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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)
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Pakistan is prepping a major oil pipeline to run through Iran while its neighbor and rival, India, begins talks with Tehran on a shipping port. (Associated Press)
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A Pakistani security official displays cartridges he collected from the scene of an attack on a bus, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Gunmen killed dozens of people on Wednesday aboard a bus in southern Pakistan bound for a Shiite community center, in the latest attack targeting the religious minority, police said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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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 **
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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)
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Members of Pakistan's civil society chant slogans against the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen in Lahore. Pakistan's defense minister confirmed a request for soldiers Monday, raising the possibility of a ground offensive (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A deal to curb Iran's nuclear programs and ease economic sanctions on Tehran would be seen as "extremely positive" by Pakistan and many other countries in the region, Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Jalil Abbas Jilani told a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor just an hour before the Israeli leader began speaking on Capitol Hill.
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A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child at a bus terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Feb. 16, 2015. While vaccine distrust has sparked debates amid a measles outbreak in the United States, Pakistan is in a deadly battle to wipe out polio. Long eradicated in the West, polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, attacks targeted medical staffers and suspicions lingered about the inoculations. (Associated Press)
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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)
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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)
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President Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter is signaling to lawmakers that instability in such countries as Libya and Yemen may require additional counterterrorism operations similar to the ones being conducted by the U.S. military on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. (Associated Press)
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From Afghanistan and borderlands of Pakistan to Iraq and North Africa, radical Islamists eager to spread their strict interpretation of the Muslim faith and topple Western values have bombed, beheaded and slaughtered — undermining the White House narrative and raising questions about its strategy. (Associated Press)
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A Pakistani woman who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas carries firewood home during a sandstorm in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Pakistani Christian girl buys a cross at a shop outside a local church on Christmas Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Chris Marvin (left) was an Army helicopter pilot before suffering numerous injuries in a 2004 crash on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Never one to go down without a fight, Mr. Marvin spent years recuperating and became managing director of Got Your 6, a nonprofit that works to inspire and assist other combat veterans like himself.
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Pakistani students pray during a special ceremony for the victims of Tuesday's school attack in Peshawar, at a school in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) ** FILE **
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Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium the day after Taliban gunmen stormed the school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan mourned as the nation prepares for mass funerals Wednesday for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban massacre in a military-run school in the country’s northwest in the deadliest and most horrific attacks in years, officials said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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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)
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Mourners and relatives of teacher Saeed Khan, a victim of a massive Taliban attack at a school, prayed around his body during his funeral procession in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Associated Press)
