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Family members of officials trapped inside the agriculture institute wait outside, during a crackdown operation against militants, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Pakistani police say gunmen have stormed a government complex in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing an unconfirmed number of people. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Gunmen attack agriculture institute in Pakistan, killing 12

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

People condemn an attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. Pakistani police say gunmen have opened fire at the main gate of a Shiite mosque in the capital Islamabad killing a worshipper and wounding three others. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Roadside bomb kills 5 anti-Taliban fighters in Pakistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD - Associated Press

Supporters of religious groups rally to express solidarity with protesters block main highway in capital, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Pakistani police have launched an operation to clear an intersection linking capital Islamabad with the garrison city of Rawalpindi where an Islamist group's supporters have camped out for the last 20 days. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan TV: Army summoned to disperse Islamist sit-ins

By ANJUM NAVEED and ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

Hafiz Saeed, head of the Pakistani religious party, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, gives Friday sermon at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. Pakistani authorities acting on a court order released a U.S.-wanted militant Friday who allegedly founded a banned group linked to the 2008 Mumbai, India, attack that killed 168 people, his spokesman and officials said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Trump administration slams Pakistan’s release of Hafiz Saeed

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Hafiz Saeed, head of the Pakistani religious party, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, gives Friday sermon at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. Pakistani authorities acting on a court order released a U.S.-wanted militant Friday who allegedly founded a banned group linked to the 2008 Mumbai, India, attack that killed 168 people, his spokesman and officials said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan releases Hafiz Saeed, U.S.-wanted militant suspect, on court order

By Babar Dogar and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Kausar Parveen comforts her child, who said he was raped by a mullah or religious cleric, in Kehror Pakka, Pakistan. Sexual abuse is a pervasive and long-standing problem at Pakistan's network of Islamic schools known as madrassas, an Associated Press investigation has found. (Associated Press)

Pakistan’s madrassas rife with child sex abuse

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, photo, Aasia Bibi and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, are presented to journalists, at police station in Muzaffargarh in Pakistan. Pakistani police said Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, that they arrested a woman for allegedly plotting with Bibi, her newly married niece, to poison the 21-year-old woman's husband with tainted milk that would eventually kill him and 17 other relatives in a remote village. (AP Photo/Iram Asim)

Pakistani woman, charged with murder, previously warned against forced marriage

By Iram Asim - Associated Press

Illustration on Pakistan and Secretary Tillerson by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Rex Tillerson’s Sisyphean mission

By Jed Babbin

Pakistan army claims shooting down Indian drone in Kashmir

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, center, is greeted before boarding his plane for Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Tillerson in Pakistan with a tough message on safe havens

By MATTHEW LEE and ALEX BRANDON - Associated Press

Traveling on both sides of the glass at GRU airport in Sao Paulo. Brazil, and the Sao Paolo airport in particular, are attractive transit points for smugglers because immigration checks are "very lax," Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Michael Stempinski testified in court earlier this year. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Sharafat Ali Khan sentenced in ‘terrorism’ illegal immigrant smuggling plot

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Suspected US missiles kill 20 militants in NW Pakistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD - Associated Press

A Pakistani channel broadcasts a report about western couple, seen at a local electronic shop in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years of being held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

A look at the family rescued from Taliban-linked captors

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this June 4, 2014, file photo, mother's Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold photo of their married children, Canadian citizen Joshua Boyle and American citizen Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012, in Stewartstown, Pa. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

Caitlan Coleman, U.S. woman held captive by Taliban-linked group, now released

By Jill Colvin, Lolita C. Baldor and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2014, file photo, mother's Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold photo of their married children, Canadian citizen Joshua Boyle and American citizen Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012, in Stewartstown, Pa. Pakistan's military says soldiers have recovered five Western hostages held by the Taliban for years. Pakistan's army did not name those held, only saying it worked with U.S. intelligence officials to track down the hostages and free them after discovering they had been brought into Pakistan. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

Kidnapped, held 5 years, US-Canadian family free in Pakistan

By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

In this June 4, 2014, file photo, from left, Patrick Boyle, Linda Boyle, Lyn Coleman and Jim Coleman hold photo of their kidnapped children, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012, Wednesday, June 4, 2014, in Stewartstown, Pa. Pakistan's military says soldiers have recovered five Western hostages held by the Taliban for years. Pakistan's army did not name those held, only saying it worked with U.S. intelligence officials to track down the hostages and free them after discovering they had been brought into Pakistan. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

A look at the family rescued from Taliban-linked captors

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this June 4, 2014, file photo, from left, Patrick Boyle, Linda Boyle, Lyn Coleman and Jim Coleman hold photo of their kidnapped children, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012, Wednesday, June 4, 2014, in Stewartstown, Pa. Pakistan's military says soldiers have recovered five Western hostages held by the Taliban for years. Pakistan's army did not name those held, only saying it worked with U.S. intelligence officials to track down the hostages and free them after discovering they had been brought into Pakistan. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

The Latest: Trudeau thanks allies for hostage rescue

Associated Press

FIFA suspends Pakistan from international soccer

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Pakistani court sets date for bail plea of US terror suspect

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 14, 2017, Dr. Russell Salic is escorted in handcuffs for a preliminary investigation at the Department of Justice in Manila, Philippines. Dr. Salic, a Filipino doctor accused by U.S. authorities of plotting attacks in New York City denies that he helped finance the disrupted plot and will fight a U.S. extradition request, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo)

Lawyer: Filipino doctor to fight US extradition, terror case

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press