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Pakistan political party ends NATO supply blockade

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, photo, a Pakistani nurse, right, helps a child to walk in a corridor, part of the patient daily treatment, while children, left, who live at St. Joseph’s Hospice, chat in a ward of the hospice, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Mohammed Aqeel spent weeks at home in Pakistan waiting for death after suffering a debilitating spinal cord injury in a car crash before friends suggested he come to St. Joseph’s Hospice on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. Now 13 years later, his life and those of some 40 others who live on its grounds might be changed forever as this hospital of last resort faces closure over its rising debts. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Hospital of last resort in Pakistan faces closure

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Members of the Honor Guard stand at attention near the caskets of victims of Afghan national army soldiers during a funeral ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked the checkpoint on Sunday, officials said, killing 21 soldiers in the deadliest single incident for the Afghan army in at least a year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Slain Afghan soldiers memorialized in Kabul

By RAHIM FAIEZ and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

This Aug. 7, 2013 file photo provided by Shahraiz Bajwa and taken in Washington, D.C. shows Muhammad Shahzaib Bajwa, who has been comatose since being injured in a November crash while spending a semester in an exchange program at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Diplomats have worked out arrangements to let a Pakistani student who's been hospitalized in a coma since a car crash in November stay in the U.S. for continued medical care, his brother, Shahraiz Bajwa, said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Bajwa's family said last week that officials were pressuring them to agree to his return to Pakistan because his visa was about to expire at the end of this month. (AP Photo/Courtesy Shahraiz Bajwa, Maryam Kamal)

Consul brings relief to Pakistani family in Minn.

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

Brother: Pakistani can stay in US for medical care

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Feb. 2, 2014 photo, a Pakistani health worker vaccinates a child against polio, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan's beleaguered battle to eradicate polio is threatening a global, multi-billion dollar campaign to wipe out the disease worldwide. Because of Pakistan, the virus is spreading to countries that were previously polio-free, U.N. officials say. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistani polio strain threatens global campaign

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistanis gather at the site of a deadly bomb blast that hit a train, in Kashmor district, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. A bomb placed by an ethnic separatist group derailed a train in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing several people including children, and wounding tens more police and the militants said. (AP Photo/Fida Hussain)

Bomb derails train in southwest Pakistan, kills 8

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant travels in Iraq's Anbar province. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

The term ‘Al Qaeda’ becomes a tangled web of words

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, file photo, Pakistani tribal villagers hold a rally to condemn the U.S. drone attacks on their villages in border areas along the Afghanistan border, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Amnesty International calls on the U.S. to investigate reported civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and compensate victims in a report providing new details about innocent citizens allegedly killed in the attacks. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Anti-drone activist in Pakistan says he was kidnapped, tortured

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, negotiators from Pakistani Taliban committee, from left, to right Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq and Maulana Abdul Aziz, listen to a reporter during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan-Taliban peace talks: What’s at stake?

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Treatment of Pakistani hard-liners’ foes is chilling

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pakistani police officers gather outside a movie theater following a grenade attack that killed and wounded many people in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. About 80 people were watching a movie called &#8220;Yarana,&#8221; which means friendship in Pashto, said an official. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which come days after Pakistan began a peace process with Taliban militants fighting in the country&#8217;s northwest to end the violence that has killed more than 40,000 people in recent years. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistani porn theater bombing leaves dozens dead, injured

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghan capital sees 1st polio case since 2001

Associated Press

ADDS CREATION DATE, LOCATION AND BYLINE - This Aug. 7, 2013 photo provided by Shahraiz Bajwa and taken in Washington, D.C. shows Muhammad Shahzaib Bajwa, who has been comatose since being injured in a November crash while spending a semester in an exchange program at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. His family is trying to prevent the Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth from sending him back to his home country. A hospital spokeswoman said Bajwa won’t be able to stay in the country legally after his student visa expires Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Courtesy Shahraiz Bajwa, Maryam Kamal)

Family: Keep Pakistani patient in US hospital

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

Suicide attacker kills 4 in NW Pakistan

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

A Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. scales back drones in Pakistan for Taliban talks: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistani National Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz arrive for the start of the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Plenary Session at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Afghanistan instability weighing on Pakistan

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 photo, supporters of Pakistan's former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf rally in Karachi, Pakistan. A prosecutor and defense lawyer say Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf who is facing a high treason case wants to be treated abroad for a heart disease. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf wants heart treatment abroad

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

People look at the wreckage of a passenger bus destroyed in a bomb blast in the Mastong district, near Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. A roadside car bomb hit a bus of Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran, killing several people and wounding many, in restive Baluchistan province, said a top security official. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Gunmen kill 6 police escorting Spanish cyclist

By ABDUL SATTAR and RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

A Pakistani police officer stands guard at checkpoint on a road leading to the site of bomb explosion in Bannu, Pakistan on Sunday Jan. 19, 2014. A regular Sunday morning troop rotation going into the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan was shattered by an explosion that killed tens of people, mostly paramilitary troops. The Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for placing the bomb on one of the trucks hired for the job. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)

Taliban bomb kills 13 near main Pakistani army HQ

By ANJUM NAVEED and ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press