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Pakistan cricketer turned politician Khan marries 3rd time

Associated Press

Pakistan scrambles to avoid terror financing watch list

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Pakistan’s army chief joins conference in Afghan capital

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Indian paramilitary force soldiers take position at the site of a gunbattle with armed militants in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. Officials say two gunmen have opened fire near a paramilitary camp in the main city of Indian controlled Kashmir killing at least one soldier. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India defense min warns Pakistan after attack on army camp

By DAR YASIN - Associated Press

US drone strikes kill 11militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Donald Trump will have line item restoring Pakistan aid in 2019 budget: Source

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan critical to Trump Afghanistan war plan, top official says

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Wais Ahmad Barmak, interior minister, left, and Masoom Stanekzai Afghanistan's intelligence chief, right, speaks during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. At the news conference Wais Ahmed Barmak said they has given neighboring Pakistan confessions and other proof that the militants who carried out a recent series of attacks were trained in Pakistan and that Taliban leaders there are allowed to roam freely. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president slams Pakistan for harboring Taliban

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

US drone kills 2 militants from Haqqani network in Pakistan

By HUSSAIN AFZAL - Associated Press

United Nations U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley listens during a U.N. Security Council meeting on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Thursday Jan. 18, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry: Pakistan won’t be ‘scapegoat’ for Afghan woes

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Son of Indian civilian Gopal Dass who was killed in Pakistani firing and shelling, wails at Jhiri village in Kanachack district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Monday, Jan.22,2018. Officials say Indian and Pakistani soldiers have again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir after a day's lull, killing at least one civilian. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India, Pakistan continue trading fire and blame in Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2015 file photo, Pakistani villagers and family members mourn during the funeral of Pakistani lawyer Samiullah Khan Afridi, who was killed months after he announced that he will no longer be representing Dr. Shakil Afridi, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Shakil Afridi, who reportedly used a vaccination scam to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, has been languishing in jail since the al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in 2011 -- his case a metaphor for downward spiraling relations between his country and the U.S. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)

Doctor who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistan’s ace in poker match with US: Afghan air routes

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Relatives of Indian boy Sahil kumar who was killed in Pakistani firing and shelling, wail near his body at a hospital in Ranbir Singh Pura district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Friday, Jan.19,2018. Tensions soared along the volatile frontier between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir as soldiers of the rivals continued shelling villages and border posts for third day Friday. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Tensions soar along Indian, Pakistan frontier in Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Puneet Ahluwalia

New Dawn on South Asia Policy

By Puneet Ahluwalia

Nadeem Nusrat

Equal Representation is Road to Peace in Pakistan

By Nadeem Nusrat

A group of U.S.-based American Mohajirs launched the #FreeKarachi Campaign on Jan. 15, 2018, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in Washington, D.C.

#FreeKarachi is Vital for Peace in South Asia

By #FreeKarachi

A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Pakistani authorities launched an anti-polio campaign in Punjab province as polio remains endemic in Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Gunmen kill 2 polio workers in Pakistan, mother and daughter

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Mohammad Mashal was attacked and killed by fellow Abdul Wali Khan University students who accused him of sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and the mere suspicion of blasphemy is enough to ignite deadly mob violence in the Muslim-majority country. (Associated Press/File)

Pakistan’s Islam blasphemy laws hurt U.S. relations

By Naila Inayat - Special to The Washington Times

In this Jan. 4, 2018 photo, Pakistanis activists of civil society protest against U.S. President Donald Trump in Lahore, Pakistan. A senior Pakistani senator has expressed disappointment at the U.S. decision to suspend military aid to Islamabad, saying it will be detrimental to Pakistani-U.S. relations. Nuzhat Sadiq, the chairwoman of the Senate Foreign Affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, says Islamabad can manage without the United States as it did in the 1990s, but would prefer to move the troubled relationship forward.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) **FILE**

Pakistan’s ‘double game’ manipulation of U.S. will — and should — end soon

By Jeff M. Smith