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People play with soccer ball in a park in the morning as smog envelops the area of Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Districts in Pakistan close parks and museums because of record-breaking smog

By Babar Dogar - Associated Press

Students wear mask and heading to their school as smog envelops the areas of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Record-high pollution sickens thousands in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore

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Students wear mask to protect themselves from poor air quality due to increasing smog in the city as they head to their school, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan shuts primary schools for a week in Lahore due to dangerous air quality

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Indian Sikhs shout slogans against Pakistan as they display photographs of Sarabjit Singh, center, a convicted Indian spy who was on Pakistan's death row, died from a head injury after two inmates attacked him with a brick in a Lahore jail, during a protest in Kolkata, India, Thursday, May 2, 2013. A Pakistani police official says an investigation has begun after a man suspected in a fatal attack on an imprisoned Indian national more than a decade ago was shot dead at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)

Pakistan probes murder of a man suspected in the 2013 fatal attack on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh

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Supporters of Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif' party 'Pakistan Muslim League-N' dance to celebrate their party victory in the initial results of the country's parliamentary election, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Delays, deals, nepo babies, trends and vote rigging: Five takeaways from Pakistan’s elections

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A woman casts her vote at a polling station during the country's parliamentary elections in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Pakistanis lined braved cold winter weather and the threat of violence to vote for a new parliament Thursday, a day after twin bombings claimed at least 30 lives in the worst election-related violence ahead of the contested elections. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Ex-Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif strikes confident note in vote marred by rival’s imprisonment

By Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A motorcyclist drives past a burning vehicle set on fire by angry supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, May 11, 2023. With Khan in custody, Pakistani authorities on Thursday cracked down on his supporters, arresting hundreds in overnight raids and sending troops across the country to rein in the wave of violence that followed his arrest earlier this week. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani police surround Imran Khan’s home, claim former leader is hiding suspects in recent riots

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Police officers stand guard to ensure security at the vicinity of police headquarters, where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is held and will appear in a temporary court set up by authorities for security reasons, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The opposition party of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Khan called for demonstrators to remain peaceful, hours after mobs angered over the dramatic mid-trial arrest set fire to the residence of a top army general in the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Imran Khan appears in court as Pakistan braces for violence

By Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Protected by a bulletproof barrier, former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 26, 2023, to pressure the government of Shahbaz Sharif to agree to hold snap elections. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani ex-PM Khan sets out economic rescue plan at rally

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FILE - In this July 16, 2018, file photo, I.A. Rehman, a founding member of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) addresses a news conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan. An iconic Pakistani human rights defender and journalist Rehman has died in the eastern city of Lahore, Monday, April 12, 2021, after a brief illness, his family and friends said. Rehman was about 90 and he spent the whole of his life defending human rights, opposing military dictators, fighting for the rule of law and democracy. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Pakistan’s iconic human rights defender I.A. Rehman dies

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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

Police officers gather next to a burning police vehicles that were set on fire by angry lawyers during clashes in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers, angered over alleged misbehavior of some doctors toward one of their colleagues last month, stormed a cardiology hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, setting off scuffles with the facility's staff and guards that left heart patients unattended for several hours. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan charges 250 lawyers for treason in hospital assault

By ZAHEER BABAR - Associated Press

Police: Explosion in eastern Pakistan kills 1, wounds 4

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A cyclist pushes his laden bike through smog, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Amnesty International issues &quot;Urgent Action&quot; saying every person in Lahore at risk. Heavy smog has enveloped many cities of Punjab province, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Rights group draws attention to heavy smog in Pakistan

By ZAHEER BABAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistani students stand outside their school which is closed due to poor air quality in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. The government ordered all schools in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore closed because of the poor air quality. A thick smog hung over the city of 11 million people on Thursday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Poor air quality closes schools in eastern Pakistan

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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 file photo, Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa addresses an anti-Indian rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani authorities say they have arrested Saeed, a radical cleric and U.S.-wanted terror suspect blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, just days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's trip to Washington. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan arrests US-wanted terror suspect in Mumbai attacks

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

Pakistani security personnel surround a damaged police van in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. A powerful bomb exploded near security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Suicide bombing outside Pakistan shrine kills 10

By Zaheer Babar - Associated Press

A Pakistani vendor waits for customers to sell balloons ahead of the Valentine's Day in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Celebrating Valentine's Day is considered "un-Islamic" by some in Pakistan, but many still exchange gifts with others. One university has rebranded it as "Sister's Day" and gained notoriety for doing so. (Associated Press)

At Pakistani university, rebranded Valentine’s Day leaves some heartsore

By Naila Inayat Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

Pakistani politician Mian Iftikhar, center, arrives at a residence of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to offer condolences for the death of Sharif's wife Kulsoom Nawaz, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Mourners have attended the funeral of the wife of Sharif in London, where she died at a hospital this week after months in critical condition. According to Sharif's family she will be buried in Lahore on Friday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Thousands attend funeral of Pakistani ex-PM’s wife in Lahore

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This late 1970's photo from the Naqvi &amp; Zaidi family album shows Fahmida Hasan Zaidi, second right, with her mother Alamdari Begum, left, daughter Kahkashan Naqvi, front, younger sister Khurshid Zaidi, nephew Shiraz Zaidi, right, and young AP reporter Muneeza Naqvi in Lucknow, India. Zaidi lives in New Delhi while the rest of her seven siblings live in cities across Pakistan. For them, a generation raised on the idea that relationships could be nurtured for long periods on the simple sustenance of letters, physical distance has brought pain, but not an emotional distance. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Family bonds survive India-Pakistan split, but for how long?

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press