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A resident looks at the wreckage of a Pakistani air force Mushshak aircraft after it crashed in Rashakai, in Pakistan's northwest, May 17. Four pilots were killed in the midair collision between two Pakistan air force light aircrafts on a routine training mission. Eleven residents on the ground were injured by falling debris. (Fayaz Aziz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Fuel tankers, which were used to carry fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, are parked at a compound in Karachi, May 16. Pakistan and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, but the deal fell through. Pakistan refused to reopen the supply lines and President Obama snubbed Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari at the NATO summit in Chicgo, refusing to make time to meet. Pakistan closed down the supply lines for the Afghan war effort following the NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. (Athar Hussain / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Pakistani scientist Mohammad Khalil Chishti waves to the media upon his arrival in Islamabad, May 15, after his release on bail from the Indian Ajmer jail. Chisti, who had been serving a life sentence since 1992 for murder, was granted bail on humanitarian grounds after his case was brought up during Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India. (Md Nadeem / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation -
Pakistanis walk at the site of a car bomb in Quetta, Pakistan, May 14. At least two were killed and several others wounded when a car parked on a main road exploded as vehicles from a paramilitary Frontier Corps convoy passed by. Police and security forces are frequently targeted in the province. (Arshad Butt / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani children who fled their villages with their families due to fighting between security forces and militants in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur enjoy a ride on a merry-go-round at a makeshift entertainment park set up in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, May 11. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Abla Zahir, 6, sits on the ground holding her brother Yaseen, 1, while waiting to receive a ration of rice during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad, May 4. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Medics at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar attend to a man who was injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's northwest Bajaur region, May 4. A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan. (Fayaz Aziz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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A car is attacked in the Lyari district of Karachi during protests against operations by police against criminals, May 1.
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Hospital staff mark a coffin containing body of Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British national working for the International Committee of the Red Cross, at a hospital in Quetta, April 30. Dale, 60, a health program manager in Quetta for almost a year, was abducted by unidentified armed men on his way home from work in an ICRC-marked vehicle on Jan 5. His body was found on the outskirts of Quetta on April 29. (Waheed Khan / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan's secretary of foreign affairs Jalil Abbas Jillani, center, poses with Afghanistan's deputy foreign minister on political affairs, Jawed Ludin, left, and U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman, prior to trilateral meeting in Islamabad, April 27. Afghan, Pakistani and U.S. diplomats opened talks to review the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan. The three reached a consesus to remove from a U.N. sanctions list the names of Taliban leaders who agree to lay down their arms and support the peace process. (B.K. Bangash / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani waves to supporters as he leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad after being convicted of contempt of court for failing to reopen corruption cases against the president, April 26. The court gave him only a symbolic sentence of a few minutes' detention in the courtroom. It was unclear if the token sentence would ease political tension in Pakistan, where the president and prime minister have jousted with the military and judiciary over the past year. (Pakistan Press information Department via EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Members of the media chase the vehicle carrying the family members of Osama Bin Laden as they leave for the airport from a house in Islamabad, April 26. The al-Qaida leader was killed almost a year earlier by American special forces in a military town in northwetern Pakistan. Surviving family members were ordered deported from Pakistan. (Mian Khursheed / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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A monument made up of salt bricks at the world's second-largest salt mine in Khewra, April 24. Khewra Salt Mines are a major tourist attaction in Pakistan, drawing up to 250,000 visitors a year. (Omer Saleem / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani soldiers and rescue workers search through debris in Hussain Abad after a Bhoja Air Boeing 737 plane crashed on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 21. The passenger jet crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm, killing all 127 people on board. (Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Policemen gather near a damaged jail gate after inmates escaped from the prison in the northwest city of Bannu, April 15. Dozens of Islamist militants stormed the Pakistani prison in the dead of night and freed nearly 400 inmates, including one on death row for trying to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf. (Shahid Khan / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Men learn to conduct electric work in a classroom at the Mashal deradicalization center run by the army in Gulibagh in Pakistan's Swat valley April 13. Pakistan's military drove militants out of Swat in 2009.The building used to be the headquarters of the militants but now military officers, trainers, moderate clerics and psychologists run three-month courses designed to erase "radical thoughts" of those accused of aiding the Taliban. (Mian Khursheed / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, about 100 miles northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, April 13. (Mian Khursheed / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Shiite Muslims mourn the death of a family member at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on April 9, 2012. Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a shoe store, killing six Shiites in an apparent sectarian attack, police said. (Arshad Butt / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani troops searching for avalanche victims including 124 soldiers during a rescue operation on the Siachen Glacier mountains on April 8. Rescuers made desperate efforts to find survivors after an avalanche engulfed an army camp high in the mountains of Kashmir, leaving up to 135 people feared dead. The tragedy occurred on the Siachen Glacier, where Pakistani and Indian troops face off on what is known as the world's highest battlefield. (ISPR via AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A Christian girl attends Easter mass at St. John's Church in Peshawar on April 8. (Mohammad Sajjad / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, left, shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prior to their meeting at the latter's residence in New Delhi on April 8. Zardari arrived in India on a private trip that also gave him a chance to meet Indian leaders amid a thaw in relations between the two South Asian rivals. (Prakash Singh / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, leaves following a news conference in Rawalpindi on April 4, two days after the United States slapped a $10 million bounty on his head. Pakistani right-wing, religious and extremist groups called for nationwide protests to denounce the move. (Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Abdul Basheer Khan, a seller of camel milk, feeds his camels with his son Raha, 6, on the outskirts of Islamabad, April 4. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani girls sit on the rubble of their destroyed school on April 3 near the Afghan border, that was allegedly bombed by Taliban militants. Hundreds of educational institutions including dozens of girls schools have reportedly been bombed by the Taliban in recent months and many school constuction plans halted due to threats. (Hanifullah Khan / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, Zakaria al-Sadah, is escorted by his lawyer, Mohammed Amir Khalil, right, in Islamabad, April 2 after a Pakistani court handed down 45-day jail sentences and $110 fines to family members of the former al-Qaeda leader after convicting them of illegally entering and staying in the country. Bin Laden's widows - two Saudis and one Yemeni - and several children were detained by Pakistani officers in May 2011 after bin Laden was killed in a covert U.S. operation in Abbotabad. (EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Men carry the Awami National Party (ANP) flag-draped casket of a man who was killed by unidentified men a day earlier, in Karachi March 29. Three dozen vehicles were torched in Pakistan's port city of Karachi in the three days following the shooting death of a political activist. (Athar Hussain / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Men drag a motorcycle from a gas station after it was attacked by protesters demonstrating over power cuts in Lahore on March 26. Dozens of protesters attacked a petrol station, burnt tires and blocked roads for several hours demanding the government to put an end to power cuts in the country. (Mohsin Raza / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Family members of acid attack victim Fakhra Younnus mourn her death at Karachi airport on March 25. Fakhra, who committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of her flat in Rome, was a victim of an acid attack allegedly carried out 12 years ago by her husband, the son of a feudal politician. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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A Pakistani reporter reads a dummy copy of Hello! magazine during its launch ceremony in Islamabad, March 24. Celebrity and lifestyle magazine Hello! is to launch a Pakistan edition in April 2012 in a bid to tap into the country's appetite for celebrity and entertainment news. (Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A man reads the Koran at the Sunehri (golden) mosque after evening prayers in Peshawar March 24. (Fayaz Aziz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani youngsters react as they watch an Asia Cup cricket match between Pakistan and India on a huge screen in Karachi on March 18. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Swiss couple Olivier David Och and Daniela Widmer wave upon their arrival at the Qasim base in Rawalpindi on March 15. The couple was held captive by the Pakistani Taliban for over eight months. (Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A security guard looks out of the window of the worship place of the Ahmedi sect in the center of Islamabad on March 12. Ahmedis are reviled by mainstream Muslims as heretics believing that a promised Islamic messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, came more than 100 years ago. His arrival is still being awaited by mainstream Muslims. Pakistan's constitution has made it a crime for Ahmedis to call themselves Muslims or to practice their faith as Muslims. Targeted assassinations, mob gatherings led by outlawed Islamic extremist groups and now a spike in forced conversions has Pakistan's religious minorities wondering if they have a place in Pakistan. (Anja Niedringhaus / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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A jockey holds on during traditional bull racing in Mari village on March 11. Dozens of bulls took part in a racing day in front of ten thousand spectators. