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A Nasr missile is loaded on a military vehicle during the Pakistan National Day parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 23, 2015. (Associated Press)

Sohail Aman denies China helped Pakistan acquire armed drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's national police and soldiers guard near the area of a suicide attack on the police academy, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Two massive attacks in Kabul on Friday, one striking near a government and military complex in a residential area and the other a suicide bombing outside a police academy, killed at least 35 people, sending the strongest message yet to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani — that militants are still able to strike at his heavily fortified seat of power. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Ashraf Ghanim, Afghan president, calls on Pakistan to rein in Taliban

By Rahim Faiez and Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Syed Tariq Fatemi, special assistant on foreign affairs to Pakistan's prime minister, said his country is in constant contact with Iran about prospects for commercial ties. (Associated Press)

Pakistan banking on Iran trade bonanza after Obama nuclear deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistan's Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi arrives for the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Milan on Oct. 16, 2014. The two-day summit opens Thursday under the theme "Responsible Partnership for Sustainable Growth and Security." (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pakistan banks on bonanza from Iran nuke deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Saudi Arabia's Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A Pakistan envoy said his nation is eager for the U.S. to reach a nuclear accord with Iran so sanctions on Tehran can be lifted, but denied charges that Islamabad might provide nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia (Associated Press)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan envoy, denies any nuclear aid for Saudis

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghan security officers patrolled near a guesthouse targeted by Taliban in an overnight attack in Kabul last week. An all-night siege in an upscale neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital ended in the early hours of Wednesday with the deaths of four heavily armed Taliban attackers, though no civilians or security personnel were injured or killed, an Afghan official said. (Associated Press)

Taliban offensive tests Afghanistan-Pakistan intelligence-sharing deal

By Naila Inayat and Shirzad Ashoori - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives with his wife Peng Liyuan at Nur Khan airbase in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 20, 2015. Xi arrived for a two-day visit during which the two sides will launch an ambitious $45 billion economic corridor linking Pakistan's port city of Gwadar with western China. (Press Information Department via AP) ** FILE **

Ambassadors killed in Pakistan helicopter crash

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Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, leaves the Parliament building where Pakistani lawmakers discuss the crisis in Yemen, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April, 2015. Zarif is on a two-days visit to Pakistan to discuss the conflict in Yemen, where a Saudi-led air campaign supported by Pakistan is battling Iranian-supported Shiite rebels. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani lawmakers vote to stay out of Yemen conflict

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a news briefing at the Saadabad palace in Tehran in this Friday, April 3, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Hassan Rouhani of Iran warns: Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen a ‘mistake’

By Nasser Karimi and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, and released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Iranian warship Alborz prepares before leaving Iran's waters. (Associated Press/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad) **FILE**

Iran sends navy vessels to waters off Yemen, raising stakes

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani says his country's relationship with the U.S. is on a positive trajectory and is stronger than it has been than at any other point since the Osama bin Laden raid in May 2011. (Associated Press)

Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan ambassador, seeks increased U.S. pressure on India

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistani protesters burn a representation of a French flag during a protest against caricatures published in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. Pakistani students are clashing with police during protests against the French satirical magazine that was attacked last week for publishing images of the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan anti-Charlie Hebdo protest gets violent; AFP photographer shot

By Adil Jawad and Zarar Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers stand guard outside a mosque as authorities beefed up security in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 2, 2010, following suicide attacks on the shrine of Sufi Data Ganj Baksh in Lahore killing scores of people and left many injured. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Abid Mehmood, Muslim accused of blasphemy, gunned down near Islamabad

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Pakistani police officers escort Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, center, the main sispect in the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, after his court appearance in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec 30, 2014. Pakistani police have rearrested Lakhvi, officials said Tuesday, quashing expectations that he might be soon freed. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Mumbai terror suspect rearrested in Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael "Oz" Osmun, 27, of the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, refuels an MQ-1 Predator drone at Kandahar Air Field in Kandahar, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.

Suspected U.S. drone strikes kill 10 in Pakistan

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

A Pakistani police commando stands guard near the scene where NATO trucks were attacked in the Pakistani tribal area of Jamrud near Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, May, 5, 2014. A local Pakistani government official says militants have attacked a NATO supply convoy en route to Afghanistan, killing two drivers. (AP Photo/ Mohammad Sajjad)

Attacks kill 10 Pakistani troops; missile tested

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

An American national, center, reportedly working for the FBI, leaves a police station in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Pakistan released an FBI agent on bail Thursday after three days in custody, officials said, a move that is likely to prevent the situation from escalating into a diplomatic spat. The American man was detained after airport authorities found him carrying ammunition and three knives Monday as he was about to board a flight for the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.(AP Photo/Mohammad Khalil)

Pakistan frees FBI agent on bail

By ADIL JAWAD and KIM GAMEL - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 25, 2014 photo, supporters of a Pakistani religious group rally to support the Pakistan army and its Inter-Services Intelligence wing, ISI, in Lahore, Pakistan. A controversy has started as Pakistan's powerful military faces off with the country’s largest private television station over allegations that its forces were behind a shooting that seriously wounded Hamid Mir, one of its top anchors. But behind the chanting demonstrations and garish loyalty posters lies the deep challenge confronting Pakistan: Where does power lie in this country that’s undergone three military coups since independence, with its army or its nascent civilian government? (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

In Pakistan, signs praise spies as nation changes

By ZARAR KHAN and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistani journalists protest for their colleague Hamid Mir, who was shot and injured by gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, Monday, April 21, 2014 in Karachi, Pakistan. Police in Pakistan said gunmen shot the famous television talk show host amid a wave of attacks on journalists in the country. Police say Hamid Mir, a host on the private television broadcaster Geo, was wounded in the attack Saturday, April 19, 2014, near Karachi's airport. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan’s army wants TV news channel shut down

By ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

This undated file photo shows al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. (AP Photo, File)

‘Library of Osama bin Laden, the Martyr’: Pakistan names seminary for girls after dead terrorist

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press