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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

In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, center, receives members of Taliban delegation at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Senior Taliban leaders are meeting with Qureshi in Islamabad as part of a push to revive an Afghanistan peace deal that has included stops in Russia, China and Iran. (Pakistan Foreign Office via AP)

Pakistan, Afghan Taliban call for resumption of peace talks

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Indian paramilitary soldiers keep guard outside the main telephone exchange building in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Indian government stripped the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir of its limited autonomy on Aug. 5. Authorities imposed a sweeping military curfew that's still in place, and cut off residents from all communication and the internet. Mobile phone services have yet to be restored. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Harsh Vardhan Shringla blasts Kashmir ‘disinformation’ from Pakistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Saudi, UAE diplomats arrive in Pakistan to discuss Kashmir

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

An Indian paramilitary soldier asks a Kashmiri motorcyclist couple to leave from a temporary check point during restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug 30, 2019. India on Thursday said it has information that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate terrorists into the country to carry out attacks amid rising tensions over New Delhi's decision to abrogate the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Prime minister says Pakistan will respond if India attacks

By MUNIR AHMED - 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.

Asad Majeed Khan calls on U.S. to pressure India on Kashmir curfew

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Indian soldiers stand guard in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Tensions have soared along the volatile, highly militarized frontier between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, as India has deployed more troops and ordered thousands of visitors out of the region. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

India government revokes disputed Kashmir’s special status

By Sheikh Saaliq and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, at the Residence of the Pakistani Ambassador in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pakistan PM says he’ll work with US on Afghanistan accord

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Press Information Department, visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, reviews guard of honor with Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Ghani has arrived on his first visit to Pakistan, in an attempt to forge a fresh relationship with Prime Minister Imran Khan's government and reach out to Islamabad for help in getting the Taliban to talk peace with Kabul.(Press Information Department,via AP)

Afghan president visits Pakistan, talks peace, renews ties

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on a sideline of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Saturday, June 15, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Pakistan thanks Qatar for planned $3 billion investment

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In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry official Aftab Khokhar, right, escorts visiting Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, center, for talks at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, June 2, 2019. Khalilzad has met Pakistani officials to find a peaceful solution to neighboring Afghanistan's war. (Pakistan Foreign Office via AP)

US envoy launches new push on Afghan talks with Taliban

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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, right, speaks during the Eid al-Fitr at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June. 4, 2019. Eid al-Fitr prayer marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president says he’ll visit Pakistan to improve ties

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 20, 2019 photo, an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Fist of the Fleet of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 25 lands on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jeff Sherman/U.S. Navy via AP)

The Latest: Japan PM mulls Iran visit to mediate crisis

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, walks to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, May 16, 2019. Iran’s foreign minister has said his country is committed to an international nuclear deal and criticized escalating U.S. sanctions “unacceptable” as he met with Japanese officials in Tokyo amid rising tensions in the Middle East.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Iran’s foreign minister in Pakistan amid tensions with US

By KATHY GANNON and AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019 file photo, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar gives a press statement in New Delhi, India. India on Saturday demanded that Pakistan take concrete steps against terrorists operating from its territory, while at the same time returning its top diplomat to Islamabad amid an easing of tensions between the nuclear rivals. Kumar said Saturday, March 9, that a reported Pakistani crackdown this week on seminaries, mosques and hospitals belonging to outlawed groups and arrest of dozens of people was not enough. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India returns key diplomat to Pakistan as tensions ease

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said Thursday that U.S. officials are well aware of recent counterterrorism arrests and other steps being taken by Pakistan, but suggested the administration remains wary of Islamabad's commitment against such groups as JeM. (Associated Press)

India says it told Pakistan of Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camp before airstrikes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Pakistani police officer stands guard outside a mosque belonging to a banned religious group in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Pakistan on Wednesday continued a crackdown on seminaries, mosques and hospitals belonging to outlawed groups, saying the actions were part of the government efforts aimed at fighting terrorism, extremism and militancy. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

India, Pakistan again target army posts, villages in Kashmir

By MUNIR AHMED and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Defense officials display a part of an air-to-air AMRAAM missile which was allegedly fired by Pakistani Air Force aircraft violating Indian airspace, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Indian Air Vice Marshal R.G.K. Kapoor said parts of the missiles which are carried only on F-16s were recovered within Indian territory. India said it shot down a Pakistani warplane, something Islamabad denied. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The Latest: Pakistan hands over captured pilot to India

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FILE- In this Aug. 29, 2016 file photo, an Indian paramilitary soldier walks past graffiti on a wall in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. As India considers its response to the suicide car bombing of a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir that killed dozens of soldiers on Feb. 14, 2019, a retired military commander who oversaw a much-lauded military strike against neighboring Pakistan in 2016 has urged caution. India blamed the attack on Pakistan and promised a &quot;crushing response.&quot; New Delhi accuses its archrival of supporting rebels in Kashmir, a charge that Islamabad denies. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Retired Indian general urges caution against Pakistan strike

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indians protestor shouts slogans against Thursday's attack on a paramilitary to the Indian soldiers killed in Thursday's attack on a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. The death toll from a car bombing on a paramilitary convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir has climbed to at least 40, becoming the single deadliest attack in the divided region's volatile history, security officials said Friday. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

AP Explains: What are India’s options after Kashmir attack

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press