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Ohio ex-deputy treasurer arrested in Pakistan

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Senators drop demand for drone death tallies

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 25, 2014 photo, supporters of a Pakistani religious group rally to support the Pakistan army and its Inter-Services Intelligence wing, ISI, in Lahore, Pakistan. A controversy has started as Pakistan's powerful military faces off with the country’s largest private television station over allegations that its forces were behind a shooting that seriously wounded Hamid Mir, one of its top anchors. But behind the chanting demonstrations and garish loyalty posters lies the deep challenge confronting Pakistan: Where does power lie in this country that’s undergone three military coups since independence, with its army or its nascent civilian government? (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

In Pakistan, signs praise spies as nation changes

By ZARAR KHAN and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi speaks during an election rally in Hyderabad, India on Tuesday. The multiphase voting across the country runs until May 12, with results expected on May 16. (Associated Press)

PHILLIPS: Geopolitical conundrum: Will the Obama regime continue to support our enemies?

By Judson Phillips - The Washington Times

Pakistani journalists protest for their colleague Hamid Mir, who was shot and injured by gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, Monday, April 21, 2014 in Karachi, Pakistan. Police in Pakistan said gunmen shot the famous television talk show host amid a wave of attacks on journalists in the country. Police say Hamid Mir, a host on the private television broadcaster Geo, was wounded in the attack Saturday, April 19, 2014, near Karachi's airport. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan’s army wants TV news channel shut down

By ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

Pakistan says it’s test-fired short-range missile

Associated Press

This undated file photo shows al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. (AP Photo, File)

‘Library of Osama bin Laden, the Martyr’: Pakistan names seminary for girls after dead terrorist

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Afghan Election Soldiers Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: Lingering too long in Afghanistan

By Brahma Chellaney

Pakistani peace activists rally to highlight the importance of tolerance in a peaceful society and demand concrete measures to deal the ongoing extremism and terrorism, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan: Taliban factions clash, killing dozens

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signs legislation, Monday, March 24, 2014 at the Indiana Career Council Meeting at the Indiana State Library. Indiana is the first state to withdraw from the Common Core reading and math standards that were adopted by most states around the country. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Rob Goebel)

Indiana assured that Pakistani firm working to thwart bomb makers

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pence renews talks over Posey Co. fertilizer plant

By TOM LoBIANCO - Associated Press

FILE-In this file picture taken Nov. 2, 2013 photo Afghan scrap collectors transport a load of U.S. destroyed equipment from the departing U.S. military inKandahar, southern Afghanistan. As the United States military packs up to leave Afghanistan, ending 13 years of war, it is looking to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including its sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles, but finding a buyer is complicated in a region where relations between neighboring countries are mired in suspicion and outright hostility. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, file)

US seeking buyers for old military equipment

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Supporters of the former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf chant slogans outside the special court in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 31, 2014. A special Pakistani court Monday indicted former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on five counts of high treason, marking a sharp blow to the country’s powerful military. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani court indicts Musharraf in treason case

By Rebecca Santana and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

** FILE ** Pakistani police officers scuffle with lawyers who try to enter the diplomatic enclave during a demonstration, near the area that houses the U.S. Embassy and other foreign missions, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

U.S. embassies in Pakistan lack resources to carry out emergency plan in case of attack

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during his final address to parliament during its opening session at the parliament house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Karzai said the last 12 years of war were &quot;imposed&quot; on Afghans, a reference to the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Karzai: Afghanistan doesn’t need U.S. troops

By Kathy Gannon and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights speaks during a press conference about his annual report to the Human Rights Council on the use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.. The expert will also refer to his reports on his 2013 missions to Burkina Faso and Chile. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)

UN: Drone use down in Pakistan, up in Afghanistan

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Three among the dozens of Kashmiri students expelled from their university from left, Gulzar Ahmed, Muteebul Majid, and Aijaz Bhat, speak to journalists in Srinagar, India, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Dozens of Kashmiri students were expelled from their university and threatened with sedition charges because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a televised match against India, police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

66 students expelled for cheering Pakistan cricket

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, center, flanked by his bodyguards, talks to reporters at an undisclosed location in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan along Afghanistan border. The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process. Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the top leadership of the militant group has instructed all of its units to comply with the cease-fire. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

Pakistani Taliban announces 1-month cease-fire

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Guilty plea in $10 million Ohio fraud case

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press