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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)
![Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2022. (DoD Photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James K. Lee)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-04/7199877.jpg?h=461c5395&itok=fUnOTsS0)
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John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2022. (DoD photo by James K. Lee)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17, 2023. (Yoshikazu Tsuno via Getty Images)
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Electoral agents counting votes during 2018 Pakistani general election. (Wikimedia Commons)
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The Brahmos supersonic cruise missile that was developed between India and Russia. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis Sygma via Getty Images)
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Activists of the Bhartiya Janata Party shout slogans against the state government for the recent alleged rapes and murders around the state in Kolkata on April 12, 2022. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images)
![Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. Once airborne, aircrew assigned to the U-28A Draco provided surveillance and reconnaissance of the ground situation at the airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Lt. Col. Scott Hardman)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.13.2023%20Haqqani%20JBS.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=qBJokAoB)
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Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)
![President Joe Biden greets India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Summit on Supply Chain Resilience Sunday, October 21, 2021, at La Nuvola Convention Center in Rome. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.14.2023%20Haqqani%20Pande%20The%20Hill.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=I-PdQerH)
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Joe Biden greets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Summit on Supply Chain Resilience on October 21, 2021, in Rome, Italy. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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![A U.S. Air Force security forces raven, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, maintains security aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.10.2023%20Coffey%20Arab%20News.jpg?h=58c8a5e7&itok=otnubrN3)
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A US Air Force security forces raven maintains security aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan on August 24, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Donald R. Allen)
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![A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.07.2023%20Haqqani%20John%20Batchelor.jpg?h=adbb760b&itok=BzT73fhG)
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A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)
![US Army's 11th Airborne Division Soldiers and Indian Army's 71st Mountain Brigade Soldiers stand at parade rest during a rehearsal prior to the closing ceremony for bilateral training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2022 in Auli, India, on December 2, 2022. (US Army Photo by Christopher Dennis)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.06.2023%20Nagao%20ORF_0.jpg?h=0431bdac&itok=SJmozOe5)
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Members of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division and the Indian Army's 71st Mountain Brigade stand at parade rest during a rehearsal prior to the closing ceremony for bilateral training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2022 in Auli, India, on December 2, 2022. (US Army Photo by Christopher Dennis)
![Policemen stand guard along a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 1, 2023. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.03.2023%20Haqqani%20FP_0.jpg?h=dcb27c7c&itok=kitCMLF_)
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Policemen stand guard along a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 1, 2023. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)