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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

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

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

Security is beefed up outside the prime minister house during a meeting of all political parties and the military leadership to hash out new counter-terrorism policies, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pakistan's prime minister says the country will set up special trial courts under the supervision of military officers to prosecute terrorism cases in the wake of the Taliban school massacre. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan to set up military courts for terrorism

By Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Young targets: Hospital security guards carried out the dead and wounded after the Taliban launched one of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed an army-run school that teaches children in grades one through 10. (Associated Press)

Pakistan school massacre counters assertions Taliban crippled by U.S. drone strikes

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pakistan terror: 141 dead in Taliban attack at Peshawar school

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani protesters beat a police officer during a clash in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Anti-government protesters stormed Pakistan’s state television building Monday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed closer to the prime minister’s residence. The violence comes as part of the mass demonstrations led by Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan that demand Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s premier challenged by raging protests

By ZARAR KHAN and ASIF SHAHZAD - 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

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, center, flanked by his bodyguards, talks to reporters at an undisclosed location in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan along Afghanistan border. The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process. Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the top leadership of the militant group has instructed all of its units to comply with the cease-fire. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

Pakistani Taliban announces 1-month cease-fire

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, negotiators from Pakistani Taliban committee, from left, to right Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq and Maulana Abdul Aziz, listen to a reporter during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan-Taliban peace talks: What’s at stake?

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

People look at the wreckage of a passenger bus destroyed in a bomb blast in the Mastong district, near Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. A roadside car bomb hit a bus of Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran, killing several people and wounding many, in restive Baluchistan province, said a top security official. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani air force pounds militant hide-outs

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, stands in front of MRAP vehicles after speaking with U.S. troops at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Hagel spoke with U.S. troops and thanked them for being deployed for the holidays. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Hagel to meet with Pakistan’s prime minister

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, arrives to pray at a mosque in the party's headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Nov, 11, 2013. The Pakistan army condemned the prominent Islamic political leader Hasan who called the Pakistani Taliban chief killed by a U.S. drone strike a martyr. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Suspected U.S. drone kills 1 in Pakistan; no intention of throttling back attacks

By Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

President Barack Obama listens during his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. In the rocky relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan, the mere fact that Obama and Sharif sit down is seen as a sign of progress. Few breakthroughs are expected on the numerous hot-button issues on their agenda Wednesday, including American drone strikes and Pakistan's alleged support of the Taliban. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pakistani leader calls for end to U.S. drone strikes in meeting with Obama

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Obama likely to deny Pakistani request to stop drone strikes

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2013, file photo Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pauses during a joint press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. American and NATO supply routes to Afghanistan are open in Pakistan. Controversial U.S. drone strikes are down. The U.S. and Pakistan recently announced the restart of their "strategic dialogue" after a long pause. And Sharif is traveling to Washington for talks and a meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23, with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

U.S. releases $1.6 billion aid package to Pakistan

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

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Embassy Row: Gibralter seeks rock-solid backing from U.S.

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Outgoing Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (center) reviews honor guards during a farewell ceremony at President House in Islamabad on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. Mr. Zardari is stepping down at the end of his five-year term, becoming the first democratically elected president in the country's history to complete his full tenure in office. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari steps down as his term ends

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

Inside China: China, Pakistan reach deal on ‘economic corridor’

By Miles Yu