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The US is dedicating enhanced diplomatic, military, and foreign assistance resources to facilitate regional peace, economic growth and development, energy cooperation and people-to-people exchanges in the Indo-Pacific.

During the event 'Joint US-Pakistan Let Girls Learn', Michelle said with this funding, the United States will build more than a dozen new schools and rehabilitate hundreds of others.

The dossiers were handed over to the US side by Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, a statement issued by the Pakistan government. The statement came after US Secretary of State John Kerry met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Sharif said the Kashmir issue is the bone of contention between the two neighbours and it will have to be resolved for peace and stability in the region.

Earnest said Obama is looking forward to welcoming the Pakistani Prime Minister to the White House later this week.

Media reports in India had cited residents of Geeta's native village in Bihar's Saharsa district saying she was married to Umesh Mahto when she was a minor. The reports said they have a son, who is now 12 years old.

Senegal and Uruguay were also among the five countries that garnered the required votes for council seats during a secret-ballot poll held at the UN General Assembly.

The documents were declassified amid reports that the Obama Administration is considering a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan.

The attack comes two months after Punjab Home Minister Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack on his political office in Attock's Shadi Khan village.

Bodies of the slain activists were seen strewn across the ground after the blasts, with the banners they had been holding lying next to them for the "Work, Peace and Democracy" rally.

Four-year-old Ahmad went missing about two-weeks ago in Somal village in the thickly forested Chilas area from a spring where he had accompanied his mother in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region of PoK.

The actual number of fatalities is presumably higher, since the official figure reflects deaths in Brazil from dengue from the beginning of the year just through the end of August.

During a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Ban "reiterated that there is no military solution to the conflict and asked Iran to exercise its influence in promoting a political solution," his office said on Monday.

Liu Yunshan, a member of the Communist Party's politburo standing committee, and other officials will attend the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the North's ruling party, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The 15-member committee spent weeks reviewing the text of the July 14 agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), for what it said could be breaches of negotiators' "red lines".