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Zaheerul Hassan Shah, the deputy chief of a radical Islamist party, speaks to his supporters during a gathering in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, July 28, 2024. Pakistan's police on Monday, July 29, arrested Shah on the charge of ordering the killing of the chief justice over his alleged support to the minority Ahmadi community, officials said. AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan arrests top leader of radical party on charge of ordering the killing of the chief justice

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Local residents gather at a barricaded road leading to a military facility site, in Bannu, a city in northwestern Pakistan, Monday, July 15, 2024. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle and at least one of his accomplices exploded his vest near the outer wall of a military facility in northwestern Pakistani city Bannu early Monday, wounding several civilians and damaging nearby homes, a local police official said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hasib)

Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat to protest a suicide attack that killed 8 soldiers in the northwest

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Local residents gather at a barricaded road leading to a military facility site, in Bannu, a city in northwestern Pakistan, Monday, July 15, 2024. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle and at least one of his accomplices exploded his vest near the outer wall of a military facility in northwestern Pakistani city Bannu early Monday, wounding several civilians and damaging nearby homes, a local police official said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hasib)

Pakistani troops kill 10 militants responsible for attack on military base that left 8 soldiers dead

By Ishtiaq Mahsud - Associated Press

FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan gives a press conference at his home, in Lahore, Pakistan, on May 18, 2023. A Pakistani court on Saturday July 13, 2024 overturned the convictions and seven-year sentences of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, but officials quickly moved to prevent his release from prison. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Government says it will ban ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, deepening turmoil

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Prime Minister Office, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, left, shakes hand with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif after their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. The head of the U.N. refugee agency met with Sharif in the capital, Islamabad to discuss problems faced by the Afghan refugees, who have been living in the country in a state of uncertainty since last year when Islamabad started expelling foreigners, officials said. (Prime Minister Office via AP)

U.N. chief meets Pakistan’s premier to discuss the situation of Afghan refugees following clampdown

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Members from Pakistan's minority community and civil society chant slogans during a demonstration against the conviction of a Christian man on charges of blasphemy and condemn the country's blasphemy laws, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. A court had awarded a death sentence to Ehsan Shan after finding him guilty of sharing "hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern Punjab province last year. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Dozens rally in Pakistan after a Christian man is sentenced to death for blasphemy

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A patient of heatstroke receives treatment at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Various parts of the country continued to experience an intense heat wave conditions, with the temperatures reaching 47 degree Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit) in Nawabshah and other cities, according to the press release of Pakistan Meteorological Department. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Doctors treat thousands of heatstroke victims in southern Pakistan as temperatures soar

By Muhammad Farooq - Associated Press

FILE- Nizamuddin, manager of Adventure Tours Pakistan, displays a picture of Japanese climber Atsushi Taguchi, who went missing while he and another climber were scaling the Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak, on his laptop at his office in Skardu, Pakistan, June 16, 2024. Rescuers have called off a search for the Japanese mountaineer who went missing last week while trying to scale one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/M.H. Balti, File)

Pakistani rescuers call off search for a Japanese climber, days after his colleague’s body was found

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Pakistan's Haris Rauf looks on during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup cricket match between Pakistan and Canada at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in Westbury, New York, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Pakistan bowler Haris Rauf defends his actions after video of altercation with group of men

Nizamuddin, manager of Adventure Tours Pakistan, displays a picture of Japanese climber Ryuseki Hiraoka, who had died while he and another climber were scaling the Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak, on his laptop at his office in Skardu, Pakistan, Sunday, June 16, 2024. Hiraoka has died while trying to scale one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan and a search is still underway to find his missing colleague, officials said. (AP Photo/M.H. Balti)

A Japanese climber dies while trying to scale a mountain in northern Pakistan and another is missing

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A passenger loads his sheep into train at Lahore Railway Station for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, June. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani Taliban announce a 3-day cease-fire with security forces on Eid al-Adha holiday

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A student eats ice lolly as she leaves with others after school, as authorities announced reduced school hours due to soaring temperature, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Weather forecasters warn Pakistanis to stay indoors ahead of new heat wave

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Hindu devotees get off from a bus and walk toward a mud volcano, to start Hindu pilgrims religious rituals for an annual festival in an ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata in Hinglaj in Lasbela district in the Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Friday, April 26, 2024. More than 100,000 Hindus are expected to climb mud volcanoes and steep rocks in southwestern Pakistan as part of a three-day pilgrimage to one of the faith's holiest sites. (AP Photo/Junaid Ahmed)

A Hindu festival in southwestern Pakistan brings a mountainous region to life

By Adil Jawad and Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gets down from plane upon his arrival in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2024. Raisi arrived in Islamabad on a three-day visit on Monday, during which he will discuss a range of issues with authorities in Pakistan's capital, officials said. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Iran’s president holds talks with Pakistani premier after arrival in Islamabad for a 3-day visit

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Prime Minister Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, walks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a welcome ceremony in the prime minister house in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Prime Minister Office via AP)

The leaders of Iran and Pakistan vow to boost trade in a meeting seeking to mend a diplomatic rift

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, April 19, 2024. Five Japanese nationals traveling in a van narrowly escaped a suicide attack when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Friday, wounding three passers-by, police said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

5 Japanese workers narrowly escape suicide bombing that targeted their vehicle in Pakistan

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

FILE - Farhatullah Babar, a veteran human rights activist and member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, listens to a reporter during a news conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. Babar, an important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens' right to speech and expression. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Key ally of Pakistan’s prime minister demands end to ban on social media platform X

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during Army Day parade at a military base in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Raisi warned that the "tiniest invasion" by Israel would bring a "massive and harsh" response, as the region braces for potential Israeli retaliation after Iran's attack over the weekend. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Pakistan says Iran’s President Raisi will visit next week despite tensions in the Middle East

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Hospital staff and volunteers unload a casket from an ambulance upon arrival at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, April 13, 2024. Pakistani police are searching for gunmen who killed eight people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country's southwest, a police official said Saturday. Earlier, the same attackers killed two people and wounded six in another car they forced to stop. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani police search for gunmen who abducted bus passengers and killed 11 in the southwest

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