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FILE - Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrive to attend a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Officials say Pakistan’s powerful army chief in a rare move this week, Saturday, July 30, contacted Washington, urging U.S. authorities to use their influence to secure an early release of a key $1.7 billion installment from the International Monetary Fund. The latest development comes as Islamabad struggles to stave off a deepening economic crisis. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan military chief seeks U.S. help on release of IMF loan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

An investor monitors a stock index on a screen while brokers work at their desks at the Pakistan Stock Exchange, which responded positively after the news of an International Monetary Fund bailout package, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, July 14, 2022. The IMF said Thursday it had reached a preliminary agreement with Pakistan to revive a $6 billion bailout package for this impoverished Islamic nation, which has been facing a serious economic crisis since last year. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

IMF reaches preliminary deal with Pakistan on $6B bailout

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A motorcyclist rides past the National Assembly where the session to choose the new prime minister continues in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 11, 2022. Pakistani lawmakers are to choose a new prime minister on Monday, capping a tumultuous week of political drama that saw the ouster of Imran Khan as premier and a constitutional crisis narrowly averted after the country's top court stepped in. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani lawmakers to elect new PM after Imran Khan ouster

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, center, speaks while other opposition parties leader watch during a press conference after the Supreme Court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan's bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by opposition lawmakers, who say they have enough support to oust him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani lawmakers elect Shahbaz Sharif as new premier

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 23, 2022. Pakistan’s embattled prime minister faces a tough no-confidence vote Saturday, April 9, 2022, waged by his political opposition, which says it has the numbers to defeat him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan’s embattled PM ousted in no-confidence vote

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard with riot gears outside the National Assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Pakistan's embattled prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Sunday and the opposition said it has the numbers to win after Imran Khan's allies and partners in a fragile coalition abandoned him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan president dissolves Parliament at PM’s request

By Kathy Gannon and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistan's Afghanistan Policies Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The key to Afghan peace lies in Pakistan’s pocket

By Wahab Raofi

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020 file photo, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pakistani rights groups are criticizing Khan after he claimed in an online show on Sunday, April 4, 2021, that wearing the veil — the traditional Islamic head covering — will protect women from sexual assault and not lead men into temptation. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Rights groups say Pakistan PM blames women’s dress for rape

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2018 file photo, chairman of the Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani speaks to reporters outside the Parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sanjrani was re-elected as chairman of the Senate, Friday, March 12, 2021. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Pakistan candidate backed by PM Khan elected Senate chairman

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2020 file photo, Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan. Prime Minister Khan handily won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on Saturday, March 6, 2021, days after the embarrassing defeat of his ruling party’s key candidate in Senate elections. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Pakistan’s PM wins vote of confidence after Senate setback

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

Various Pakistani news channels broadcast a live address to the nation by Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, at the office of The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan Thursday, March 4, 2021. Khan on Thursday announced he would seek a vote of confidence from the National Assembly this weekend to prove he still has the support of majority lawmakers in the house, despite the surprising and embarrassing defeat of his ruling party's key candidate in Senate's elections. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani opposition to boycott confidence vote for PM Khan

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2020 file photo, Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan. Khan will seek a vote of confidence from the National Assembly later this week to prove he enjoys the support of majority in lower house of the parliament despite the defeat of his ruling party's key candidate in the Senate's elections a day before, a Cabinet minister said, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani PM to seek vote of trust from parliament this week

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Lawmakers arrive to cast their vote in senate elections, at the provincial assembly, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Pakistani lawmakers are choosing new members of the country's Senate, or upper house of parliament — a vote that is seen as a test for Prime Minister Imran Khan's government. Khan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party is seeking to improve its standing in the 104-member Senate, where it lacks a majority. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Former Pakistan PM wins Senate election in setback to gov’t

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects a Guard of Honor upon his arrival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Khan is in Sri Lanka for a two day official visit. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Imran Khan invites Sri Lankan Buddhists to visit Pakistan

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

In this May 29, 2010, photo, people from a minority Muslim Ahmadi community stand guard as others prepare to bury the victims of an attack by Islamic militants, in Rubwah, 93 miles northwest of Lahore, Pakistan. President Joe Biden has appointed philanthropist Susie Gelman to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the White House announced Friday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) **FILE**

Pakistani Shiites end protests, hold funeral for 11 miners

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

People from the Shiite Hazara community gather around coffins of coal mine workers killed by gunmen near the Machh coal field, during a sit-in to protest, in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Pakistan's prime minister Friday appealed the protesting minority Shiites not to link the burial of 11 coal miners from Hazara community who were killed by the Islamic State group to his visit to the mourners, saying such a demand amounted to blackmailing the country's premier. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani PM asks Shiites to bury coal miners killed by IS

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

People from the Shiite Hazara community gather around the bodies of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani Shiites continue sit-in over killing of 11 miners

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Global tech giants threaten to leave Pakistan over new rules

Associated Press

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, left, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani attend a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Ghani on Thursday met with Khan in the capital Kabul to discuss Afghan peace talks, to build trust and strengthen relations between both Afghanistan and Pakistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Pakistan’s PM Khan in ‘historic’ first visit to Afghanistan

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2020 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan apologized for retweeting an anti-government statement from an opposition leader who suggested Prime Minister Imran Khan would fall from power in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election defeat. In its tweet on Wednesday, the embassy said its Twitter account had been accessed without authorization. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

US Embassy in Pakistan apologizes over political retweet

Associated Press