts off like this... Militant students of Lal Masjid, and madrassas attached to it, exchanged gunfire with paramilitary soldiers in Islamabad on Tuesday morning. Some teargas shells were also fired... The student movement is seeking to impose Taliban-style social values in the Pakistani capital...
Read the story at link below...Lal Masjid Gunbattle Rages On, Death Toll Rises To 6.
>>> The adnki.com website reports... The death toll from the clashes between Pakistani security forces and radical Islamic students in central Islamabad is mounting, with at least ten confirmed deaths, including policemen, students and a journalist...
Read the rest of the story below...PAKISTAN: DEATH TOLL FROM CLASHES MOUNTS.>>> HindustanTimes.com is reporting...Explosion rocks Lal Masjid area.**********
* Pakistani Clashes *
A Pakistani soldier was killed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Tuesday when radical students from a local mosque clashed with security forces.
The crowd outside the mosque 00:00-00:05
A gunman loading his magazine 00:05-00:14
A gunman wearing gas mask behind barricades 00:14-00:22
Masked gunmen 00:22-00:27
Smoke bombs exploding, people carrying guns and sticks running 00:27-00:51
Burka-clad women carrying sticks shouting slogans in support of students 00:51-01:06
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Abdul Rashid Ghazi has agreed to hold talks after the President [President General Pervez Musharraf] announced the former PM would broker them... Officials say a Pakistani cleric under siege in a mosque in the capital, Islamabad, has agreed to hold talks with seven top religious leaders, overseen by a former prime minister. Abdul Rashid Ghazi made the concession after President Pervez Musharraf authorised Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who served as prime minister for three months in 2004, to broker the "last-ditch" negotiations to end the week-long stand-off...
