Pakistani trucks carrying NATO and US military vehicles cross the Quetta Chaman highway at Kojak Pass border area after leaving the southern Afghanistan in Chaman, Pakistan. The trucks head to the port of Karachi, Pakistan as the pullout continues, ending a NATO/USA decade-long military combat involvement in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. There are approximately 60,000 American troops in Afghanistan at present.
Kashmiri Muslim women pray in observance of the Martyr Day of Hazrat Ali, cousin of Prophet Muhammad, on the 21st day of Ramadan at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, India.
A flood-affected villager holds an item above water as she attempts to reach higher ground on the outskirts of Patna in India. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September and usually brings flooding, accounts for about 80 percent of India's annual rainfall.