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Newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the National Assembly in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday.

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Pakistani lawmakers elect Imran Khan as prime minister

by Munir Ahmed Associated PressAugust 17, 2018

Pakistani lawmakers on Friday elected former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country’s next prime minister, in a step toward the country’s third civilian transfer of power.In the vote at the National Assembly, Khan secured 176…

A Pakistani student teaches her class fellows at the school of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in her hometown of Swat Valley in Pakistan, Friday, March 30, 2018. A Pakistani women's activist says Malala Yousafzai, who is back in Pakistan for the first time since the Taliban shot her in 2012, is hoping to visit her Swat Valley hometown but that the trip depends on security clearances from the government. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

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Security high in Pakistan’s Swat but Malala visit uncertain

by Sherin Zada Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressMarch 30, 2018

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai (left) and her parents pose for a photograph with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (second from left), Prime Minister of Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday.

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Returning to Pakistan, Malala is overwhelmed by her emotions

by Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Kathy Gannon Associated PressMarch 29, 2018

Indian policemen rescue villagers civilians following shelling from the Pakistan side of the border, in Ranbir Singh Pura district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, on Friday.

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Tensions soar along Indian, Pakistan frontier in Kashmir

by Aijaz Hussain Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressJanuary 19, 2018

Members of the media make images of a posted note on the front door of Jim and Lyn Coleman's home in Stewartstown, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. The Coleman's daughter Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years held captive by a group that has ties to the Taliban and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Captive for 5 years, U.S.-Canadian family freed in Pakistan

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 13, 2017

In this Thursday, June 15, 2017, photo, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speaks to reporters outside the premises of the Joint Investigation Team, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's Supreme Court in a unanimous decision has asked the country's anti-corruption body to file corruption charges against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his two sons and daughter for concealing their assets. (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

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Islamic State suicide bombing at Pakistan shrine kills 75

by Adil Jawad Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressFebruary 17, 2017

People gather outside the emergency ward, where authorities brought the bodies of plane crash victims, at a hospital, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. Pakistan's national carrier says one of its planes has crashed shortly after takeoff from the northern city of Chitral with 48 people aboard. A spokesman for Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday that the cause of the crash was unclear and there was believed to be little chance of finding survivors. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Pakistani plane crashes after takeoff with 48 people aboard

by Asif Shahzad Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressDecember 7, 2016

A Pakistani police officer fires tear gas shell to disperse crowds protesting against the government in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Friday.

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Pakistani police, opposition supporters clash in Islamabad

by Munir Ahmed Associated PressOctober 28, 2016

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 cadets ran, jumped from windows to flee militants

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