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    The siege of Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد محاصرہ; code-named Operation Sunrise) was an armed confrontation in July 2007 between Islamic fundamentalist militants...
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  • Lal Masjid or Red Mosque may refer to: Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque, Pettah, Sri Lanka Lal Masjid, Islamabad, Pakistan Siege of Lal Masjid, 2007 2008 Lal Masjid...
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    Human shield (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2023)
    militants used girls as human shields in Pakistan during the 2007 Siege of Lal Masjid. The mosque's head cleric denied the allegations. On 4 December 2009...
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    Khatib of Lal Masjid and the President of Faridia University. Prior to this, he had also briefly served as a diplomat for UNESCO. He was the son of Muhammad...
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  • In the Lal Masjid bombing of 6 July 2008 at 7:50 pm local time, a 30-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up near the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad,...
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    The Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد; transl. Red Mosque) is a congregational mosque located in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is located near Abpara...
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    Pakistani Taliban and become the part of it in 2007 aftermath the siege of Lal Masjid. The group's stated objective is to overthrow the Pakistani government...
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    List of Mahdi claimants List of modern conflicts in the Middle East List of wars involving Saudi Arabia Sack of Mecca of 930 Siege of Lal Masjid Operation...
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    of the Solar Temple, 1994 2000 Uganda cult massacres, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, Uganda, 2000 Siege of Lal Masjid,...
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    Pakistani Islamic scholar of the Deobandi movement who serves as the Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid, Islamabad, which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani...
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    from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011. "Siege of Pakistan's Lal Masjid ends". Al Jazeera. 11 July 2007. Archived from the original...
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    attached note accusing him of spying for the United States and being responsible for killing people during the Siege of Lal Masjid. Qureshi and his driver...
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    which had a magnitude of 7.6. Islamabad has experienced a series of terrorist incidents including the July 2007 Siege of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), the June...
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  • day: 48 years since spaghetti house six day siege". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-03. "Johannesburg Siege Ends; Police Hold Israeli Agent". www.nytimes...
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  • Fazlullah (militant leader) (category Leaders of Islamic terror groups)
    cadres then began moving into the Swat Valley. In the aftermath of the 2007 siege of Lal Masjid, Fazlullah's forces and Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-e-Taliban...
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    of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf. The instigators seized control of the civilian government of...
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  • Gaza–Israel conflict Siege of Lal Masjid (2007) – War in North-West Pakistan Siege of Baidoa (2008) - Somali Civil War Siege of Misrata (2011) – First...
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    Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (category Ministers of railways of Pakistan)
    militants in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Siege of Lal Masjid and has been on the hit list of militants. He was left devastated by this embarrassing...
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  • (Albania), part of the 1997 rebellion in Albania Operation Sunrise, a 2006 approach to the hyperinflation of banknotes of Zimbabwe Siege of Lal Masjid, code-named...
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    almost all military operations, including the Iraq War, Siege of Lal Masjid, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Khan views the Kashmir conflict as a humanitarian...
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    framework and limitations. For instance, during the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, the Metropolitan Police formally turned responsibility over to the British...
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    Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi (category Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
    and theologian who served as Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee and as the first Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid, and founded Jamia Faridia University and...
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    Fazlullah, his son-in-law, assumed leadership of the group. In the aftermath of the 2007 siege of Lal Masjid, Fazlullah's forces and Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban...
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    Pakistan was also experiencing growing levels of violence from Islamist militants, such as the Siege of Lal Masjid. Official figures held that eight suicide...
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  • Baitullah Mehsud (category Deaths by drone strikes of the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan)
    extolled the virtues of jihad against foreigners and advocated taking the fight to the U.S. and to Britain. After the siege of Lal Masjid in July Baitullah...
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  • Ilyas Kashmiri (category People of the Soviet–Afghan War)
    President Musharraf. From his release in February 2004 until the 2007 Siege of Lal Masjid he apparently did little, but later returned to the 313 Brigade in...
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    area in 2003. The business activity at the park was affected by the Siege of Lal Masjid (located near by) in 2007 and later due to a suicide blast in 2008...
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    the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the supreme commander of the army. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), a four-star...
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    Lal Masjid (lit. "Red Mosque") of Delhi, also known as the Fakr-ul Masjid (lit. "Pride of Mosques") or Sikandar Sahib's Masjid, is a mosque located in...
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  • Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2007 (category Lists of terrorist incidents in Pakistan by year)
    PIPS report shows visible increase in suicide attacks after the siege of Lal Masjid. 15 January:- A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp destroyed...
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