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This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. (AP Photo/File)

Pakistan bans Chinese app TikTok over unlawful content

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

A villager displays a picture of Ali Hassan, a suspect in an attack on two people with a meat cleaver in Paris last month, in his native village of Kotli Qazi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Hassan is in jail in Paris, but just three years ago he started out like other young men who leave Pakistan for Europe with dreams of a better life. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Before attack, a Pakistani teen sought better life in France

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani police arrest 2 men on charges of terror financing

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 10, 2019 file photo, former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari leaves the High Court building, in Islamabad, Pakistan. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, a Pakistani court charged Zardari in two corruption cases, escalating the legal challenges facing the now leading opposition lawmaker and widower of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The development came as Zardari’s party and a key anti-government ally were preparing for a massive rally against Prime Minister Imran Khan later this month. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Pakistan officially charges ex-president Zardari for graft

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistani military kills 2 militants in North Waziristan

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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2019, file photo, Professor Mohammad Ismail, father of Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, holds a photo of his daughter in Islamabad, Pakistan. Ismail, an elderly human rights worker said Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 that his wife and their daughter, who has already fled to America after being targeted by the country's powerful military for investigations into rights abuses by solders, faces a fresh wave of terrorism related charges. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistani rights worker: Charges against family unfounded

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Indian army soldiers guard on top of their armored vehicle as they return from an overnight gun-battle with suspected rebels at Samboora village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Two suspected rebels were killed and a soldier was injured in the overnight gun-battle, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India says Pakistani shelling kills 3 soldiers in Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Abdullah ended a three-day visit to Pakistan optimistic the uneasy neighbors had turned a corner away from a relationship marked by suspicion and downright hostility toward one akin to a partnership for peace in the region. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Envoy pushes Pakistan to press Taliban to lessen violence

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Faisal Siddiqi, center, a lawyer for the family of Daniel Pearl, an American Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, leaves the Supreme Court after an appeal hearing in the Pearl case, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The much-awaited court hearing against the acquittal of a British Pakistani man and three others in the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Pearl, was delayed for a week on Tuesday when judges could not take up the case due to the absence of a prosecutor whose mother died recently, a defense lawyer said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s top court accepts appeal by Daniel Pearl’s family

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this picture provided by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, second left, is accompanied by Pakistani officials upon his arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Afghanistan's top official in negotiations with the Taliban arrived in Pakistan's capital Monday on a three-day trip during which he will meet with the country's prime minister and other government officials. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Top Afghan negotiator in Taliban talks arrives in Pakistan

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistan Hindus rally in Islamabad over India migrant deaths

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistan says Indian fire killed 2 soldiers in Kashmir

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Pakistan says Afghan cross-border fire kills soldier

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Pakistani news channels telecast live of Pakistan's ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressing to an opposition parties meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2020. Sharif broke a yearlong silence from exile in London to vow to oust Imran Khan from office, accusing him of only reaching power through a vote rigged by the country's powerful military. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan opposition, backed by ex-premier, to protest Khan

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2017 file photo, local officials visit the gold and copper mine site, in Reko Diq district in southwestern Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Pakistani officials say on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, an international tribunal has granted it a stay pending a final decision on a $5.8 billion penalty. The fine was imposed for denying a mining lease to an Australian company. (AP Photo/Naseem James, File)

Int’l tribunal stays $5.8B fine on Pakistan in mining case

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Faisal Siddiqi, center, a lawyer for the family of Daniel Pearl, an American Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, leaves the Supreme Court after an appeal hearing in the Pearl case, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The much-awaited court hearing against the acquittal of a British Pakistani man and three others in the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Pearl, was delayed for a week on Tuesday when judges could not take up the case due to the absence of a prosecutor whose mother died recently, a defense lawyer said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s top court postpones appeal in Daniel Pearl case

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Members of Women Democratic Front chant slogans during a rally to condemn the incident of rape on a deserted highway, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. Pakistani police said they detained 15 people for questioning after two armed men allegedly gang raped a woman in front of her children after her car broke down on a deserted highway near the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan arrests suspect accused of raping woman on highway

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

Pakistan says Indian cross-border fire kills girl in Kashmir

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Building collapses in Pakistani city of Karachi, killing 1

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Local officials visit the gold and copper mine site, in Reko Diq district in southwestern Pakistan's Baluchistan province March 18, 2017. Pakistan is seeking the reversal of a $5.8 billion penalty imposed by an international tribunal for denying a mining lease to an Australian company, saying that paying the fine will hinder its ability to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. The Reko Diq district is famed for its mineral wealth, including gold and copper. (AP Photo/Naseem James)

Pakistan seeking relief from $5.8B fine over mining lease

By MUNIR AHMED and ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press