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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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A trader holds a placard reading "prevent unemployment from rising" during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 23, 2023. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)
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People ride past large banners of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif displayed along a street ahead of his arrival in Lahore on October 19, 2023. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
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Coalition Forces fire 120mm illumination rounds using an XM905 Advanced Mortar Protection System from a fire base in the al-Shadaddi region in Syria on February 14, 2023. (Nicholas J. De La Pena via DVIDS)
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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) stands beside his daughter Maryam Nawaz (L) as he waves to his supporters gathered at a park during an event held to welcome him in Lahore on October 21, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Myanmar's then State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, October 19, 2016. (Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Charles De Gaulle and Georges Bidault in Paris, France, on August 26, 1944. (Serge De Sazo/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Service members prepare to board evacuees onto a C-17 Globemaster lll on Aug. 22, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. ( Kylie Barrow via DVIDs)
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Women activists of Pakistani right wing religious party Jamat-e-Islami shout slogans and hold placards in Karachi on August 31, 2023. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images)
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Armed Taliban security personnel near the closed gates of a border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on September 6, 2023. (Shafiullah Kakar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra bows to a portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana at Don Mueang International Airport on August 22, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Lauren DeCicca via Getty Images)
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Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
John Lee
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
