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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)
![Heavy security arrangements deployed at the entrance of the Mini Secretariat on December 24, 2021 in Ludhiana, India, following a bomb attack by Sikh separatists. (Photo by Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17520/feature_sikh_2.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=g8h5EEyu)
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Heavy security arrangements deployed at the entrance of the Mini Secretariat on December 24, 2021 in Ludhiana, India, following a bomb attack by Sikh separatists. (Photo by Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
![Taliban police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17796/feature_taliban_police_crop.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=h3wAAtp5)
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Taliban police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
![India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17441/feature_modi.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=4D5mQyvX)
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
![India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends on day three of COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17367/feature_modi.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=MRp1YBF-)
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends on day three of COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
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![The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021 in Darwin, Australia (Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17327/feature_prsystup_kabul.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=nj22lKUt)
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The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021 in Darwin, Australia (Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force/Getty Images)
![A Taliban fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle near the venue of an open-air pro-Taliban rally on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021 (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17313/feature_afghanistan.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=NXRWz00h)
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A Taliban fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle near the venue of an open-air pro-Taliban rally on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021 (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
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![(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Haydn N. Smith)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17310/feature_210919_n_hs181_1334.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=DbmlpML0)
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(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Haydn N. Smith)
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![Pakistani President Arif Alvi reviews the armed forces during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, March 25, 2021. Pakistan on Thursday held the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad (Xinhua/Xinhua via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17304/feature_pakistan_military.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=kvBbPoqf)
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Pakistani President Arif Alvi reviews the armed forces during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, March 25, 2021. Pakistan on Thursday held the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad (Xinhua/Xinhua via Getty Images)
![Members of various hardline Sikh organisations raised pro-Khalistan slogans during the 37th anniversary observances of Operation Blue Star at Golden Temple, on June 6, 2021 in Amritsar, India (Photo by Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/17280/feature_khalistansikhs.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=1b9-U25I)
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Members of various hardline Sikh organisations raised pro-Khalistan slogans during the 37th anniversary observances of Operation Blue Star at Golden Temple, on June 6, 2021 in Amritsar, India (Photo by Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)