Emily Schneider is a program associate in the International Security Program at New America. She is also an assistant editor of the South Asia channel.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech at presidential residence Bangabhaban in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on June 7, 2015. Bangladesh and India on June 6, 2015 sealed a historic land pact to swap territories, which will finally allow tens of thousands of people living in border enclaves to choose their nationality after decades of stateless limbo. AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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This photograph taken on May 23, 2015, shows Afghan militia forces as they stand with their weapons in Kunduz. The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian police officers take part in a wreath laying ceremony for two slain paramilitary policemen at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) headquarters in Srinagar on May 12, 2015. Suspected rebels shot dead two paramilitary policemen who were on patrol in Indian-administered Kashmir on May 11, police said. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)
Activists of the banned Pakistani charity organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) shout anti-India slogans during a protest to mark Kashmir Solidarity day in Karachi on February 5, 2015. Pakistan observed Kashmir Solidarity Day on February 5 to denounce Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region claimed in whole by both countries. AFP PHOTO / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan security forces arrive at the site of a suicide attack at the foreign aid workers' guesthouse in Kabul on November 29, 2014. Taliban militants attacked a foreign compound in Kabul, killing two employees in the latest strike to hit the Afghan capital during the final weeks of NATO's 13-year war against the insurgents. AFP PHOTO/Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian cycle rickshaw riders sleep during the heat of the day in New Delhi on May 28, 2015. More than 1,100 people have died in a blistering heatwave sweeping India, authorities said, as forecasters warned searing temperatures would continue. AFP PHOTO/Chandan KHANNA (Photo credit should read Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks as he introduces this cabinet nominees to parliament in Kabul on January 20, 2015. Ghani on January 20 introduced his cabinet nominees to the parliaments lower house, or Wolesi Jirga, for a vote of confidence. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of freed prisoner of war US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, including representatives of the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and March Forward, hold up a poster of Bergdahl during a rally in front of the White House in Washington, DC, June 10, 2014, to welcome Bergdahl home after 5-years of being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a press conference at the Presidential palace in Kabul on May 11, 2015. Nineteen of 31 Shiite Muslims abducted in Afghanistan were released May 11, in exchange for scores of Uzbek militants in government prisons, provincial officials said, ending a two-month ordeal which marked a rare attack on ethnic minorities.But President Ashraf Ghani denied any prisoners were exchanged to secure the release of the ethnic Hazaras who were seized in late February by masked gunmen from a bus in southern Zabul province. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (2nd R) looks at Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah as they meet with members of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
In this picture shows the building of Axact company after the raid by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Rawalpindi on May 19, 2015. Pakistani investigators Tuesday carried out raids on a firm accused of running a global fake degree empire, officials said, confiscating computers and holding employees for questioning as the scandal deepened. AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
In this picture taken on January 3, 2015, Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers fire a 120mm mortar round during an ongoing anti-Taliban operation in Dangam district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the eastern Kunar province. Afghan security forces have launched a joint anti-militant operations in several parts of Dangam district of Kunar province. So far in the operation, 157 armed insurgents have been killed and 112 others wounded, seven security personnel killed and six others were wounded in the past 25 days, police chief Abdul Habib SyedKhalil said. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 17, 2015. A powerful suicide blast struck near Kabul airport during the peak morning rush hour on May 17, with several casualties feared, an official said. "Three civilian vehicles, one of them belonging to foreign troops are damaged at the site of the attack," Najib Danish, deputy interior ministry spokesman, told AFP. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 15: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) after a press conference at the Great Hall of the People on May 15, 2015 in Beijing, China. Modi is on a three-day state visit to China. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara - Pool/Getty Images)
