South Asia

Military troops patrol near a polling station during Pakistan's national elections in Lahore on February 8, 2024. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)

Pakistan election commission workers prepare election materials at a distribution center in Karachi on February 6, 2024. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan men load food packets from the World Food Programme onto a vehicle in Baraki Barak, Afghanistan, on January 7, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

Joint session of the National Assembly and Senate in Islamabad, Pakistan, on February 14, 2020. (Murat Kula via Getty Images)

Commuters move past the Pakistan People's Party flags hung over a street in Karachi on January 16, 2024, ahead of the country's upcoming general elections. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)

Pakistan People's Party supporters attend an election campaign rally in Lahore on January 21, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

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A supporter of Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NFR) and the leading Afghan fighter against the Taliban, holds a flag with an NRF logo as he demonstrates outside Concordia Press Club in Vienna, Austria, on September 16, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Joe Biden at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India, on September 9, 2023. (Press Information Bureau/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Indian President Droupadi Murmu along with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Saudi Arabian counterpart and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in New Delhi on September 11, 2023. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images)

New Delhi, India, on September 24, 2023. (Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg hold a press conference on April 14, 2021, at NATO's headquarters in Brussels. (Kenzo Tribouillard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)