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FILE - In this July 15, 2018, file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan government has fired its election commission, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. The move by Ghani’s administration comes more than three months after chaotic parliamentary elections -- the results of which have still not been announced -- and ahead of July’s controversial presidential vote. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban announce surprise talks with US in Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A Pakistani vendor waits for customers to sell balloons ahead of the Valentine's Day in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Celebrating Valentine's Day is considered "un-Islamic" by some in Pakistan, but many still exchange gifts with others. One university has rebranded it as "Sister's Day" and gained notoriety for doing so. (Associated Press)

At Pakistani university, rebranded Valentine’s Day leaves some heartsore

By Naila Inayat Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

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. The Christian woman freed by Pakistan's Supreme Court which acquitted her on blasphemy charge was transferred to southern Karachi by Pakistan's security agencies, but has told a friend, who spoke to her on telephone, that she is being held in a room unable to leave and unable to find out when she can leave Pakistan. (AP Photo, File)

Woman acquitted of blasphemy still can’t leave Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistan personal stand guard during the opening ceremony of Pakistan Navy's Multinational Exercise AMAN-19, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. A five-day multinational exercise hosted by Pakistan Navy has begun near the southern port city of Karachi in an effort aimed at enhancing cooperation in keeping the seas safe from pirates, terrorists and smugglers. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

45 nations attend 5-day naval exercise in Pakistan

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Pakistani PM orders probe into attack on Hindu temple

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Pakistan orders probe into death of activist during clashes

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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, file photo released by the Afghan Presidential Palace, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, speaks to U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, third left, at the presidential palace in Kabul. Khalilzad is in a hurry to find a peace deal for Afghanistan that would allow America to bring home its troops after 17 years of war. The main talks are between Khalilzad and the Taliban’s political leadership, which is based in the Gulf nation of Qatar. (Afghan Presidential Palace via AP, File)

Q&A: US envoy’s road to Afghan peace littered with obstacles

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistan arrests British man who fled 19-year sentence

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Saiful Malook, center, lawyer of Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi who is facing blasphemy charges, arrives at the Supreme Court, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Bibi acquitted of blasphemy faces a final legal hurdle in the court that could guarantee her freedom, allowing her to join her daughters. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

The Latest: Pakistani radicals slam blasphemy case acquittal

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In this Oct. 13, 2016, file photo, Saiful Malook, left, then lawyer of Aasia Bibi, briefs media with Bibi's husband Ashiq Masih outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman facing the final ruling on her fate is back in the country, vowing to fight the last legal hurdle with his client who faces death threats from Islamist radicals despite her acquittal in a blasphemy case. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Top Pakistani court upholds acquittal, frees Christian woman

By Kathy Gannon and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistan says normalcy returns to former Taliban stronghold

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistan to ease restrictions on visas to promote tourism

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Pakistan’s oppressed eye U.S. intervention

By Wasay Jalil

Karachi, once the ‘Bride of the East,’ endures vicious campaign of terror

By Nadeem Nusrat

Official: Gas explosion kills 3 miners in southwest Pakistan

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Pakistan kicks off year’s first polio campaign in 2019

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FILE- In this Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border in McAllen, Texas. With the standoff over paying for his long-promised border wall dragging on, the president’s Oval Office address and visit to the Texas border over the past week failed to break the logjam and left aides and allies fearful that the president has misjudged Democratic resolve and is running out of negotiating options. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Terrorism suspect caught at U.S.-Mexico border roils immigration debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Relatives and local residents shout slogans to protest the alleged killing of a family by counter-terrorism officers in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Authorities in Pakistan have arrested counter-terrorism police officers after they killed a middle-aged couple, their 13-year-old daughter and another man in what the police initially claimed was a shootout with insurgents. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan arrests officers after shooting that left 4 dead

By ASIM TANVEER and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 on the last leg of a regional tour aimed at finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's 17-year war, which would allow American troops to go home, ending the U.S.'s longest military engagement. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

US envoy for Afghan peace in Pakistan after talks in Kabul

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 on the last leg of a regional tour aimed at finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's 17-year war, which would allow American troops to go home, ending the U.S.'s longest military engagement. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

US peace envoy in Pakistan seeking end to 17-year Afghan war

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press