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Peacocks roam on the lawn of historical building "Mohatta Palace," which was built in 1920s and has since been turned into a museum, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Traces of this Pakistani megacity’s past are vanishing, but one flamboyant pink palace endures

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A patient of heatstroke receives treatment at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Various parts of the country continued to experience an intense heat wave conditions, with the temperatures reaching 47 degree Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit) in Nawabshah and other cities, according to the press release of Pakistan Meteorological Department. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Doctors treat thousands of heatstroke victims in southern Pakistan as temperatures soar

By Muhammad Farooq - Associated Press

Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, April 19, 2024. Five Japanese nationals traveling in a van narrowly escaped a suicide attack when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Friday, wounding three passers-by, police said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

5 Japanese workers narrowly escape suicide bombing that targeted their vehicle in Pakistan

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Pakistani bride Dua Khan and groom Asher Khan pose for photo during their wedding ceremony at Radiance banqueting hall, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. There's a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banqueting hall in a middle-class Karachi neighborhood Voices are barely audible above the din of 400 guests, dinner service, music, and the drone whirring around the room. The bride and groom are beaming. Their families and friends jostle for a place with them onstage. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Brides, biryani and marriage multiplexes: Pakistan’s wedding season heats up in cool weather

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan and political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) attend an election campaign rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, less than two weeks before a national parliamentary election that Khan was blocked from running in because of a criminal conviction. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistani police use tear gas to disperse pre-election rally by supporters of former leader Khan

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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept 18, 2023. Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Earlier this month, the government in Sindh introduced a law that threatens to imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their children immunized against polio or eight other common diseases. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

By Adil Jawad and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Veterinarians from the global animal welfare group, Four Paws, lift up an elephant named "Noor Jehan" for her medical check-up at Karachi Zoo, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Foreign veterinarians visited the sickly elephant at the southern Pakistani zoo amid widespread concern over her well-being and living conditions. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Foreign veterinarians save sick elephant at Pakistani zoo

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Roadside bomb kills ranger, wounds 11 in southern Pakistan

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FILE - In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-Pakistani man accused in the 2002 killing of the American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan. In a dramatic turn of events, Sheikh, a man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of Pearl admitted a &quot;minor&quot; role in his death, upending 18 years of denials, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

Pakistan court orders release of man accused in Pearl death

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan. The U.S. on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, warned it won't allow the Pakistani Sheikh to evade justice after a provincial Pakistani court ordered his release. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

Lawyer seeks to free man acquitted in Daniel Pearl’s killing

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Members of Pakistan Hindu Council hold a protest against the attack on a Hindu temple in the northwestern town of Karak, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. Pakistani police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said. The temple's destruction Wednesday in the northwestern town of Karak drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan arrests 31 people over demolishing of Hindu temple

By RIAZ KHAN and MOHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

A volunteer sprays disinfectant in the main hall of St Paul's Parish in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, ahead of Christmas celebrations, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) ** FILE **

Each year 1,000 Pakistani girls forcibly converted to Islam

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Karachi Kings pacer Umaid Asif, left, celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Qalandars batsman Tamim Iqbal during the final of Pakistan Super League T20 cricket match at National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

England to tour Pakistan next October; 1st time since 2005

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Pakistan's troops and rescue workers look for survivors amid the rubble of a damaged building following the explosion, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Police and rescuers say a powerful blast has ripped through a multistory building in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Blast in multistory building kills 3, injures 15 in Pakistan

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

Local residents carry salvaged belongings as they wade through a flooded area during a heavy monsoon rain in Yar Mohammad village near Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Pakistan's military said it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Flash floods triggered by rain kill 15 people in NW Pakistan

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Local residents float through flooded area caused by heavy monsoon rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Heavy rains hit Pakistan's financial capital Karachi for a fifth straight night, bringing more flooding and killing some more people, officials said, as rescuers evacuated people from flooded neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Normalcy returning to Pakistan’s monsoon-drenched Karachi

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A boy uses half of a fiber tank to navigate a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Heavy monsoon rains have lashed many parts of Pakistan as well the southern port city of Karachi, leaving flooding streets, damaging homes and displacing scores of people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Monsoon rains wreak havoc across Pakistan, killing 36 people

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

Women carry a cot and a bucket as they wade through a flooded road during a heavy monsoon rainfall, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Three days of monsoon rains have killed dozens of people and damaged hundreds of homes across Pakistan, the country's national disaster management agency said Tuesday, as another spell of heavy rain lashed the port city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Army helicopters to pluck people from flooded Karachi city

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

People wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfalls in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Three days of monsoon rains have caused the deaths of dozens people and damaged hundreds homes across Pakistan, the country's national disaster management agency said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

3 days of rains in Pakistan kill 90, disrupt life in Karachi

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 7, 2011 file photo, a Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet is parked on the tarmac at a military base in Makassar, Indonesia. The spokesman of Pakistan’s national carrier said Wednesday, July 8, 2020, that the airline is firing 28 pilots found to have tainted licenses, the latest chapter in a scandal that emerged in the wake of the Airbus A320 crash in Karachi in May. An inquiry into the crash, which killed 97 people on board, resulted in the stunning revelation that 260 of 860 pilots in Pakistan had cheated on their pilots exams, but were still given licences by the Civil Aviation Authority. (AP Photo, File)

Pakistani carrier fires 28 pilots over fake licenses scandal

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press