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Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

By Fazel Rahman Faizi - Associated Press

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif visits Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in the holy city of Medina in western Saudi Arabia and performs prayers with his delegation late Thursday, April 28, 2022. Pakistan’s newly elected prime minister was visiting Saudi Arabia Friday on his first foreign trip since taking office, an attempt to boost economic relations with the wealthy, oil-rich kingdom as Pakistan struggles with huge debt, soaring inflation and a worsening energy crisis. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

New Pakistan PM on 1st trip to Saudi amid political division

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers and journalists gather near a burned van at the site of an explosion, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The explosion ripped through a van inside a university campus in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing several people including Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, officials said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Suicide blast in southern Pakistan kills 3 Chinese, driver

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, center, speaks while other opposition parties leader watch during a press conference after the Supreme Court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan's bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by opposition lawmakers, who say they have enough support to oust him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani lawmakers elect Shahbaz Sharif as new premier

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

A motorcyclist rides past the National Assembly where the session to choose the new prime minister continues in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 11, 2022. Pakistani lawmakers are to choose a new prime minister on Monday, capping a tumultuous week of political drama that saw the ouster of Imran Khan as premier and a constitutional crisis narrowly averted after the country's top court stepped in. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani lawmakers to elect new PM after Imran Khan ouster

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 23, 2022. Pakistan’s embattled prime minister faces a tough no-confidence vote Saturday, April 9, 2022, waged by his political opposition, which says it has the numbers to defeat him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan’s embattled PM ousted in no-confidence vote

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard with riot gears outside the National Assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Pakistan's embattled prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Sunday and the opposition said it has the numbers to win after Imran Khan's allies and partners in a fragile coalition abandoned him. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan president dissolves Parliament at PM’s request

By Kathy Gannon and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Prime Minister Imran Khan, center in seated, top military officials, Chinese military officials, Chinese diplomates and Pakistan Air Force pilots pose for photograph in front of Chinese-built J-10C fighter jets during a ceremony in Minhas Base near Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, March 11, 2022. Pakistan's air force officially inducted its first batch of Chinese-built J-10C fighter jets on Friday, holding a ceremony with officials from both sides in Islamabad. (Press Information Department via AP)

Pakistan air force inducts new batch of Chinese fighter jets

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left, and Bharatiya Janata Party President J.P. Nadda arrive at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Modi's Hindu nationalist party has a commanding lead in crucial state polls, despite his government's criticized handling of COVID-19, soaring unemployment and farmer protests. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India blames technical error for missile firing that landed in Pakistan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Rescue workers and volunteers gather at the site of bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, March 4, 2022. A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 45 worshippers and wounding dozens more, many of them critically, police said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Bombing of Shiite mosque in Pakistan kills at least 45

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP)

What does Pakistan’s prime minister hope to get out of his Olympic visit to China?

By Jianli Yang

Pakistani mother Shahana with her husband Ajoon Khan sit next to photos of their son Asfand Khan, who was killed in a 2014 assault by Pakistani Taliban militants on an army public school, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Each year on Jan. 17 Shahana bakes a cake and invites friends to her home to sing happy birthday, even light a candle but it's a birthday without the birthday boy, she says. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan Taliban turn blind eye to Pakistani militants

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

China Media Control of Pakistan Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Rising Chinese dominance over Pakistan media signals information colonization

By Jianli Yang

Hassan Khawar, right, spokesman for the Pakistan's Punjab government, and Punjab police chief Rao Sardar brief journalists regarding initial investigation on lynching of a Sri Lankan citizen, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Police arrested 13 suspects and detained dozens of others in the lynching of a Sri Lankan employee at a sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo)

Police: Pakistan detains scores in lynching of Sri Lankan

By Babar Dogar - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Biden is set to kick of more urgent campaign for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots on Dec. 2, as he unveils a his winter plans to combat the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Host’s headache: Invite list for Biden’s democracy summit proves divisive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghan families sit outside their tents in an open area on the outskirts of Chaman, a border town in the Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Wednesday, Sept.1, 2021. Dozens of Afghan families have crossed into Pakistan through the southwestern Chaman border a day after the U.S. wrapped up its 20-year military presence in the Taliban-controlled country. (AP Photo/Jafar Khan) **FILE**

Feds announce $1 million reward to disrupt immigrant smuggling network from Afghanistan, Pakistan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, left, and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, right, walk towards a meeting room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Sherman was meeting senior Pakistani officials Friday amid a worsening relationship between the two countries as each tries to navigate a way forward in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs vis AP)

US, Pakistani officials in strained talks over Afghanistan

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

A local resident looks his damaged house following a severe earthquake hit the area, in Harnai, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Pakistan. A powerful earthquake shook parts of southwestern Pakistan early Thursday. (AP Photo)

Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23

By Kathy Gannon and Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is shown ahead of a meeting at the EU Charlemagne building in Brussels, in this Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, file photo. Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been stashing away their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 different firms located around the world. The report released Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP, File)

Leaked ‘Pandora’ records show how the powerful shield assets

By Michael Liedtke and Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2021, file photo Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, left, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, on the sidelines of the 76th UN General Assembly in New York. The Taliban's takeover of Kabul has deepened the mutual distrust between the U.S. and Pakistan, two putative allies who have tangled over Afghanistan. (Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S., Pakistan face each other again on Afghanistan threats

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press