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More than 500 radical Muslim students surrendered at a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Wednesday but thousands of militants remained inside a day after 11 people were killed in clashes. HT Image Hundreds of soldiers and police sealed off the mosque and imposed a 24-hour curfew after Tuesday s bloodshed, as the government extended a deadline for students to lay down arms. The violence erupted after a months-long stand-off between the authorities and a Taliban-style movement based at Lal Masjid less than a couple of kilometers a mile from parliament and Islamabad s protected diplomatic enclave. Soldiers moved 12 armored personnel carriers, mounted with ma stanley cup chineguns, in to the area as gunfire subsided overnight.Growing numbers of students took up an offer of safe passage and 5,000 rupees $85 and left the mosque as a deadline for students to surrender passed at 1.00 pm More than 500 peopl air force 1 e, 100 of them women and children, had left the mosque but between 2,000 and 5,000 people remained inside, officials said. The men who surrendered were herded stanley cup onto trucks while women and children were released. Liberal politicians have for months pressed President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on Lal Masjid s clerics, who have threatened suicide attacks if force was used against them. Deputy Interior Minister Zafar Warraich told an earlier news conference anyone who tried to fight would be shot. A bullet will be responded with by a bullet, he said. The violence comes at a bad ti