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An army vehicle moves past a welcoming billboard with portraits of China's Premier Li Qiang, center, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari, displayed along a road leading to the venue of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan hosts a major security meeting this week as it struggles against rising insurgent violence

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A vehicle is seen on fire at the site of an explosion that caused injures and destroyed vehicles at outside the Karachi airport, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Farooq)

A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport

By Adil Jawad and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

People look burnt vehicles, torched by gunmen after killing passengers, at a highway in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rahmat Khan)

Gunmen kill 31 people in 2 separate attacks in southwestern Pakistan; 12 insurgents also killed

By Abdul Sattar and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

People walk through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Heavy rains hit Pakistan’s south, as deaths from flash floods and downpours jump to 209 since July

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Prime Minister Office, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, left, shakes hand with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif after their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. The head of the U.N. refugee agency met with Sharif in the capital, Islamabad to discuss problems faced by the Afghan refugees, who have been living in the country in a state of uncertainty since last year when Islamabad started expelling foreigners, officials said. (Prime Minister Office via AP)

U.N. chief meets Pakistan’s premier to discuss the situation of Afghan refugees following clampdown

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, and Bushra Bibi, his wife, speak to the media before signing documents to submit surety bond over his bails in different cases, at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023. An appeals court in Pakistan Thursday, June 27, 2024 upheld the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife for their 2018 marriage which was found to be unlawful, officials said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

An appeals court in Pakistan upholds conviction of Imran Khan and his wife for unlawful marriage

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A student eats ice lolly as she leaves with others after school, as authorities announced reduced school hours due to soaring temperature, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Weather forecasters warn Pakistanis to stay indoors ahead of new heat wave

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A man takes a selfie on the bank of a stream, which is overflowing following heavy rains, on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024. Lightnings and heavy rains killed dozens of people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities declared a state of emergency in the country's southwest following an overnight rainfall to avoid any further casualties and damages. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Lightning, rains kill 49 in Pakistan as authorities declare a state of emergency in the southwest

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Paramilitary soldiers search a car at a temporary checkpoint on a road in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Pakistani authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces across the country ahead of the massive Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan deploys more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces ahead of Eid al-Fitr

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle on Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. (AP Photo)

Pakistani police arrest 12 people over a suicide bombing that killed 5 Chinese workers

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle on Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. (AP Photo)

Pakistan to perform DNA testing on the remains of the suicide bomber who killed 5 Chinese nationals

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

In this photo released by Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, meets with newly elected Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2023. Pakistan's lawmakers have chosen Zardari as the country's new president. It's his second time in the job. Zardari is the widower of assassinated former Premier Benazir Bhutto and the father of former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, (Prime Minister Office via AP) ** FILE **

Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan, killing 8 people

By Munir Ahmed and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a press conference regarding parliamentary elections, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly elected Sunday, March 3, Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Shehbaz Sharif becomes Pakistan’s new premier as Imran Khan’s allies in parliament allege rigging

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan listens to a member of the media during a talk with reporters regarding the current political situation and the ongoing cases against him at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, on Aug. 3, 2023. A Pakistani court on Wednesday, Jan. 31, sentenced Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison for corruption, a day after another special court convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 14-year prison sentence in third conviction

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile, that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, are displayed during a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 23, 2022. The nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear arsenals and several deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapon systems in 2022, a Swedish think tank said Monday June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan launches retaliatory airstrikes in Iran after an earlier attack by Tehran, killing 9 people

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People attend the funeral of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Masoodur Rehman Usmani in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2024. Thousands of mourners attended a funeral Saturday for a Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric gunned down in broad daylight on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, police and a spokesman for the cleric's organization said. (AP Photo/W.K. Yousafzai)

Swiss ski star Odermatt dominates to win World Cup giant slalom in the fog at home in Adelboden

Associated Press

As Pakistan cracks down on illegal migrants, nearly half a million Afghans have left, minister says

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Police officers try to control immigrants, mostly Afghans, gather to verify their data at a counter of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Pakistan government launched a crackdown on migrants living in the country illegally as a part of the new measure which mainly target all undocumented or unregistered foreigners. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Analysts warn that Pakistan’s anti-migrant crackdown risks radicalizing deported Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Pakistani premier tries to reassure Afghans waiting for visas to U.S. that they won’t be deported

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Afghans retrieve useful stuff from their damaged mud homes demolished by authorities during a crackdown against an illegal settlement and immigrants, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps

By Munir Ahmed and Riaz Khan - Associated Press