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In this Aug. 12, 2017 photo, a worker cleans a door in one of the 14 galleries of the Partition Museum that is set to open later this week in Amritsar, India, 32 kilometres (20 miles) from border with Pakistan. India's first partition museum tells the stories of those who survived the chaos and bloodshed 7 decades ago. (AP Photo/Rishabh R. Jain)

India opens 1st Partition museum 70 years after bloody event

By RISHABH R. JAIN - Associated Press

American mountaineer Vanessa O'Brien talks about her experience in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. The prominent mountaineer, who became the first U.S. woman to summit the world's second highest mountain in Pakistan's north, says it was a &quot;proud moment&quot; for her when she hoisted American and Pakistani flags at the 28,251 feet high K-2 mountain to promote people-to-people contacts between the two countries. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

First US woman to summit K-2 in Pakistan says she’s ‘proud’

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

This late 1970's photo from the Naqvi &amp; Zaidi family album shows Fahmida Hasan Zaidi, second right, with her mother Alamdari Begum, left, daughter Kahkashan Naqvi, front, younger sister Khurshid Zaidi, nephew Shiraz Zaidi, right, and young AP reporter Muneeza Naqvi in Lucknow, India. Zaidi lives in New Delhi while the rest of her seven siblings live in cities across Pakistan. For them, a generation raised on the idea that relationships could be nurtured for long periods on the simple sustenance of letters, physical distance has brought pain, but not an emotional distance. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Family bonds survive India-Pakistan split, but for how long?

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Pfau, ‘Mother Teresa of Pakistan,’ dies at age 87

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In this undated photo provided by Adelphi University, student Usman Anwar works at his campus job on Long Island, N.Y. Anwar said he skipped a trip home to Pakistan this summer because he worried he might not be allowed to re-enter the U.S. if he left. Like Anwar, some international students have remained in the U.S. because they worried about potential travel troubles, even if they aren't from majority Muslim countries in the government's travel ban rules. (Noelle Fiallo-Evans/Adelphi University via AP)

US colleges help foreign students wary of traveling home

By KANTELE FRANKO - Associated Press

Pakistani workers install a huge billboard of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the planned route of his rally at a highway in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. According to Malik Mohammad Ahmed, a spokesman in Punjab where Lahore is the provincial capital, Sharif planned to travel with a convoy of supporters by road on Wednesday from the capital, Islamabad, to Lahore. (AP Photo/ Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s ousted Sharif vows to remain active in politics

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Supporters of Pakistani deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rally in favor of their leader in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. The Supreme Court disqualified thrice-elected Sharif for concealing assets. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistani president swears in members of new Cabinet

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

A female supporter of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf claps while she with others attend a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, July 30, 2017. Thousands of supporters of opposition party Tehreek-e-Insaf rallied in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to celebrate the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan: Ahead of PM vote, Islamabad crowds root for Khan

By ZARAR KHAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, July 24, 2017 file photo, Men look at the remains of their properties at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the last week the Taliban have overrun two districts in the north and west of Kabul, temporarily cut a key highway linking the capital to the north and staged a suicide bombing in the heart of the capital Kabul. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Q&A: A look at why the Taliban seem to be unstoppable

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2017, file photo, House Budget Committee member Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. Fellow committee member Rep. Susan DelBene, D-Wash. is at left. Wasserman Schultz fired IT staffer Irman Awan on July 25, 2017, following his arrest on a federal bank fraud charge. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz fires Imran Awan, IT staffer, following fraud arrest

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In this May 24, 2017, file photo, House Budget Committee member Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. Fellow committee member Rep. Susan DelBene, D-Wash. is at left. Wasserman Schultz fired IT staffer Irman Awan on July 25, 2017, following his arrest on a federal bank fraud charge. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Wasserman Schultz fires IT staffer following fraud arrest

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House Budget Committee member Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. Fellow committee member Rep. Susan DelBene, D-Wash. is at left. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Pakistani IT guy arrested at airport

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Staff Sgt. Ricardo Branch was punished for emailing his superiors about a possible leak.

Army to kick out sergeant who tried to keep secret info Barack Obama had revealed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

US: Iran still top state terror sponsor; global attacks down

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Pakistan bans tourists from Kashmir area after troops drown

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This Friday, July 7, 2017 photo, shows a Facebook site that features one of India’s most wanted, Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned organization and a U.S. declared terrorist group, in Islamabad, Pakistan. A senior Pakistani government official says more than 40 of 65 organizations banned in Pakistan operate flourishing social media sites, communicating on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram to recruit, raise money and demand a rigid Islamic system. Meanwhile Pakistan is waging a cyber war against activists and journalists who use social media to criticize the government and its agencies. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Many organizations banned in Pakistan thrive online

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani Snakes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Pakistan shows long history of duplicity

By Ted Poe

Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs, right, speaks next to Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho, during a press conference in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, July 9, 2017. Ronaldinho and Giggs were among the soccer stars that arrived in Pakistan to play exhibition matches which organizers hope will boost the sport in the country. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Giggs impressed with Pakistan youngsters’ love for soccer

By AP Sports Writer - Associated Press

Pakistan army escort vehicles carrying Ronaldinho, Ryan Giggs and other soccer stars upon their arrival for an exhibition soccer match in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, July 8, 2017. Ronaldinho and Ryan Giggs were among soccer stars to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday to play exhibition matches which organizers hope will boost the sport in the country. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Ronaldinho, Giggs in Pakistan for soccer exhibition matches

By RIZWAN ALI - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Friday, July 7, 2017, Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, left, meets Vice President of Facebook Joel Kaplan in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan???s interior ministry says that Kaplan has met with a Khan to apprise him about steps taken by popular networking site to remove content which authorities in this Islamic nation claim is against Islam. (Press Information Department via AP)

Facebook manager meets with minister over Pakistan appeal

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