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In this photo handout photo released by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, bumps elbows with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi prior their meeting, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Russia's foreign minister is in Pakistan for a two-day visit expected to focus on efforts to bring peace to neighboring Afghanistan. Lavrov's visit comes as a May 1 deadline for U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan in line with a deal Washington signed a year ago with the Taliban seems increasingly unlikely. (Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Russia to boost ties with Pakistan, supply military gear

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2017 file photo, Khadim Hussein Rizvi, head of 'Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, a religious political party, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Rizvi, a radical religious cleric, who led tens of thousands in anti-France around the country, died Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. His spokesman and a doctor at the hospital where Rizvi died said he was suffering from COVID-like symptoms but was not tested for the virus. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Radical Pakistani religious cleric dies after leading sit-in

By BABAR DOGAR and ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

Supporters of 'Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, a religious political party, take a rest while blocking a main road during an anti-France rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. The supporters are protesting the French President Emmanuel Macron over his recent statements and the republishing in France of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani Islamists’ anti-France sit-in ends peacefully

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

Pakistan's military spokesman Maj. Gen. Babar Iftikhar, right, briefs to media while Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi listens during a joint press conference regarding on going tension between Pakistan and India, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Pakistani and Indian troops clashed in disputed Kashmir, causing casualties and wounding more than 30 others on both sides, officials said. The fighting came amid increasing tension between the South Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan says it has evidence of India sponsoring attacks

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

Supporters of the Muslims Students Organization stand on a representation of a French national flag and defaced images of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the president and against the publishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Muslims have been calling for both protests and a boycott of French goods in response to France's stance on caricatures of Islam's most revered prophet. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

As anger rises, Muslims protest French cartoons

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Pakistani clerics give approval to Hindu temple construction

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Families gather at the graves of their relatives, adorned with their pictures, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept 14, 2020. Scores of friends and families of students who were killed in local conflicts are gathering in a cemetery to call for a permanent countrywide ceasefire from the parties to the intra-Afghan peace conference taking place in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US envoy lauds Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace talks process

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Members of Women Democratic Front chant slogans during a rally to condemn the incident of rape on a deserted highway, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. Pakistani police said they detained 15 people for questioning after two armed men allegedly gang raped a woman in front of her children after her car broke down on a deserted highway near the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan arrests suspect accused of raping woman on highway

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

Pakistani official who went missing last week returns home

Associated Press

A member of a social media rights group displays pictures of actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed's music video meant to depict a young bride’s joy that as shot in a mosque and went viral on the internet, at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The video infuriated religious radicals who inundated social media with claims that Qamar’s dancing sullied the historic Wazir Khan Mosque. The uproar was the latest example of how trolling has exploded online in Pakistan since a lockdown, imposed in March over coronavirus concerns, confined tens of millions to their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) **FILE**

Trolls flood social media in Pakistan amid virus lockdown

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The top Taliban negotiator says the group's chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations. The Taliban official spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban negotiators visit Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan: There’s reason to be ‘optimistic’ about Afghan peace prospects

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Kaneez Sughra, wife of kidnaped prominent Pakistani journalist Matiullah Jan, shows a picture her husband to journalists at a relative's home, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Jan, known for his hard hitting criticism of the country's powerful institutions, including its military, is missing, human rights groups and a family member said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani journalist recounts ordeal, abduction by armed men

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Elizabeth Lal, a Christian woman who was injured and her son-in-law Nadeem Jordon killed by gunmen because he rented in a Muslim neighborhood, shows a picture of Jordon on her mobile during an interview with the Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, July 9, 2020. Analysts and activists say minorities in Pakistan are increasingly vulnerable to Islamic extremists as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Minorities under attack as PM pushes ‘tolerant’ Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2020 file photo, supporters of Pakistani religious group rally to celebrate the signing agreement between United States and Taliban, in Quetta, Pakistan. Washington's annual terrorism report says Pakistan is doing too little to counter terrorist groups particularly those taking aim at enemy India as well as the dreaded Haqqani network operating in Afghanistan. Islamabad bristled at the criticism saying it has been relentless in its assistance to Washington as it be negotiated for more than a year with the Taliban for a peace deal signed on Feb. 29. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt,file)

US report: Pakistan doing too little to counter terrorism

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2019 file photo, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses during the inauguration ceremony of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan. Khan accused the United States on Thursday, June 25, 2020, of having &quot;martyred&quot; al-Qaida leader and the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary,file)

Pakistan’s prime minister says US ‘martyred’ bin Laden

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

India expels 2 Pakistani embassy officials on spying charges

Associated Press

Pakistan government spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan consults with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 16, 2020. Khan said Monday he fears the new coronavirus will devastate developing nations' economies, and warned richer economies to prepare to write off the debts of the world's poorer countries. In an interview with The Associated Press he also called for an end to sanctions on Iran saying they were crippling the poor nation's ability to even contain the spread of the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan PM warns new virus may devastate developing nations

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate arrived at Nur Khan base in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. They are on a five-day visit, which authorities say will help further improve relations between the two countries. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Prince William, Kate kick off five-day Pakistan tour

By B.K. BANGASH and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, left, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, talk to each other during a meeting in Moscow, Russia. Taliban officials say several of the group’s members have been freed from Afghan jails, including former shadow governors, the first move of its kind since a peace deal that seemed imminent was declared “dead” and just days after a U.S. envoy met with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other top Taliban leaders in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban say Afghanistan has freed several of their prisoners

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press