07-10-2007, 11:06 AM
<b>Pak launches massive attack on Lal Masjid</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Loud explosions rocked Islamabad minutes after talks between the Pakistan government and radicals broke down. Two security personnel are dead and 40 radicals are killed in a gunbattle, which is still going on.
The firing from both sides began around 0400 hours IST as soon as the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Shujaat Hussain in a brief nationally televised press conference said that talks had failed.
âThere is no information whether the chief cleric of Lal Masjid is dead or alive. But the militants are well armed. We will allow the media to go near the area soon,â Pakistan Army spokesperson Wahid Arshad said in a press conference
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The firing from both sides began around 0400 hours IST as soon as the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Shujaat Hussain in a brief nationally televised press conference said that talks had failed.
âThere is no information whether the chief cleric of Lal Masjid is dead or alive. But the militants are well armed. We will allow the media to go near the area soon,â Pakistan Army spokesperson Wahid Arshad said in a press conference
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