Courtney Schuster is a research associate with the International Security Program at New America and an assistant editor with the South Asia Channel.
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Afghan security forces take position near the main prison building after an attack in Ghazni on September 14, 2015. Taliban insurgents in military uniform set off a car bomb and stormed an Afghan prison on September 14, freeing hundreds of inmates and killing four policemen in the country's largest jailbreak in years. AFP PHOTO/ Rahmatullah Alizadah (Photo credit should read Rahmatullah Alizadah/AFP/Getty Images)
A US flag is placed on the 9/11 memorial before the ceremony to commemorate the 14th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2015 in New York. AFP PHOTO/KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistan Rangers Director General (Punjab) Major General Umar Farooq Burki (L) shakes hand with Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector General ( IG) Anil Paliwal at the Wagah border crossing between India and Pakistan on September 9, 2015. Members of the Pakistan Rangers are in India for talks with the Border Security Force, scheduled to take place between September 10-13. AFP PHOTO/NARINDER NANU (Photo credit should read NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)
A Pakistani policeman walks through the scene of a suicide bomb attack in the town of Jamrud in the Khyber tribal agency on September 1, 2015. A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 31 others when he blew himself up outside a local government office in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area, officials said. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Visitors look at a model of a Pakistan-made unmanned aircraft, or drone, during the International Defence Exhibition And Seminars (Ideas) in the Pakistani city of Karachi on December 2, 2014. Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) chief December 2 said Pakistan plans to induct a batch of 50 home assembled multi-role JF-17 Thunder aircraft into its airforce. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistan Prime Minister Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz addresses a press briefing in Islamabad on August 22, 2015. Pakistan's national security adviser insisted that he was ready to travel to New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart despite a row between the arch-rivals over his planned meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders. AFP PHOTO/ Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
An Indian policeman searches a Kashmiri youth at a checkpoint in Srinagar on August 11, 2015, ahead of the country's Independence Day celebrations. Indian troops intensified search operations on the eve of Independence Day, which separatists observe as a "black day".The Himalayan region of Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan, but claimed in full by both, since the two countries gained independence from Britain in 1947. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian people crowd to get onto a local passenger train at a railway station in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, on September 2, 2015. Millions of workers across India held a 24-hour strike September 2 in protest at right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policies, which they say will put jobs at risk and hurt ordinary people. Some 150 million workers, including those in the banking, manufacturing, construction and coal mining sectors, were expected to walk off the job. AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM (Photo credit should read NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)
The television screen on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building features Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presenting the interim budget to parliament, in Mumbai on February 17, 2014. India's finance minister Chidambaram defended his embattled ruling Congress party as he announced the interim budget and steered clear of populist measures, despite fears of a looming electoral defeat in the coming months. AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE (Photo credit should read PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistan members of Jamiat Nazriati party pray for Afghanistan's Taliban chief Mullah Omar, at a gathering in Quetta on August 1, 2015. The Taliban movement Mullah Omar founded on July 30, 2015 confirmed the reclusive warrior-cleric had died, saying "his health condition deteriorated in the last two weeks. AFP PHOTO / Banaras KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
395454 01: (UNDATED PHOTO) Mullah Omar, chief of the Taliban, is shown in this headshot photo. Military forces from the United States and Britain have begun attacking targets October 7, 2001 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Getty Images)
Afghan security personnel gather at the site of a bomb blast that targeted NATO forces in Kabul on July 7, 2015. A bomb blast targeted NATO forces in Kabul, a spokesman for the coalition told AFP, as the Taliban step up attacks as part of their annual summer offensive. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
India's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a meeting in New Delhi on May 27, 2014. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for landmark talks in New Delhi May 27 in a bid to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Sonachura, INDIA: An Indian villager pours water on the field for irrigation, as others wait to cross a trench on the way to Sonachura, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Kolkata, 08 January 2007. The death toll in clashes over the proposed purchase of farmland to build special economic zones in India's Marxist-ruled West Bengal state has risen to 11, police said. The violence is the latest in a series of nationwide protests, mainly by poor villagers, against the government buying farmland for private investment projects. AFP PHOTO/ Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY (Photo credit should read DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani security personnel gather as hashish and heroin seized in an ongoing military operation against militants is destroyed in the Khyber tribal agency on April 23, 2015. The Pakistan military has been stepping up its response the country's Islamist insurgency, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians since 2004 when Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants fled from Afghanistan to its tribal areas. AFP PHOTO/ A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)
