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In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, a paramedic speaks to a man at a labor camp in the Al Quoz neighborhood of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states have long been a lifeline for their families back home but they now find themselves trapped by the coronavirus pandemic. They are losing jobs, running out of money and desperate to return home as COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, stalks their labor camps. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Virus traps, sickens foreign laborers in Gulf Arab states

By JON GAMBRELL and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2020, file photo, Pakistani children take part in rally against child abuse, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Associated Press collected dozens of police reports from police stations across Pakistan that allege sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic clerics teaching in madrassas or religious schools in Pakistan, where many of the country’s poorest study. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Child sex abuse in Pakistan’s religious schools is endemic

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

India, Pakistan troops trade heavy fire in Kashmir; 3 killed

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FILE - In this July 8, 2006 file photo, women prisoners celebrate the news of their release on bail, at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Kanizan Bibi, charged with murdering her employer's wife and five children, remains a prisoner on death row for the last 29 years. She’s one of more than 600 mentally ill prisoners in Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed,file)

29 years on death row, Pakistan woman suffers mental illness

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistan’s army says it shot down Indian drone in Kashmir

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FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, municipality workers bury the body of coronavirus victim on the outskirts of Herat province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Across the Middle East and parts of South Asia, bereaved families have faced traumatic restrictions on burying their dead amid the pandemic. Religion and customs that require speedy burials in the largely Muslim region have clashed with fears of COVID-19 contagion and government-mandated lockdowns. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi, File)

Mideastern burial traditions clash with fears of contagion

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2007, file photo, Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla. A Pakistani court on Thursday, April 2, 2020, overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

EDITORIAL: Daniel Pearl’s killers nearly released until Pakistani government stepped in

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this April 15, 2007, file photo, Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla. A Pakistani court on Thursday, April 2, 2020, overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl

By Adil Jawad and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistan government spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan consults with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 16, 2020. Khan said Monday he fears the new coronavirus will devastate developing nations' economies, and warned richer economies to prepare to write off the debts of the world's poorer countries. In an interview with The Associated Press he also called for an end to sanctions on Iran saying they were crippling the poor nation's ability to even contain the spread of the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan PM warns new virus may devastate developing nations

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistan anti-graft body arrests newspaper, TV mogul Rehman

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

In this Oct. 17, 2020, photo, Pakistani civil society activists hold candle vigil to pay tribute to Aziz Memon in Hyderabad, Pakistan. In Pakistan, being a dissident or even raising a critical voice is dangerous business. Rights groups say that despite the election in 2018 of a civilian government, the army still rules from behind with an iron fist. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

In Pakistan, criticism grows dangerous as dissent stifled

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Ambulances and fire brigade arrive near the site of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Pakistan's air force says one of its fighter jets has crashed in a wooded area near the capital while practicing aerobatic maneuvers. Wednesday's crash was in preparation for National Day celebrations later this month. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani fighter pilot dies during aerobatic practice

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Mud houses collapse in heavy rains killing 17 in NW Pakistan

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Building collapses in Pakistani port city, killing 11 people

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Questions raised about of China anti-locust ‘duck army’

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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, listens to officials at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Asia Bibi will receive Tuesday her diploma as a Citizen of Honor of the city of Paris, a title she was awarded in 2015. She is to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, the Elysee said. (AP Photo, File)

Pakistani woman accused of blasphemy seeks asylum in France

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child at a school in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Pakistan government launched an anti-polio vaccination campaign in an effort to eradicate the crippling disease affected children. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Bomb kills Pakistani policeman assigned to anti-polio team

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Toxic gas leak kills 5, sickens dozens in Karachi port city

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In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, photo, Afghan refugee Hukam Khan narrates the situation of his country, at Kabobayan refugee camp, in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan refugees tell U.N.: ‘We need peace, land to go home’

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Eaton County Sheriff's Department and released on April 17, 2109 shows Robert Carabello. Eaton County prosecutors say 35-year-old Caraballo was killed in Charlotte, where he lived, and his remains were found in a metal foot locker that had been set on fire and left in a wooded area of Ottawa County. Police in Rome say an American woman wanted in the 2002 death of her husband has been arrested in a Rome hotel. Rome police arrested Beverly McCallum after she checked in sat the hotel. Italian hotels are required to register guests in an online system linked to a police database. A police spokeswoman said that database flagged an international arrest warrant for McCallum's arrest. U.S. authorities had been seeking to extradite McCallum from Pakistan, where she was believed to be living, to stand trial in the slaying of her husband, Robert Caraballo. (Eaton County Sheriff's Department via AP)

US woman wanted for husband’s 2002 death arrested in Rome

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press