KATHY GANNON

November 12, 2018 at 7:27 am

Pakistan frees 2 Taliban members as US envoy visits region

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan released two Taliban officials on Monday during U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad's latest visit to the region, in what could be part...

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November 11, 2018 at 10:57 pm

Fake images of woman acquitted of blasphemy roil Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani government, already struggling with a crisis surrounding a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy charges after eight years on death row, now...

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November 9, 2018 at 5:20 am

AP EXPLAINS: Pakistani Christians, an embattled minority VIEW

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The uproar surrounding Aasia Bibi — a Pakistani Christian woman who was acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from death row but...

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November 7, 2018 at 8:56 pm

Woman freed in blasphemy case still in hiding in Pakistan VIEW

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A week after Pakistan's Supreme Court acquitted her of blasphemy, a Christian woman who had been on death row for eight years...

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November 1, 2018 at 4:26 am

AP Interview: Karzai welcomes Gitmo 5 into peace discussion VIEW

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who still wields considerable influence in today's Afghanistan despite being out of office for four years,...

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October 30, 2018 at 12:03 am

Taliban: 5 freed from US military prison now in Qatar office

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured...

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October 29, 2018 at 5:55 am

Poll reveals unprecedented misery among Afghans

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans worry more, laugh less and are more pessimistic than any nation surveyed by Gallup since 2006, when the group began...

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October 26, 2018 at 9:08 pm

Afghans vote in south Kandahar’s delayed elections VIEW

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Security was tight throughout southern Kandahar on Saturday as voters waited hours in line to cast their ballots in parliamentary elections...

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October 19, 2018 at 7:48 pm

Violence, confusion surround Afghan parliamentary elections VIEW

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years suffered from violence and chaos Saturday, with a multitude of attacks killing at least...

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October 18, 2018 at 10:36 pm

Stakes high in Afghan election as US seeks peace pact VIEW

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The stakes in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have never been higher, coming just two days after the Taliban assassinated two...

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