Michael Kugelman is the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief and a senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council. An analyst of the region for nearly two decades, he previously directed the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13, 2025.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, center, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, watch during the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
An overhead shot shows a crowd of hundreds of people cheering and reaching their arms toward a red bus parked in the middle of the crowd. Rahman stands inside at the front of the bus, visible through the windshield as he lifts his arms and waves. Security personnel in helmets and vests cluster close around the car.
Two soldiers in camouflage military fatigues face opposite directions as they stand at the peak of a hill covered with glass and small white flowers, with fluffy white clouds floating in the blue sky overhead. Tall snow-capped mountains extend to the horizon in the background.
A crowd of dozens of people is seen outdoors, mostly from the shoulders up. A few people in the background stand up on objects to see over the crowd. A few of the people wave Bangladeshi flags; one man holds up a sign with a photo of Rahman with his fist in the air.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the press as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 13.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China, on Sept. 1.
Security personnel stand guard as demonstrators attempt to demolish the residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first president and father of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 17.