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A boy injured in a bomb attack at a funeral is comforted by his grandfather after he was brought to the Lady Reading hospital for treatment in Peshawar on March 11. A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 29 in an attack on the funeral on the outskirts of the Peshawar, a police official said. (Khuram Parvez / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani Hindu women celebrate the Holi festival in Karachi on March 7. Holi, the festival of colors, is observed at the end of winter on the last full moon day of the lunar month. (Asif Hassan / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Activists of the Islamic party Jammat-e-Islami (JI) hold up Qurans and placards during an anti-U.S. protest over the recent burning of Qurans by NATO forces in Afghanistan, in Karachi on March 2. (Rizwan Tabassum / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Shiite Muslims offer prayers during a funeral for community members killed in an ambush in the northern town of Gilgit on Feb. 29. Sectarian gunmen disguised in military fatigues hauled 18 Shiite men off buses on Feb. 28 and shot them dead in cold blood in a usually quiet region of northern Pakistan. Authorities blamed the assault on Islamist militant groups, without naming a specific organisation. The attack took place in the northern district of Kohistan, which neighbours the Swat valley, a former Taliban stronghold. (AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Local residents watch as authorities use heavy machinery to demolish the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on Feb. 26, 2012, erasing a concrete reminder of a painful and embarrassing chapter in the country's history. (Anjum Naveed / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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A Pakistani girl lines up with other women and children to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution in Islamabad, Feb. 24. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Jaffan Muslim holds a picture of her daughter Arum, 13, who went missing last August in Islamabad, Feb. 23. The Supreme Court gave the families a measure of hope by bringing a landmark case against the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), the country's most feared spy network and suspected to be behind most of the abductions. The agency, which works closely with the CIA, operates largely outside of the law. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani hospital staff treat a man injured by a bomb blast in Peshawar, Feb 23. A powerful car bomb ripped through an outdoor minibus terminal in northwestern Pakistan, killing and wounding many people , including women and children. (Mohammad Sajjad / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistani Army soldiers with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment gather before a patrol atop the 8000-foot mountain near their outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan's Dir province on the Pakistan-Afghan border on Feb. 20. Kalpani is on the front line in the 10-year war against militant Islamists, a war which allies Pakistan with the U.S. and NATO in an uneasy, distrustful partnership. (Anja Niedringhaus / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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A Pakistani man helps his wife to walk on the snow in Murree near Islamabad, Feb. 20. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Women supporters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement take part in rally titled 'Empowered Women, Strong Pakistan,' Feb. 19, in Karachi. The rally, organized by Pakistan's ruling coalition Muttahida Qaumi Movement, was to boost women's roll in the country's politics and to highlight the increase in violence against women in Pakistan. (Fareed Khan / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan's President Asif Zardari, center, holds hands of his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai during a trilateral summit in Islamabad, Feb. 17. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived the previous day for a summit with Pakistan's leader that was expected to focus on regional security and peace talks in Afghanistan. Ahmadinejad was to also hold meetings with Pakistani leaders focusing on a multibillion-dollar Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, which faces strong opposition from the United States. (T. Mughal / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Security personnel escort two suspected militants, their faces covered, after the Supreme Court ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) to produce them, outside the court in Islamabad on Feb. 13, 2012. The country's powerful spy agency was forced to produce seven suspected militants who have been held by it and another military intelligence agency without charge for four years. (Anjum Naveed / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Cranes pull the carcass of a 40-foot whale shark from the water in Karachi on Feb. 7. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Rescue workers search for victims trapped under rubble on Feb. 7, the day after a gas explosion in a three-story factory in Lahore. 21 people were killed. (Rahat Dar / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Rescue workers and residents retrieve an injured boy from the rubble of a factory which was levelled by a gas explosion in Lahore on Feb. 6, 2012. (Mohsin Raza / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Security officials stand amidst the rubble of a school which was hit by explosives on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan in northwest Pakistan on Feb. 3, 2012. Militants set off explosives at the girls' school, damaging much of the building, security and education department officials said. There were no casualties. (Mustansar Baloch / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Men carry a body from the destroyed house of tribal elder Aastana Gul following an attack in Peshawar on Feb. 3. A car bomb attack targeting an anti-militant tribal elder killed three people and wounded seven others, police said. (A. Majeed / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. left, shakes hands with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasool after a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul on Feb. 1. A leaked NATO report accusing Pakistan of secretly aiding Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan overshadowed a fence-mending visit by Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Kabul. (Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Relatives and residents gather around the casket of solider Ameer Khan, who was killed in clashes between forces and militants in Kurram Agency, during his funeral in the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, in northwest Pakistan on Feb. 1. Ten soldiers and 40 militants were killed in clashes between Pakistani forces and militants in the Jogi area of the northwestern Kurram tribal region near the Afghanistan border. (Mustansar Baloch / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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A Pakistani man comforts a son of an Islamist militant commander killed in a suicide attack on the outskirts of Peshawar on Jan. 30. The attack damaged a house that commander Haji Akhunzada was building and killed three others. According to an AFP tally, bomb attacks killed 1,118 people in 2010 and 818 in 2011, and 68 people so far in 2012. (A. Majeed / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Brides-to-be stand side by side