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Pakistan summons Indian diplomat over Kashmir killings

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Pakistan, India trade fire in disputed Kashmir: 7 people die

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Former US resident at Guantanamo seeks to cut prison term

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, a Pakistani mother holds pictures of her son and mourns his death in attack on an Army Public School in 2014 in Peshawar that left over 150 people dead, mostly children, during a protest in Charsadda, Pakistan. In response to this school attack, the Pakistan government resumed military trials and re-introduced the death penalty for terror suspects under a mandate that has been in place for over four-years, but that mandate expires Monday April 1, 2019, according to Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry. (AP Photo/Zia Mohammad, FILE)

Pakistan scraps trials before military courts after 4 years

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

Pakistani civil society activists call for protection of Hindu girls at a protest in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. A court in Islamabad has ordered protection for two teenage sisters from the minority Hindu community as investigators widen a probe to determine whether the girls were abducted and forced to convert and marry two Muslims. The Islamabad High Court issued the order on Tuesday. Placard at right reads, &quot;Justice for the families of Reena, Raveena and Soniya.&quot; (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Pakistan places 2 Hindu girls in protection after conversion

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Indian police blame Kashmir rebels for death of boy hostage

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A tribute for mosque shooting victim Hossein Moustafa hangs on a wall at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, March 21, 2019. Thousands of people were expected to come together for an emotional Friday prayer service led by the imam of one of the two New Zealand mosques where 50 worshippers were killed in a white supremacist attack on Friday March 15. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Stories of the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack

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Pakistani lawmakers claim women’s march was anti-Islam

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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2007, file photo, Indian security personnel walk past the charred coaches of Samjauta Express train, or Friendship Express, which caught fire after a blast at Dewana, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of New Delhi, India. An Indian court has on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, acquitted four Hindu hardliners charged with triggering explosions in the train heading for India’s border with Pakistan 12 years ago, killing 68 people, mostly Pakistani nationals. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, File)

Indian court acquits 4 Hindus in blast on train to Pakistan

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Illustration on the nuclear balace of India and Pakistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir continues to simmer but neither country wants nuclear war

By Jed Babbin

In this image from video released by the CIA on Nov. 1, 2017, Hamza bin Laden is shown at his wedding. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, Hamza bin Laden finds himself clearly in the crosshairs of world powers. The U.S. has put up to a $1 million bounty for him. The U.N. Security Council has named him to a global sanctions list, sparking a new Interpol notice for his arrest. His home country of Saudi Arabia has revoked his citizenship. (CIA via AP, File)

Hamza bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s son, in crosshairs as al Qaeda re-emerges

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Mourners paying their respects at a makeshift memorial at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Saturday, March 16, 2019. New Zealand's stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on Saturday, in a fierce determination to show kindness to a community in pain as a 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left dozens of people dead. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Stories of the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Indians offer sweets to each other as they celebrate reports of Indian aircrafts bombing Pakistan territory in Mumbai, India. A standoff with nuclear rival Pakistan appears to have given Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the head of India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, a boost ahead of national elections set to begin in April. Making the most of the confrontation with Pakistan and his party’s efforts to project him as a strong leader, Modi has been crisscrossing India addressing rallies and claiming that his government’s response to the suicide bombing shows that a “New India” is emerging. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Pakistan standoff helps India’s Modi shift focus from jobs

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, Indian Sikh pilgrims visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, the shrine of their spiritual leader Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan. Officials from India and Pakistan met Thursday, March 14, amid easing tensions to discuss opening a visa-free border crossing to allow pilgrims to easily visit the Sikh shrine just inside Pakistan.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

India, Pakistan officials meet to discuss border opening

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019 file photo, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar gives a press statement in New Delhi, India. India on Saturday demanded that Pakistan take concrete steps against terrorists operating from its territory, while at the same time returning its top diplomat to Islamabad amid an easing of tensions between the nuclear rivals. Kumar said Saturday, March 9, that a reported Pakistani crackdown this week on seminaries, mosques and hospitals belonging to outlawed groups and arrest of dozens of people was not enough. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India returns key diplomat to Pakistan as tensions ease

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In this March 3, 2019 photo, Hafiz Muzamil, speaks to The Associated Press in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Pakistan has taken over the headquarters of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a militant group that claimed to have carried out a suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed more than 40 Indian soldiers in February 2019, and brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Muzamil railed against India’s violent suppression of a 30-year insurgency in Kashmir -- India’s only Muslim dominated state -- and championed Jaish-e-Mohammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Popular support for militants complicates Pakistan crackdown

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said Thursday that U.S. officials are well aware of recent counterterrorism arrests and other steps being taken by Pakistan, but suggested the administration remains wary of Islamabad's commitment against such groups as JeM. (Associated Press)

India says it told Pakistan of Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camp before airstrikes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Pakistani police officer stands guard outside a mosque belonging to a banned religious group in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Pakistan on Wednesday continued a crackdown on seminaries, mosques and hospitals belonging to outlawed groups, saying the actions were part of the government efforts aimed at fighting terrorism, extremism and militancy. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

India, Pakistan again target army posts, villages in Kashmir

By MUNIR AHMED and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, the snow-capped mountain of Nanga Parbat is seen in northern Pakistan. A Pakistani mountaineering official says military helicopters could not drop off four Spanish rescuers to search for a missing pair of European climbers because of heavy snowing. (AP Photo/Musaf Zaman Kazmi, File)

Pakistan: Search for 2 missing European climbers called off

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistani protesters beat an effigy of Indian prime minister during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, March 4, 2019. A key train service with neighboring India resumed and schools in Pakistani Kashmir opened Monday in another sign of easing tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals since a major escalation last week over the disputed Kashmir region. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

The Latest: Pakistan arrests key suspects in Kashmir attack

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