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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)
![New Delhi, India, on September 24, 2023. (Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-1686116099.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=-sflVBtt)
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New Delhi, India, on September 24, 2023. (Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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![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)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-1232302105%20%281%29.jpg?h=f1106bd1&itok=YxsHO28H)
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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)
![Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives at court in Islamabad on October 24, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-1741639218.jpg?h=9c41a118&itok=46aKuw3w)
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives at court in Islamabad on October 24, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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![A family of Afghan nationals sit on a vehicle in Jamrud area of Khyber district on October 6, 2023. (Abdul Majeed/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-1708751423.jpg?h=f3275202&itok=3BUMFx5n)
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A family of Afghan nationals sit on a vehicle in Jamrud area of Khyber district on October 6, 2023. (Abdul Majeed/AFP via Getty Images)
![Protest in Central London on August 13, 2023. (Alsidare Hickson)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/Democratic%20Pakistan.jpg?h=9873c85a&itok=1UH63Xx5)
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Protest in Central London on August 13, 2023. (Alsidare Hickson via Flickr)
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![Afghan refugees in Pakistan. (United Nations Photo via flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/afghan%20refugees%20in%20Pakistan%20.jpg?h=30b7e250&itok=hxaQr93f)
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Afghan refugees in Pakistan. (United Nations Photo via Flickr)
![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)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-1618934162.jpg?h=d123dc41&itok=iXuDmIcY)
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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)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1733662442.jpg?h=4aac3f55&itok=3UOGr9mg)
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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)
![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)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/7636677.jpg?h=11fbf091&itok=y0Zm_b21)
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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)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-11/GettyImages-615585356.jpg?h=566b5f6b&itok=5JL-PZbO)
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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 - Charles De Gaulle And Georges Bidault in front Arc de triomphe . (Photo by Serge DE SAZO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-120455835.jpg?h=eba2a3f6&itok=ec7O7Zcz)
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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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