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In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 photo, Pakistani women listen to a lecture organized by the breast cancer awareness group PinkRibbon in Islamabad, Pakistan. One in nine women in Pakistan will face breast cancer during their life, with the country itself having the highest rate of the disease across Asia, according to the breast cancer awareness group PinkRibbon, oncologists and other aid groups. Yet discussing it remains taboo in a conservative, Islamic culture where the word breast is associated with sexuality instead of health and many view it as immoral for women to go to the hospital for screenings or discuss it even within their family. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Challenge rises to Pakistan’s breast cancer taboos

By ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

FILE - in this Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 file photo, a Pakistani medic gives a polio vaccine to a child in Peshawar, Pakistan. The World Health Organization said the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has become the largest poliovirus reservoir in the world. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

WHO: Pakistan city is world’s largest polio pool

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

**FILE** A Pakistani volunteer looks at the wreckages of passenger buses that plunged into 50 meters ravine after colliding with each other in Salgaran near Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. At least 12 passengers were killed and many sustained injuries, police said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

19 Pakistani schoolchildren killed in horrific bus crash

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

An Indian medical volunteer administers polio immunization drops to a child at a railway station in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. India on Monday marked three years since its last polio case was reported, a major milestone in eradicating the crippling disease. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India marks 3 years since last polio case reported

By NIRMALA GEORGE - Associated Press

Afghan police officers watch the site of a Taliban attack last year against NATO supply trucks near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After more than 13 years of American bloodshed and treasure, the U.S. military will leave national security in the hands of Afghans. (Associated Press)

Chaos in Iraq could be omen for Afghanistan without U.S. troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pakistan’s Musharraf no show in court; bomb found

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, a Shiite fighter clashes with members of the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel in the town of Hatita, in the countryside of Damascus, Syria. A leading Shiite Muslim cleric widely followed by Iraqi militants has issued the first public religious edict permitting Shiites to fight in Syria&#8217;s civil war alongside President Bashar Assad&#8217;s forces. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo, File)

LAMBRO: More trouble on an old bubble

By Donald Lambro

This image made from video released anonymously to reporters in Pakistan, including the Associated Press on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Warren Weinstein, a 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaida more than two years ago, appealing to President Obama to negotiate his release. The video of Weinstein was the first since two videos released in September 2012. Weinstein, the country director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates, a U.S.-based firm that advises a range of Pakistani business and government sectors, was abducted from his house in the eastern city of Lahore in August 2011.(AP Photo via AP video)

American abducted in Pakistan calls for U.S. help

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers stand guard outside the residence of former President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Dec. 24, 2013. A bomb scare Tuesday delayed the first hearing in a high treason case against Musharraf, said police and legal officials. (Associated Press)

Bomb scare delays Musharraf high treason hearing

By Rebecca Santana and Zarar Khan - Associated Press

FILE In this Oct. 1, 1999 file photo a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. A Russian Cabinet member says Moscow has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike. Wednesday's comments by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin carried by Russian news agencies reflected Moscow's concern with prospective U.S. weapons. (AP Photo/Str)

HANSON: The menace of nuclear gangbangers

By Victor Davis Hanson

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (left) and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shake hands during a meeting on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in Islamabad. Mr. Hagel made a brief stop in Pakistan to meet with military officials and the prime minister. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warns Pakistani leaders of U.S. aid losses over drone-strike protests

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, stands in front of MRAP vehicles after speaking with U.S. troops at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Hagel spoke with U.S. troops and thanked them for being deployed for the holidays. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Hagel to meet with Pakistan’s prime minister

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, arrives to pray at a mosque in the party's headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Nov, 11, 2013. The Pakistan army condemned the prominent Islamic political leader Hasan who called the Pakistani Taliban chief killed by a U.S. drone strike a martyr. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Suspected U.S. drone kills 1 in Pakistan; no intention of throttling back attacks

By Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

A Pakistani walks past a supply truck carrying military vehicles for NATO troops in Afghanistan at a terminal in Karachi, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. Supply trucks remained stuck in Pakistan as concern lingered about demonstrators seeking to stop the vehicles in protest of U.S. drone strikes, Pakistani transportation officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistani political party reveals name of purported CIA station chief

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: Obama’s security deal dooms U.S. to endless war

By Brahma Chellaney

Supporters of Tehreek-e-Insaf or Movement for Justice party chant anti-U.S. slogans during a rally in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013. Thousands of people protesting U.S. drone strikes blocked a road in northwest Pakistan used to truck NATO troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan, the latest sign of rising tension caused by the attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

NATO supply line blocked by Pakistani drone protesters

Associated Press