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FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018, file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to members of the media at the Capitol in Washington. The Trump administration has placed Pakistan on its list of worst offenders for nations that infringe on religious freedom. Pompeo says he added Pakistan to its list of “countries of particular concern” regarding protection for people to worship according to their beliefs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Pakistan rejects US rebuke on religious freedoms

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in New York. President Rouhani is warning Western countries that they will face a massive influx of drugs if Iran becomes weakened by U.S. sanctions. Rouhani spoke in Tehran on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, at a six-nation conference on fighting terrorism attended by parliament speakers of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, China and Russia. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Rouhani warns weakened Iran less able to fight trafficking

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 14, 2015 file photo, a Pakistani police officer stands guard outside a sealed office of international aid group Save the Children, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan is kicking out 18 international charities after rejecting their final appeal to stay in the country, a move that an aid group spokesman said Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 would affect millions of desperately poor Pakistanis and lead to tens of millions of aid dollars lost. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan kicks out 18 charities after rejecting final appeal

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani farmers block a main road during a sit-in-protest in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Hundreds of farmers rallied in eastern city Lahore to demand a decrease in the prices of fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, and to pressure authorities so they could get higher prices for sugarcane and other produce. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan opposition rally clashes with police, dozens hurt

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Report urges cash-strapped Pakistan to pursue clean energy

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 13, 2009, file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. special envoy tasked with finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's 17-year old war has arrived in Islamabad, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 for talks with the country's political and military leadership. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Pakistani PM says Afghan peace is in his country’s interest

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FILE - In this April 17, 2017, file photo, Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ghafoor told a briefing of foreign journalists Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, that Pakistan's influence over the Taliban is overstated, yet he said Pakistan has repeatedly told the insurgent group to join the peace process. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

US envoy for Afghan peace in Pakistan for talks on Taliban

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, July 21, 2018 file photo, Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, arrives to address an election campaign rally in Islamabad, Pakistan. A Pakistani government spokesman says on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 President Donald Trump has reached out to Prime Minister Khan, sending him a letter seeking Islamabad's cooperation in bringing the Taliban to negotiating table to end the 17-year war in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan says Trump seeks help on Taliban talks

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Police: Gunmen kill local journalist in northwest Pakistan

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A Pakistani money changer counts US dollar bills in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Pakistan's currency has plunged further as the country is mired in a financial crisis and seeking an $8 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund. The Pakistani rupee was trading at 142 to the dollar on Friday, a decline from 133.90 rupees to $1 at close of business the previous day. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan’s currency plunges again as country seeks IMF loan

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses during a ceremony in Kartarpur, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Khan attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the first visa-free border crossing with India, a corridor that will allow Sikh pilgrims to easily visit their shrines on each side of the border. The crossing, known as the Kartarpur corridor is a rare sign of cooperation between the two nuclear-armed rival countries.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani PM inaugurates pilgrim border crossing with India

By ASIM TANVEER - Associated Press

A girl walks past a wall of the Chabad House, with bullet marks on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Nov 25, 2018. On Nov. 26, 2008, India's financial capital Mumbai was turned into a war zone by a group of Pakistani gunmen who launched coordinated attacks in the heart of the city. They targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a tourist restaurant and a crowded train station. Three days of carnage killed 166 people, including foreign tourists, and wounded hundreds more. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India marks 10 years since Mumbai attacks; US offers reward

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Pakistani doctors say man on death row is mentally ill

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Islamic State claims market bombing in Pakistan

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2018 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The assault on the consulate in Karachi, Friday, Nov. 13, 2018, was the latest in a series of attacks on China’s growing influence in Pakistan, where Beijing is financing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of megaprojects that critics fear will plunder the country’s resources and leave it with crippling debt. (Thomas Peter/Pool Photo via AP)

AP Explains: China’s megaprojects fuel unease in Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Security officials gather outside the compound of the Chinese Consulate following an attack, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, in Karachi, Pakistan,. Gunmen have stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, triggering an intense shootout during which two police officers and all three assailants were killed. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Pakistan’s death toll from market bombing now 35

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Pakistani security personnel arrive at the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. Police say gunmen have stormed the Chinese Consulate in the country's southern port city of Karachi, triggering an intense shootout during which two police officers were killed. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Separatists attack Chinese Consulate in Pakistan, killing 4

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Iran says 5 abducted guards, freed in Pakistan, return home

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Pakistan to open new border entry for Indian Sikh pilgrims

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Saiful Malook, lawyer of Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, is photographed prior to a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Bibi has been freed recently from jail after eight years on death row for blasphemy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Acquitted Christian woman wants to leave Pakistan for West

By CHRISTOPH NOELTING - Associated Press