South Asia
South Asia
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![on August 1, 2022, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers (in brown) and Pakistani Rangers take part in the Beating the Retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post, about 35 km from Amritsar.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-1242445216.jpg?h=0ec75886&itok=yPwV9whs)
![The Commonwealth Observer Group, chaired by the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, witnessed the general elections in Nigeria.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.13.2023%20Barnett%20New%20Lines.jpg?h=926e5cfc&itok=Eah6rq1D)
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Ballot boxes for the 2019 Nigerian general elections. (Commonwealth Secretariat via Flickr)
![Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf praying at Karachi International Airport, in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 24, 2013. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.07.2023%20Haqqani%20Washington%20Post.jpg?h=01408832&itok=eMOjXbYc)
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Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf praying at Karachi International Airport, in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 24, 2013. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
![02.04.2023 Haqqani BBC](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.04.2023%20Haqqani%20BBC.jpg?h=41993ea2&itok=lgwNx1wO)
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(Screenshot via BBC News)
In the Media
![Analysis of the causes and consequences of escalating jihadi attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and geostrategic options for India. Anchored by Dr. Sreeram Chaulia and featuring expert commentary by Dr.Aparna Pande, Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, USA](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.05.2023%20Pande%20Indian%20Diplomacy.jpg?h=fbba1689&itok=-GDw22dA)
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(Screenshot via Doordarshan/YouTube)
![Pervez Musharraf](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.05.2023%20Haqqani%20The%20Print.jpg?h=9b315fa2&itok=paZujzkt)
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Pervez Musharraf at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons)
![Husain Haqqani](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/Image%202-6-23%20at%205.01%20PM.jpg?h=aaf41e90&itok=Rzza-3mx)
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(Screenshot via YouTube)
In the Media
![Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for the blast victims in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on January 30, 2023. - A blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan on January 30 killed at least 25 worshippers and wounded 120 more, officials said. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.31.2023%20Haqqani%20BBC.jpg?h=ee03d089&itok=wrHOmo5v)
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Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for survivors in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar, Pakistan, on January 30, 2023. (Abdul Mjaeed/AFP via Getty Images)
In the Media
![haqqani bbc](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/01.31.2023%20Haqqani%20BBC.jpg?h=c0dfebf1&itok=iobCfWBE)
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(Screenshot via BBC)
![A view of stores and markets ahead of their closing time on January 5, 2023, in Islamabad, Pakistan, after the government decided to close stores at 8:30 p.m. to conserve energy as economic woes mount. (Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.25.2023%20Pande%20GIS%20Reports.jpg.jpg?h=0d27ee61&itok=-9TTGi2t)
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A view of stores and markets ahead of their closing time on January 5, 2023, in Islamabad, Pakistan, after the government decided to close stores at 8:30 p.m. to conserve energy as economic woes mount. (Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Commentary
![President Xi Jinping (R) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands before the group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province on September 4, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.16.2023%20Mead%20WSJ.jpg.jpg?h=97fb98f0&itok=KL3IZDvs)
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President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands before the group photo during the BRICS Summit in Fujian, China, on September 4, 2017. (Kenzaburo Fukuhara/AFP via Getty Images)
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![taliban NRF Ahmad Massoud](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.7%20Coffey%20Event.jpg?h=72eefa0f&itok=SOE3zZUC)
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Taliban fighters stand guard during a military street parade in Maymana, Afghanistan, on January 16, 2022. (Elise Blanchard/AFP via Getty Images)
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![Kerala Raksha Yatra - BJP](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/1.13%20Marshall.jpeg?h=623f249a&itok=g1K7y4T1)
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(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)