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Supporters of the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Movement for Justice, chant slogans during a demonstration in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistani protesters march on U.S. Consulate; 1 dead

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Pakistani women mourn Sept. 13, 2012, the deaths of relatives killed in a fire at a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Police have opened a murder case against the factory's owners and managers for the fire, which killed hundreds of people. (Associated Press)

Pakistan factory owners in deadly blaze get bail

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

People gather at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Death toll in Pakistani factory fires at 283

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

A Pakistani fireman tries to extinguish a factory fire on Sept. 11, 2012 in Lahore, Pakistan. The fire began when sparks from a generator hit chemicals used to make shoes, a Pakistani police officer said. (Associated Press)

Double factory blazes in Pakistan kill 39

By Adil Jawad and Zaheer Babar - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Car bomb kills 12 Shiites in northwest Pakistan

By Hussain Afzal - 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)

U.S. declares Haqqani network a terrorist body

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Foreign child relief staff ousted from Pakistan

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

** 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)

Uighurs, Uzbeks supplant Arabs as jihadis in Pakistan’s lawless areas

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim Prison, Libya's most notorious prison during Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Rights group: Evidence of wider U.S. waterboarding

By Lee Keath and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

A Pakistani volunteer shows a number plate of the U.S. embassy vehicle hit by a blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a U.S. government vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing two Pakistanis and wounding 19 others, including two Americans, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Bombing in Peshawar shakes steely U.S. security

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather at the site of the suicide bombing of a U.S. government vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Suicide car bombing wounds 2 Americans in Pakistan

By Riaz Khan and Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

Pakistani Muslim girls talk about press gathered outside a mosque, unseen, where police arrested a Muslim cleric Khalid Chishti, in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. In the latest twist in a religiously charged case that has focused attention on the country's harsh blasphemy laws, Pakistani police arrested Chishti who they say planted evidence in the case of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Muslim cleric accused of planting evidence

By Rebecca Santana and Zarar Khan - Associated Press

A Pakistani soldier arranges weapons reportedly recovered from hideouts of militants in tribal areas as the weapons are displayed in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan confirms death of key Haqqani militant

By Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

Embassy Row: Divorce counseling

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Hundreds of Christian families who fled their neighborhood where a girl was arrested on blasphemy charges sit in a public park for protection in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday. They feared retribution from Muslim neighbors if they stayed in their homes. (Associated Press)

Fearful Pakistani Christians make home in forest

By Zarar Khan and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (Associated Press/Dutton)

Navy SEAL’s book lifts veil on raid, killing of bin Laden

By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, the lawyer of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, leaves after a court hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012. Chaudhry said a report by a medical board investigating the age and mental state of the girl determined she was between 13 and 14. The girl was accused by a neighbor of burning pages from the Koran. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Christian in Pakistan blasphemy case ruled a minor

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

** File ** Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf waves upon his arrival for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Islamabad on, Aug. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

Pakistani court gives PM more time to obey order

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan

By Anwarullah Khan - Associated Press

Jalaluddin Haqqani

Afghans: Sources confirm Badruddin Haqqani is dead

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press