Mosque leaders defiant as surrender deadline passes

Leaders of a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan remained defiant today as a deadline calling for their immediate surrender passed, a day after clashes there killed at least nine people.

But more than 100 of their followers surrendered as army troops, some inside armoured personnel carriers, tightened their stranglehold on the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in the heart of Islamabad.