before taking vows during a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Jan. 29. A total of 50 couples from the rural coastal area of Karachi took wedding vows, funded by non-government organizations. (Akhtar Soomro / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Family members and neighbors view the body of 62-year-old heart patient Chaudhry Mohammad Gulab before his burial in Lahore on Jan. 27. The government in Pakistan's Punjab province is scrambling to recall contaminated drugs that have killed over a 100 people in the last month. Gulab's health started to deteriorate after he was prescribed a new medication by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) on Jan. 18, his younger brother Chaudhry Mohammad Bagh said at his funeral. "We returned to PIC on Jan. 25 after Gulab started coughing blood and officials asked us to return his medication and then advised we should admit him to the Mayo hospital. He died two days after being admitted," Bagh said. Government officials have said autopsies would need to be performed before the cause of the recent deaths can be confirmed. (Mani Rana / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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Activist of Islamic party Jamait-e-Ulema-i-Islam gather at the Islam Zindabad Conference in Karachi on Jan. 27. The conference was held to launch a struggle for an Islamic revolution in the country and against foreign involvement. (Asif Hassan / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A man fixes wooden grips on knives at a workshop in Quetta, Jan. 26. (Naseer Ahmed / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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A man attends to the crocodiles near a pond at the shrine of Manghopir, on the outskirts of Karachi, Jan. 26. The shrine's pond is home to one of the largest colonies of crocodiles in Pakistan. (Athar Hussain / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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A man cries over the bodies of his relatives, killed by gunmen during a shootout, at a morgue in Karachi, Jan. 25. Gunmen on motorcycles killed three lawyers and wounded another in a sectarian attack. The Karachi Bar Association called for a boycott of the courts the following day and called upon the government to take immediate steps to stop the killing of lawyers. (Athar Hussain / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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This frame grab released Jan. 23 from undated video footage by the Pakistani Taliban shows a Taliban militant holding his assault rifle moments before shooting Pakistani soldiers at an undisclosed location. Taliban militants released a video showing the execution of 15 Pakistani soldiers whose bodies were found earlier this month after they were kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for the killings. (-- / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Spectators watch a dog fighting match in the outskirts of Islamabad on Jan. 21. Dog fighting and other forms of animal fighting are common in rural areas of Pakistan where some 70 percent of the population of 167 million reside. (Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Reflected in a mirror, Pakistani street barber Shabaz Hakeem, gives a haircut to his customer Rasheed Khan, in the middle of a street in Rawalpindi, Jan. 19. (Muhammed Muheisen / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, center, waves to supporters upon arrival at the Supreme Court for a hearing in a contempt-of-court of notice, in Islamabad, Jan. 19. Pakistan‘s Supreme Court adjourned the contempt case of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani after a preliminary hearing, delaying a looming political crisis. The court is charging Gilani with contempt for failing to reopen a corruption case against his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari. If convicted, the prime minister could face six months in prison and the loss of hs job. The government is arguing that the president is immune for prosecution while in office. (T Mughal / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Construction work at the strategic 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project, being built with the financial support of China, in Muzaffarabad, Jan. 14. Pakistan faces daily prolonged power outages of more than 10 hours a day across the country, as faces a power shortage of almost 6,000 megawatts because it reportedly failed to build new power plants to keep up with the demand for electricity. The major financiers of the project, whose costs have soared due to delay, include the Kuwait Fund, the Export Import Bank of China, the government of the UAE and the Saudi Fund for Development. (Nasiruddin Mughal / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Arrested Iranian border guards sit at a local court in Kharan district, Jan. 14. The three guards were held in southwestern Baluchistan province along the Iranian border after they allegedly crossed the frontier and shot at a car, killing a Pakistani national. The Iranians reached the area in Washuk district, a few miles inside Pakistan, where they opened fire on a vehicle they were chasing. The guards face muder charges. (AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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A man injured in a bomb blast puts on a shoe before being taken to hospital in the Khyber region, near Peshawar, Jan 10. A bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Pakistani Taliban exploded in a market close to the Afghan border, killing dozens of people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months. (Qazi Rauf / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Pakistan's former ambassador to United States, Husain Haqqani, salutes as he leaves The High Court Building in Islamabad on Jan. 9, after recording his statement before the judicial commission probing a secret memo scandal in which Haqqani allegedly approached U.S. authorities to prevent a possible coup d' etat by the powerful military follwing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. Haqqani, who was forced to resign last month, denied any involvement. (Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Vehicles wait in a long line to fill canisters with natural gas in Islamabad, Jan. 2. Pakistani is currently facing a shortage of natural gas that is used for heating, cooking and to fuel cars and buses, triggering country-wide protests as domestic and industrial consumers suffer. (T. Mughal / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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