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Members of Pakistan’s Frontier Corps attempt to manage the massive flow of people across Friendship Gate, the main border crossing in Chaman, Pakistan. An average of more than 20,000 Afghans and Pakistanis make the cross-border trip each day. (Carlo Muñoz/The Washington Times)

Donald Trump border wall calls echo in Pakistan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

"We should negotiate with anyone who is reconcilable," including elements of the Haqqani Network, Afghan National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar, told the Times shortly after a breakfast round table with reporters at the Afghan embassy in Washington on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Haqqani Network peace talks backed by White House

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Pakistan celebrates National Day with military parade

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

A vacant lot, leveled during the two-year Pakistani offensive against the Haqqani network lies dormant in the North Waziristan city of Miran Shah. Small placards indicate the property's ownership claims, should they return to the provincial capital. (Carlo Muñoz/The Washington Times)

Pakistan ousts terrorists, rebuilds border region

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this March 12, 2018 photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, shakes hands with former Pakistan's adviser on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad, Pakistan. Iran’s foreign minister has wrapped up a trip to Pakistan in which he made a surprise offer to let Islamabad take part in a major port project funded by Pakistan’s archrival India. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Iran invites Pakistan to join port project with India

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 file photo, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, left, welcomes Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif for their talks in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. As Pakistan navigates its troubled relationship with the United States and scrambles to avoid being blacklisted for doing too little, too late to stop terrorist funding, regional alliances are shifting and analysts ponder whether a cozier relationship with countries, like Russia, will complicate efforts to plot a path to peace in Afghanistan and civility between uneasy neighbors.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Shifting alliances as Pakistan manages relationship with US

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Donald Trump will have line item restoring Pakistan aid in 2019 budget: Source

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan critical to Trump Afghanistan war plan, top official says

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Wais Ahmad Barmak, interior minister, left, and Masoom Stanekzai Afghanistan's intelligence chief, right, speaks during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. At the news conference Wais Ahmed Barmak said they has given neighboring Pakistan confessions and other proof that the militants who carried out a recent series of attacks were trained in Pakistan and that Taliban leaders there are allowed to roam freely. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president slams Pakistan for harboring Taliban

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

US drone kills 2 militants from Haqqani network in Pakistan

By HUSSAIN AFZAL - Associated Press

Mohammad Mashal was attacked and killed by fellow Abdul Wali Khan University students who accused him of sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and the mere suspicion of blasphemy is enough to ignite deadly mob violence in the Muslim-majority country. (Associated Press/File)

Pakistan’s Islam blasphemy laws hurt U.S. relations

By Naila Inayat - Special to The Washington Times

In this Jan. 4, 2018 photo, Pakistanis activists of civil society protest against U.S. President Donald Trump in Lahore, Pakistan. A senior Pakistani senator has expressed disappointment at the U.S. decision to suspend military aid to Islamabad, saying it will be detrimental to Pakistani-U.S. relations. Nuzhat Sadiq, the chairwoman of the Senate Foreign Affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, says Islamabad can manage without the United States as it did in the 1990s, but would prefer to move the troubled relationship forward.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) **FILE**

Pakistan’s ‘double game’ manipulation of U.S. will — and should — end soon

By Jeff M. Smith

In this March 27, 2008, file photo, the Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Pentagon maintaining close ties to Pakistan, despite harsh White House sanctions

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

US official: $2B at risk in suspension of aid to Pakistan

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

State Department announces indefinite freeze on security aid to Pakistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Supporters of Pakistani religious groups rally to condemn a New Year's Day tweet by President Trump in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday. Trump slammed Pakistan for 'lies & deceit' in a tweet that said Islamabad had played U.S. leaders for 'fools'. (Associated Press)

U.S., Pakistan trade angry charges as relations falter

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

First lady Melania Trump looks on as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after arriving for a New Year's Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Perils abroad, full plate at home, as Trump opens 2nd year

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, journalists look a image of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in March 2016, during a press conference by Pakistan's army spokesman and the Information Minister, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017, New Delhi has officially informed Islamabad that the wife and mother of Jadhav, who faces death penalty for espionage and sabotage are arriving in the capital for a meeting with him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

India chides Pakistan for treatment of officer’s family

By ASHOK SHARMA and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, journalists look a image of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in March 2016, during a press conference by Pakistan's army spokesman and the Information Minister, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017, New Delhi has officially informed Islamabad that the wife and mother of Jadhav, who faces death penalty for espionage and sabotage are arriving in the capital for a meeting with him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan prepares for convicted Indian spy’s family meeting

Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis responds to a reporter's question during a meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

James Mattis seeks more cooperation with Pakistan on terror fight

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press