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Relatives load the body of a victim, who was killed in a gunmen firing incident, into a vehicle at a hospital, in Parachinar, main town of Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussain Ali)

Pakistani city mourns 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed in a gun attack

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

An injured victim, right, of gunmen firing incident on a passenger vehicle, is treated at a hospital in Parachinar, in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dilawar Hussain)

At least 38 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

A Muslim cleric and transgender persons attend a prayer ceremony for their colleagues, who were killed by two men armed with daggers at their home, in Mardan, a city in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Arif Khan)

2 transgender women stabbed to death at home in northwest Pakistan

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Two Russian climbers, center, who were evacuated from the base camp of one of the highest mountains to the northern city, a week after they were stranded on a remote peak following being hit by a formation of ice, are helped by volunteer, upon their arrival in Skardu, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/M.H. Balti)

Russian climbers reach hospital after rescue in Pakistani Himalayas

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

People visit at the site of Monday's suicide bombing after authorities finished the rescue operation, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. A suicide bombing that struck inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan reflects "security lapses," current and former officials said as the death toll from the devastating blast climbed to 100 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Security officials and rescue workers search bodies at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Zubair Khan)

Pakistan blames ‘security lapse’ for mosque blast; 100 dead

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Security officials and rescue workers search bodies at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Zubair Khan)

Suicide bomber kills 47, wounds over 150 at Pakistan mosque

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Army soldiers and police officers clear the way for ambulances rushing toward a bomb explosion site, at the main entry gate of police offices, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A powerful bomb went off Monday near a mosque and police offices in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least a few people and wounding some 70 worshippers, police and government officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Suicide bomber kills 59, wounds over 150 at Pakistan mosque

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Rescue workers and police officers examine the site of bomb explosion in an Islamic seminary in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing some students and wounding dozens others, police and a hospital spokesman said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 8 students, wounds 136

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Supporters of a religious group chant slogan during a rally favoring the Khalid Khan, who gunned down Tahir Naseem in courtroom, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, July 31, 2020. Naseem, a U.S. citizen, according to a U.S. State Department statement, was gunned down this week in a Pakistani courtroom while standing trial on a charge of blasphemy. The placard on right is read as 'we can die for honor of Prophet'. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Thousands rally in Pakistan in support of killer of American

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Elizabeth Lal, a Christian woman who was injured and her son-in-law Nadeem Jordon killed by gunmen because he rented in a Muslim neighborhood, shows a picture of Jordon on her mobile during an interview with the Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, July 9, 2020. Analysts and activists say minorities in Pakistan are increasingly vulnerable to Islamic extremists as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Minorities under attack as PM pushes ‘tolerant’ Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Armed Pakistani security personnel carry out an operation against terrorists at a house in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Pakistani authorities say a raid by security forces on a militant hideout in the northwestern city of Peshawar triggered a 15-hour shootout in which a police officer and many suspected militants were killed. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Shootout in northwest Pakistan kills policeman, 5 militants

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Car bomb explosion wounds 3 in northwest Pakistan

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In this Sunday, April 22, 2018 photo, Manzoor Pashteen, a leader of Pashtun Protection Movement addresses his supporters during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan. A Pakistani rights group in the country's troubled border region has been protesting police brutality, censorship and disappearances, drawing a police campaign against its members and deepening tensions. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pashtun rights group accuses Pakistan army of abuses

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers examine the site of an explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, June 23, 2017. A powerful bomb went off near the office of the provincial police chief in southwest Pakistan on Friday, causing casualties, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

35 killed in 3 bomb attacks in 2 Pakistani cities

By Riaz Khan and Abdul Sattar - Associated Press