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Pakistani officials: Roadside bomb hits army, kills 3 troops

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Local residents carry salvaged belongings as they wade through a flooded area during a heavy monsoon rain in Yar Mohammad village near Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Pakistan's military said it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Death toll from flooding in northwest Pakistan rises to 48

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Local residents carry salvaged belongings as they wade through a flooded area during a heavy monsoon rain in Yar Mohammad village near Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Pakistan's military said it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Flash floods triggered by rain kill 15 people in NW Pakistan

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Fatima Mukhi-Siwji, people gather with flags in a parking lot for a drive-in commemoration of the seventh-century death of Imam Hussein, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Hicksville, N.Y. Shiite Muslims are marking the mourning period in the shadow of the coronavirus. (Fatima Mukhi-Siwji via AP)(Fatima Mukhi-Siwji via AP)

Shiite Muslims mark holy day of mourning in virus’ shadow

By MARIAM FAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Local residents float through flooded area caused by heavy monsoon rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Heavy rains hit Pakistan's financial capital Karachi for a fifth straight night, bringing more flooding and killing some more people, officials said, as rescuers evacuated people from flooded neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Normalcy returning to Pakistan’s monsoon-drenched Karachi

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A boy uses half of a fiber tank to navigate a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Heavy monsoon rains have lashed many parts of Pakistan as well the southern port city of Karachi, leaving flooding streets, damaging homes and displacing scores of people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Monsoon rains wreak havoc across Pakistan, killing 36 people

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

A member of a social media rights group displays pictures of actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed's music video meant to depict a young bride’s joy that as shot in a mosque and went viral on the internet, at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The video infuriated religious radicals who inundated social media with claims that Qamar’s dancing sullied the historic Wazir Khan Mosque. The uproar was the latest example of how trolling has exploded online in Pakistan since a lockdown, imposed in March over coronavirus concerns, confined tens of millions to their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) **FILE**

Trolls flood social media in Pakistan amid virus lockdown

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb 4, 2000 file photo, Pakistan-based militant leader Masood Azhar, speaks at the Karachi press club, in Pakistan. India's anti-terrorism agency named the Pakistan-based militant leader as the prime mastermind in a 2019 car bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian soldiers and brought two nuclear-armed rival nations to the brink of war, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

India indicts Pakistani militant in 2019 Kashmir bombing

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Women carry a cot and a bucket as they wade through a flooded road during a heavy monsoon rainfall, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Three days of monsoon rains have killed dozens of people and damaged hundreds of homes across Pakistan, the country's national disaster management agency said Tuesday, as another spell of heavy rain lashed the port city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Army helicopters to pluck people from flooded Karachi city

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

People wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfalls in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Three days of monsoon rains have caused the deaths of dozens people and damaged hundreds homes across Pakistan, the country's national disaster management agency said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

3 days of rains in Pakistan kill 90, disrupt life in Karachi

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

Anderson gets to 600 wickets; England clinches series win

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FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The top Taliban negotiator says the group's chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations. The Taliban official spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban negotiators visit Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Feb. 29, 2020, file, photo, Afghanistan's Taliban delegation arrives for the agreement signing between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar. Taliban officials said Friday, July 17, 2020, that the son of the movement’s feared founder has been put in charge of its military wing and added powerful figures to its negotiating team ahead of expected talks aimed at ending Afghanistan’s decades of war, The moves mark one of the most significant shake-ups in years. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

Pakistan issues orders enforcing UN sanctions on Taliban

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A laborer carries sack of onion while wades through a flooded area after heavy rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Emergency workers say relentless monsoon rains kill some people and injure many in Pakistan's most populous Punjab province. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Monsoon rains lash Pakistan, killing 24 and injuring 20

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FILE - In this July 31, 2020 file photo, supporters of a religious group chant slogan during a rally favoring the Faisal Khan, who gunned down Tahir Naseem in courtroom, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Khan, the man who shot and killed a U. S. citizen charged with blasphemy, said a lawyer aided him by sneaking in the weapon he used to kill Tahir Ahmed Nasim, police official said on Thursday, Aug. 20. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistani who killed American in court says he was given gun

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Rescue workers and volunteers gather to search bodies following a boat capsized in Kenjhar Lake, some 122 kilometers (75 miles) east of Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. A small boat carrying members from a Pakistani family capsized in Keenjhar Lake in southern Sindh province on Monday, leaving some people dead and few missing, police said. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Boat capsizes on lake in Pakistan, 10 dead

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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo, the Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flag of the United Arab Emirates as the UAE and Israel announced they would be establishing full diplomatic ties, in Tel Aviv, Israel. On Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, telephone service between the UAE and Israel began as the two countries opened diplomatic ties. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Telephone calls between UAE, Israel ring for the first time

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Pakistan hopes new laws will lead to removal from watch list

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan: There’s reason to be ‘optimistic’ about Afghan peace prospects

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A woman carries sack of wheat and household goods while she wades through a flooded area of Dadu, a district in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. Three days of heavy monsoon rains triggering flash floods killed at least dozens people in various parts of Pakistan, as troops with boats rushed to a flood-affected district in the country's southern Sindh province Sunday to evacuate people to safer places. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

3 days of heavy monsoon rains kill 58 people across Pakistan

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press