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Pakistan Navy soldiers patrol in Gwadar port, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) west of Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 11, 2016. Gwadar Port is a deep-sea port developed jointly by the Pakistan and China at a cost of USD $248 million. In 2013, Gwadar Port operations were officially handed over to China. Gwadar is the key to the trade portion of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a $46 billion program in which Beijing will also build power plants in Pakistan to plug an energy shortage. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Iraq turns to China ‘Belt and Road,’ boosting Beijing clout in Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

CORRECTS NATIONALITY OF CLIMBER TO CANADIAN -- In this photo released by Inter Services Public Relations of Pakistan's military, rescued mountaineers Donald Allen Bowie from Canada and Lotta Henriikka Nakyva from Finland, sit in a helicopter after being rescued by the Pakistan Army from Broad Peak, Baltoro Glacier in Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. (Inter Services Public Relations via AP)

Pakistan rescues Canadian, Finnish climbers by helicopter

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US Army flight medic SPC. Daniel Miller, right, stands guard as United States Marines place a colleague wounded in an IED strike into a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a "hot" landing zone in Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

With ‘no military solution’ in sight, U.S. forced to talk peace with Taliban despite ongoing attacks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Supporters of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star attend a protest against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Demonstrators across the country have been demanding the revocation of the citizenship law. The law provides a fast-track to naturalization for persecuted religious minorities from some neighboring Islamic countries, but excludes Muslims. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Modi says Indian Muslims had nothing to fear in new law

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, Afghan security personnel gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

Asad Khan, Pakistan envoy, says U.S., Taliban forced to negotiate

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Cinema-goers buy tickets to watch a film at a local cinema in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. Pakistan's government has postponed its decision on whether to lift a ban on a movie that had offended hard-line Islamists in this Muslim-majority country, after asking a high council of clerics to weigh in on the film. The Islamists had raised allegations of blasphemy over the film, &quot;Zindagi Tamasha,” or “Circus of Life,&quot; by Pakistani director Sarmad Khosat, which was to be released in late January. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan delays decision on movie that offended Islamists

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Afghan militant shell kills 7 from same family in Pakistan

By RIZ KHAN - Associated Press

In this Sept. 29, 2013, file photo, a Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)

Terror attacks drop, but Pakistan ‘not out of the woods’

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid debri of a building in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Pakistani officials said Tuesday that a gas cylinder explosion at a small perfume-making factory killed many people and injured others. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry)

Pakistan gas cylinder explosion kills 11 in perfume factory

Associated Press

A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, Thursday, April 11, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Slutman, of Newark, Del., was among three American service members killed by a roadside bomb on Monday, April 8, near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Iran expands Taliban support, targets U.S. troops in Afghanistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

India asks China to avoid raising Kashmir dispute at U.N.

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

An ambulance heading to an area hit by avalanches, waits for a blocked road to be opened, in Keran, a small town in Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Severe winter weather has claimed more lives as avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall killed more than 50 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir while a dozen died in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)

Pakistan: 21 more bodies recovered in avalanche-hit Kashmir

By ROSHAN MUGHAL - Associated Press

Men charged with smuggling to help Pakistan nuke program

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China hopes UN meeting spurs India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Indian state challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Officials: Series of avalanches kill 12 in Himalayan Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, photo, people walk on a road during heavy snow fall in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province. Much of the damage was caused in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province where Imran Zarkon, the head of provincial disaster management authority said 14 people were killed in the past 24 hours because of roofs amid winter's unusual snowfall, which also blocked highways and disrupted normal life. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Severe weather in Afghanistan, Pakistan leaves 54 dead

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

Decorated Indian officer arrested for Kashmir rebel ties

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of bomb explosion in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer with some civilians and wounded other worshipers, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan mosque blast kills senior police officer, 13 others

By ABDUL SATAR - Associated Press

Pakistani writer says his novel on ex-dictator confiscated

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press