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People from the Shiite Hazara community gather around the bodies of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani Shiites continue sit-in over killing of 11 miners

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Early morning light falls on Pir Panjal mountains between India-Pakistan Line of Control (LOC) of Balakot in Poonch, about 250 kilometers (156 miles) from Jammu, India, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. From sandbagged Indian army bunkers dug deep into the Pir Panjal mountains in the Himalayas, villages on the Pakistan-controlled side of Kashmir appear precariously close, on the other side of the Line of Control that for the past 73 years has divided the region between the two nuclear-armed rivals. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AP Photos: Indian army patrols border with rival Pakistan

By CHANNI ANAND - Associated Press

Pakistani court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple

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Supporters of the civil society group, Jammu Kashmir Forum, take part in a demonstration to mark, The Right to Self-determination Day,&quot; in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2020. Dozens of Kashmiris activists living Pakistan rallied in the capital, Islamabad, urging the United Nations to ensure the provision of right of self-determination to them as per its decades-old resolution on Kashmir. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Kashmiri activists rally in Pakistan, demand referendum

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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., gestures while speaking before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, Friday, July 12, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Andy Biggs’ bill seeks to strip Pakistan of special U.S. ally status

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People from the Shiite Hazara community chant slogans beside caskets of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, during a sit-in protest, in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Baluchistan province early Sunday, a Pakistani official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani Shiites rally against killing of coal miners by IS

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

Members of Pakistan Hindu Council hold a protest against the attack on a Hindu temple in the northwestern town of Karak, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. Pakistani police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said. The temple's destruction Wednesday in the northwestern town of Karak drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan arrests 31 people over demolishing of Hindu temple

By RIAZ KHAN and MOHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan. The U.S. on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, warned it won't allow the Pakistani Sheikh to evade justice after a provincial Pakistani court ordered his release. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

US says it won’t allow Pearl murder suspect to evade justice

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Mob led by Islamists demolishes Hindu temple in NW Pakistan

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A volunteer sprays disinfectant in the main hall of St Paul's Parish in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, ahead of Christmas celebrations, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) ** FILE **

Each year 1,000 Pakistani girls forcibly converted to Islam

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 2019, file photo, health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. The task of vaccinating millions of people in poor and developing countries against COVID-19 faces monumental obstacles, and it's not just a problem of affording and obtaining doses. Rumors flew about the Ebola vaccines, including the idea they were meant to kill people, said Dr. Maurice Kakule, an Ebola survivor who worked in vaccination campaigns. Similar suspicions are spreading about the COVID-19 vaccine, he said. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Wars, instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations

By KATHY GANNON and ANDREW MELDRUM and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Militants attack checkpoint in Pakistan, killing at least 7

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

Pakistan army: Indian fire kills woman, wounds 3 in Kashmir

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, a thick blanket of early morning fog partially shrouds the skyscrapers of the Marina and Jumeirah Lake Towers districts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Travel agencies in countries across the Middle East and Africa say the United Arab Emirates has temporarily halted issuing new visas to their citizens, a so-far unexplained ban on visitors amid both the coronavirus pandemic and as the UAE normalizes ties with Israel. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

UAE top diplomat acknowledges visa restrictions on Pakistan

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Pakistan warns India against ‘false flag’ attacks in Kashmir

By BY MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves after appearing in a court in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's information minister said Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 that Islamabad has started a legal process to reach an extradition treaty with Britain that would pave the way for the U.K. to hand over Pakistan's former Prime Minister Sharif. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan starts legal process for ex-PM Sharif’s extradition

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2018 file photo, released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's President Arif Alvi speaks to journalists prior to departing to Turkey, in Islamabad, Pakistan. On Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, Alvi issued a much-awaited new law requiring the establishment of special courts to speedily conclude trials of people charged with raping women or children, a move hailed by rights activists. The law must be endorsed by Parliament to remain in effect. It also prohibits the disclosure of the identity of rape victims. (Press Information Department via AP, File)

Pakistan issues new law for speedy trials of alleged rapists

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Many African, Asian families marry off daughters amid virus

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2020 file photo, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefs to media during a press conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Qureshi on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 demanded the United Nations and the European Union investigate a recent report that exposed a 15-year disinformation campaign to serve India's interests and discredit Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan asks UN to probe fake pro-India NGOs, media

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press