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Pakistan child measles deaths surge in 2012

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Afghan negotiator welcomes release of Taliban prisoners

By Amir Shah and Denis D. Gray - Associated Press

Pakistani tribesmen pray during the funeral of a paramilitary soldier who was kidnapped and executed by Taliban militants in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)

Pakistan releases 8 Afghan Taliban prisoners

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers collect evidence from the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. A suicide bomber driving a pickup truck packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in the country's southwest, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani official: 19 killed in attack on Shiites

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

A Pakistan army soldier takes position during a gun-battle with Taliban militants in Pawaka village on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Pakistani security forces cornered the last members of a group of Taliban militants who staged a deadly raid on an airport in the country’s troubled northwest, and all five died in the ensuing Sunday firefight, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

21 missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

**FILE** Pakistani students carve wooden statues in the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

** FILE ** Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, confided to friends in 2008 that he was not ready to take up his mother's political reins. (Associated Press)

Son of late Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto launches political career

By Munir Ahmed and Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

**FILE** Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks Aug. 22, 1998, during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. (Associated Press)

Pakistan-Haqqani ties threaten to thwart U.S.

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A Pakistani polio worker administers the oral polio vaccine to an infant in a Christian colony in the slums of Islamabad on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani polio workers get police protection

By Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

Chinese subsidiary exec of U.S. firm sentenced for illegal export to Pakistan

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

A Pakistani polio worker administers the oral polio vaccine to an infant in a Christian colony in the slums of Islamabad on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan: 8 working on polio vaccinations slain in 48 hours

By Jamal Khan - Associated Press

Rescue workers at a hospital morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, carry the body of a female polio worker killed by unknown gunmen on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Gunmen kill 5 female polio workers in Pakistan

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter stands in front of a MRAP all-terrain vehicle (M-ATV) at the Pentagon in 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

U.S. reimburses Pakistan $688 million for troop support

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Residents examine a crater caused by Saturday night's car bombing by Taliban militants close to the international airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Car bomb kills 17 people in Pakistan market

By Jamal Khan - Associated Press

Crashes raise concern about Pakistani air force

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT - Associated Press

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Report: Taliban plan to move in as U.S. withdraws

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The drone-strike killing in June of Al Qaeda’s erstwhile second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, is said to be affecting al Qaeda’s numbers and morale, causing some jihadis to leave Pakistan. (Associated Press)

Pakistan: U.S. drone kills senior al Qaeda leader

By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Rasool Dawar - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, in recognition of World AIDS Day. She released “The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,” an ambitious blueprint to create an AIDS-free generation. (Associated Press)

Turkey’s defense, Pakistan top Clinton’s agenda

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Pakistani hospital staff treat a person injured in a suicide attack on Shiite mourners in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/C.A. Hussain)

Taliban suicide bomber kills 23 in Pakistan

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

A man feeds pigeons outside the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the targets of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. India executed the lone surviving Pakistani gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai early Wednesday, providing Indians much-needed closure over the three-day rampage that shook the nation's core and deepened enmity with neighbor Pakistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

India hangs gunman from 2008 Mumbai attack

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press