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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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    The Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد; transl. Red Mosque) is a mosque located in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is located near Abpara Market. It was...
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    was the reason why he always carried a Krinkov (AK-47). During the Siege of Lal Masjid, Pakistan Army Special Forces (SF), Pakistan Army Rangers, and Special...
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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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    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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    Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, Uganda, 2000 Siege of Lal Masjid, Pakistan, 2007 August 2013 Rabaa massacre, Egypt, 2013 Arrest of Sant Rampal...
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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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    2007 aftermath the siege of Lal Masjid. The group's stated objective is to enforce Sharia law in Pakistan. The group took over much of Swat in 2007. It...
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  • sermon preacher at Lal Masjid, Islamabad, which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army. He is also the current Chancellor of Jamia Hafsa and...
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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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    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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    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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  • conclusion to hostage drama". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved 2023-12-07. "Sydney siege: Police should have stormed cafe sooner, coroner rules". BBC News. 2017-05-24...
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    the legislative framework and limitations. such as the Iranian Embassy siege, the British police formally turned responsibility over to the Special Air...
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    Khan also opposes almost all military operations, including the Siege of Lal Masjid. In 2014, when Pakistani Taliban announced armed struggle against...
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    the adjoining Lal Masjid were owned by two brothers and clerics, Maulana Abdul Aziz and Abdul Rashid Ghazi, until the Lal Masjid siege started; in the...
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    Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (category Minister of Railways (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The Islamabad High Court (IHC) is the senior court of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, with appellate jurisdiction over the following district...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • President of Pakistan, subverted and suspended the writ of the Constitution of Pakistan, dismissing the fifteen justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan...
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  • National Reconciliation Ordinance (category Supreme Court of Pakistan cases)
    President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, on 5 October 2007. It granted amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of corruption...
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