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Pakistan honors Bill Gates for efforts on poverty, disease HEALTH

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Paki- probably set us up to finish
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vised ceremony, after he Department, Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi, left, listens to the Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
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