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In this March 29, 2016 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. The army said in a statement Monday, April 10, 2017, that Jadhav was sentenced to death on charges of espionage and sabotage. Pakistan says Jadhav was an Indian intelligence official who aided and financed terrorist activities. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Illustration on dystopian Pakistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 23, 2016 file photo, a Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile is on display during a military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan vowed Tuesday, March 14, to prevent non-nuclear states from gaining the technology that would enable them to start down the path to acquiring nuclear weapons, even though both Islamabad and neighbor New Delhi have defied non-proliferation treaties to become competing nuclear powers. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 2, 2017 file photo, Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistan's prime minister for foreign affairs, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan vowed Tuesday, March 14, to prevent non-nuclear states from gaining the technology that would enable them to start down the path to acquiring nuclear weapons, even though both Islamabad and neighbor New Delhi defied non-proliferation treaties to become competing nuclear powers. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

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Vehicles carrying Afghan nationals, travel through Pakistan's famous Khyber Pass en route to neighboring Afghanistan in Pakistan, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Thousands of Afghans gathered at the Pakistani border to return home on Tuesday as Pakistan temporarily reopened two main crossings that had been closed last month after a wave of militant attacks. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

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Afghan children play in a refugee camp situated in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Authorities have also rounded up nearly 100 Afghan refugees in the southwestern city of Quetta, saying they were residing in the country illegally. Pakistan is home to an estimated 2.5 million Afghan refugees who have fled decades of conflict in their country. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Pakistani students light candles to condemn the attack on a shrine in interior Sind province, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of worshippers and left hundreds of people wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani students light candles to condemn the recent attack on a shrine in interior Sind province, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of worshippers and left hundreds of people wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani para-military soldiers stand alert after a deadly suicide attack at the shrine of famous Sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of worshippers and left hundreds of people wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

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A Pakistan Navy soldier stands guard while a loaded Chinese ship prepares to depart, at Gwadar port, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) west of Karachi. Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. Pakistan's top civil and military leaders opened a new international trade route by seeing off a Chinese ship that's exporting goods to the Middle East and Africa from the newly built Gwadar port in the country's low-insurgency wracked Baluchistan province. (AP Photo/Muhammad Yousuf)

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FILE - In this Friday, April 25, 2008 file photo, Pakistani Petroleum Minister Khawaja Mohammed Asif, right, shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Murli Deora after their joint news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's Defense Minister says its nuclear-armed rival India will "disintegrate" when the people living in disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir got independence from New Delhi. Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 that Pakistan will continue to extend moral support to Kashmiri people in their struggle. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, center, being greeted by supporters at outside his residence in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2016. A joint raid by U.S. and Afghan forces on Tuesday rescued his son who was held captive for three years by Islamic militants, officials said. Ali Haider Gilani was found during the raid near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, according to a spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Pakistan's religious schools, or madrassas, are facing renewed scrutiny as festering grounds for radicalism. Nearly 200 such suspect Islamic schools have been closed throughout Pakistan since January 2015. (Associated Press)

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Members of the Indian Youth Congress burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protest against his visit to Pakistan in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Modi arrived in Pakistan on Friday, his first visit as prime minister to the Islamic nation that has been India's long-standing arch rival in the region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Pakistani police officer and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. The suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan killed more than a dozen people and wounded many, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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Pakistani police officer and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. The suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan killed more than a dozen people and wounded many, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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Pakistani commandos arrive at an air force base in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked an air force base on the outskirts of Peshawar early Friday, triggering a shootout that left at least 20 wounded and six of the attackers dead, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif made headlines this month by engaging in a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of economic and security summits in the Russian city of Ufa. (Associated Press)

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People rush to buy food to break their daylong Ramadan fast at a fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) ** FILE **