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FILE -Members of media report from a road leading to police headquarters, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan issues foreign media guidelines, drawing criticism from press freedom groups

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Navy personnel shift the wreckage of a cargo plane of the private carrier K2 Airways into a naval ship after recovering them from deep sea near Omara, a town some 360 kms. (220 miles) west of Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (Pakistan Navy via AP)

Search continues in rough seas off Pakistan for missing cargo plane crew

By Munir Ahmed and Babar Dogar - Associated Press

In this photo released by Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Navy personnel shift the wreckage of a cargo plane of the private carrier K2 Airways into a naval ship after recovering them from deep sea near Omara, a town some 360 kms. (220 miles) west of Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (Pakistan Navy via AP)

Cargo plane goes missing over the Indian Ocean while en route to Pakistan

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Paramilitary soldiers and police officers stand guard on a road cordoned off near the site of a militant attack at the provincial headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

Pakistan’s military says 3 soldiers were killed in militant attack in Karachi and vows retaliation

By Muhammad Farooq - Associated Press

Rescue workers recover a body from the rubble following a gas explosion in an apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

Gas explosion kills 16 after apartment building partially collapsed in southern Pakistan

Associated Press

People take part in a candle light vigil for the victims of shopping mall fire incident, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

Dozens of body parts are found after Pakistan’s shopping plaza fire

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Rescue workers and firefighters work with heavy machinery to search through the rubble of a burnt building of a multistory shopping plaza following a massive fire in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

Karachi mall fire death toll rises to 23 as rescuers search for dozens missing

By Muhammad Farooq and Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Firefighters try to control a massive fire that was broke out in a multi-story shopping mall in overnight, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammad Farooq)

Death toll rises to 6 in fire at a shopping plaza in the Pakistani city of Karachi

Associated Press

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

By Maria Cheng and Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Rescue workers clear rubble with heavy machinery to search for survivors and bodies at the site of multi-story building collapsed, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Death toll rises to 27 in Pakistan building collapse as rescue ends

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Rescue workers clear rubble with heavy machinery to search for survivors and bodies at the site of multi-story building collapsed, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Six dead after collapse of multistory building in Pakistan’s Karachi

Associated Press

Police officer and paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside the district Malir prison, from where more than 100 inmates escaped overnight, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

Over 100 inmates escape and 1 is killed as a quake prompts the evacuation of a Pakistan prison

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Elephants are seen at the safari park in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

An elephant dies of apparent heart failure in Pakistan weeks after family reunion

Associated Press

A vehicle is seen on fire at the site of an explosion that caused injures and destroyed vehicles at outside the Karachi airport, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Farooq)

A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport

By Adil Jawad and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Peacocks roam on the lawn of historical building "Mohatta Palace," which was built in 1920s and has since been turned into a museum, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Traces of this Pakistani megacity’s past are vanishing, but one flamboyant pink palace endures

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A patient of heatstroke receives treatment at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Various parts of the country continued to experience an intense heat wave conditions, with the temperatures reaching 47 degree Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit) in Nawabshah and other cities, according to the press release of Pakistan Meteorological Department. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Doctors treat thousands of heatstroke victims in southern Pakistan as temperatures soar

By Muhammad Farooq - Associated Press

Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, April 19, 2024. Five Japanese nationals traveling in a van narrowly escaped a suicide attack when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Friday, wounding three passers-by, police said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

5 Japanese workers narrowly escape suicide bombing that targeted their vehicle in Pakistan

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Pakistani bride Dua Khan and groom Asher Khan pose for photo during their wedding ceremony at Radiance banqueting hall, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. There's a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banqueting hall in a middle-class Karachi neighborhood Voices are barely audible above the din of 400 guests, dinner service, music, and the drone whirring around the room. The bride and groom are beaming. Their families and friends jostle for a place with them onstage. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Brides, biryani and marriage multiplexes: Pakistan’s wedding season heats up in cool weather

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan and political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) attend an election campaign rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, less than two weeks before a national parliamentary election that Khan was blocked from running in because of a criminal conviction. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistani police use tear gas to disperse pre-election rally by supporters of former leader Khan

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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept 18, 2023. Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Earlier this month, the government in Sindh introduced a law that threatens to imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their children immunized against polio or eight other common diseases. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

By Adil Jawad and Maria Cheng - Associated Press