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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves a court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 8, 2018. Officials say Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has sought protection from arrest from a court days before his planned return to the country. Sharif is expected to return home on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 from the United Arab Emirates, where he's been living in self-imposed exile. He is currently a fugitive from justice. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan’s ex-leader Nawaz Sharif seeks protection from arrest ahead of return from voluntary exile

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistan's captain Babar Azam leaves the ground after losing his wicket during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Pakistan complains about ‘inappropriate conduct’ by fans at Cricket World Cup match against India

By Rizwan Ali - Associated Press

India's captain Rohit Sharma leaves the ground after wining the toss during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India wins the toss and will bowl first against regional rival Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup

By Chetan Narula - Associated Press

India's captain Rohit Sharma celebrates his century during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between Afghanistan and India in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

As crowded as it gets at the Cricket World Cup: India vs. Pakistan before 100,000-plus spectators

By Chetan Narula - Associated Press

Afghan families wait to board into a bus to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.N. warns Pakistan that forcibly deporting Afghans could lead to severe human rights violations

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan families wait to board into a bus to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan says its planned deportation of 1.7 million Afghan migrants will be ‘phased and orderly’

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistan's captain Babar Azam and Netherlands' captain Scott Edwards wait for the coin toss before the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup match between Netherlands and Pakistan in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Pacers help Pakistan beat the Netherlands at the Cricket World Cup

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England's Joe Root bats during the ICC Cricket World Cup warm up match between Bangladesh and England in Guwahati, India, Monday, Oct.2, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Cricket World Cup picks up where it left off, with England against New Zealand

By Chetan Narula - Associated Press

An Afghan refugee family returns to Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing, Torkham, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Pakistan's caretaker Interior Minister on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, asked all illegal immigrants, including Afghans, to go back to their countries voluntarily before October 30 to avoid mass arrest and forced deportation, sending a wave of panic, especially among 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the Islamic nation without valid documents. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Pakistan announces big crackdown on migrants in the country illegally, including 1.7 million Afghans

By Munir Ahmed and Riaz Khan - Associated Press

A police officer stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighborhood of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44 million children amid tight security

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In this photo provided by District Police Office, injured victims of bomb explosion are treated at a hospital, in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A powerful bomb exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing multiple people and wounding dozens of others, police and a government official said. (District Police Office via AP)

Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar holds an interview during his visit for the United Nations General Assembly, Friday Sept. 22, 2023, in New York. Kakar said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Pakistan’s prime minister says manipulation of coming elections by military is ‘absolutely absurd’

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Lawyers chant slogans during a rally against the recent increase in electricity and fuel prices and demanding the announcement of parliamentary election, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Pakistan's election oversight body announced on Thursday that it will hold the next parliamentary elections in the last week of January, delaying the vote which was to be held in November under the constitution. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections at the end of January, delaying a vote due in November

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

FILE - Stranded trucks loaded with supplies for Afghanistan, park in a terminal along side on a highway after Afghan Taliban rulers closed a key border crossing point Torkham, in Landi Kotal, an area in Pakistan's district Khyber along the Afghan border, on Feb. 21, 2023. A key northwestern border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan reopened Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, after a nine-day closure due to clashes between border forces, officials from both sides said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf, File)

Key trade crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopens after 9 days

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FILE - Stranded trucks loaded with supplies for Afghanistan, park in a terminal along side on a highway after Afghan Taliban rulers closed a key border crossing point Torkham, in Landi Kotal, an area in Pakistan's district Khyber along the Afghan border, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Pakistani authorities closed the key border crossing with landlocked Afghanistan on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, shortly after border guards from the two sides exchanged fire, officials and residents said, in a sign of increasing tensions between the two neighbors. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf, File)

Pakistan shuts key crossing into Afghanistan after border guards exchange fire

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan's President Office, President Arif Alvi, right, administrates oath from Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar as caretaker Prime Minister during a ceremony, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Kakar was sworn in as the country's prime minister to head a caretaker national government that will oversee parliamentary elections amid one of the worst economic crises the Islamic nation has faced, officials said. (Pakistan President Office vis AP)

Pakistani premier claims U.S. military equipment left behind in Afghanistan is now in militant hands

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Rescue workers evacuate villagers through a boat from a flooded area of Pakpattan district of Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

UNICEF says a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need support

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Police officers stand guard outside the Islamabad High Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. A court in Pakistan's capital is likely to issue a crucial ruling Thursday on an appeal from the country's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan against his recent conviction and three-year sentence in a graft case, one of his lawyers said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

A top court in Pakistan will rule on a conviction appeal from ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, a cable car carrying six children and two adults dangles hundreds of meters above the ground in the remote Battagram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. The cable car malfunctioned, trapping the occupants for hours before rescuers arrived in helicopters to try to free them. (AP Photo)

Pakistani rescuers try to free 6 children and 2 men from a cable car hundreds of feet in the air

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani christians Prayer for Jaranwala christians after the recent attack on a Christian area by an angry Muslim mob, In Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan hands out cash to Christians who lost homes in rioting over alleged desecration of Quran

By Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press