South Asia

Vehicles travel along the treacherous Srinagar Leh highway on August 27, 2024, in Ladakh, India. Ladakh is a strategically important region due to ongoing territorial disputes with Pakistan and China. (Yawar Nazir via Getty Images)

A Scorpène-class submarine is launched at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai on April 20, 2022. (Ashish Vaishnav via Getty Images)

Use this for the caption: Flags on display at an India–United States summit meeting on February 25, 2020, in New Delhi. (Pallava Bagla via Getty Images)

Workers install a solar panel at the Adani Group–owned Khavda Renewable Energy Park in Khavda on January 12, 2024. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images)

Activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party take part in a public rally in Lahore on September 21, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

People wave Indian flags as an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state, on July 14, 2023. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP via Getty Images)

The Russian foreign minister and the deputy foreign minister of the Taliban government in Afghanistan attend the Moscow Format in Moscow, Russia, on October 4, 2024. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Minoru Kihara leave after the guard of honour ceremony in New Delhi on August 20, 2024. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to his supporters during a rally in Srinagar on September 19, 2024. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images)

Muslim devotees offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in the old quarters of New Delhi on April 11, 2024. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images)

US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrive for their meeting during the Quad Leaders Summit in Tokyo on May 24, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban security personnel stand guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on the eve of the third anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on August 13, 2024. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images)