BBC
Troops in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, have stormed a controversial mosque after talks with hardline Islamists inside broke down.
The army says 40 militants and three soldiers have been killed.
"It is a final push to clear the place of armed militants," said military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad.
Students at the mosque and its attached religious schools have been defying the authorities for months in their campaign for Sharia law in the capital.
They have kidnapped policemen as well as people they consider to be involved in immoral, un-Islamic activities.
Security forces began a full-scale siege of the mosque last week, not long after mosque students abducted seven Chinese workers they accused of running a brothel......
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