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Supporters of a Pakistani religious group burn tires while block a main road during a protest after a court decision, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Pakistan's top court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row since 2010 for insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In Wednesday's verdict, the court ordered authorities to free Asia Bibi. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistan court acquits Christian on death row for blasphemy

by Zarar Khan Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressNovember 1, 2018

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Imran Khan claims Pakistan election victory

by Kathy Gannon Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressJuly 27, 2018

Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, center, poses for a photograph with her family members at her native home during a visit to Mingora, the main town of Pakistan Swat Valley, Saturday, March 31, 2018. Yousafzai arrived in her hometown for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education.

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Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown

by Sherin Zada Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressMarch 31, 2018

At left, a Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Pakistan China Silk Road in Haripur, Pakistan. At right, work is in progress at a new international trade route near Havalian in Pakistan. From Pakistan to Tanzania to Hungary, projects under Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature "Belt and Road Initiative" are being canceled, renegotiated or delayed due to disputes about costs or complaints host countries get too little out of projects built by Chinese companies and financed by loans from Beijing that must be repaid.

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China’s modern Silk Road hits political, financial hurdles

by Joe McDonald Associated Press, Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Sylivester Domasa Associated PressJanuary 12, 2018

In this Wednesday photo, Hafiz Saeed, head of the Pakistani religious party, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, waves outside a court in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Pakistan releases US-wanted militant suspect on court order

by Babar Dogar Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressNovember 24, 2017

This still image made from a 2013 video released by the Coleman family shows Caitlan Coleman and her husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, in a militant video given to the family. AP Photo

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Family held captive by Taliban-linked group released

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 12, 2017

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 file photo, Pakistani Defense Minister Khwaja Muhammed Asif leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. With Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified by the country's top court and out of his job, questions are swirling over who will succeed him as head of government.(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Pakistan’s prime minister resigns after high court ruling

by Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Zarar Khan Associated PressJuly 28, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center left, and Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, fourth right, pray near Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong, center after inaugurating a new international trade route during a ceremony at the Gwadar port which links to China's western region, west of Karachi, Pakistan. China's new Silk Road initiative is ramping up as President Donald Trump focuses on domestic issues, downplaying foreign affairs. (AP Photo/Muhammad Yousuf, File)

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‘Silk Road’ plan stirs unease over China’s strategic goals

by Joe McDonald Associated Press, Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Gillian Wong Associated PressMay 11, 2017

Pakistani hospital staff make arrangements outside an emergency ward for the victims of suicide bombing at a famous shrine in interior Sind province, in Karachi, Pakistan. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of people and wounding others, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Suicide bombing at Pakistan shrine kills 75

by Adil Jawad Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressFebruary 16, 2017

In this photo provided by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, right, talks to a survivor of an overnight attack on the Police Training Academy, with Pakistan army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, left, at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing dozens of people, mostly police cadets and recruits, and waging a ferocious gun battle with troops that lasted into early hours Tuesday. (AP Photo/Press Information Department)

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Pakistani police cadets ran, jumped from windows to flee attackers

by Abdul Sattar Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 25, 2016