South Asia: Photos of the year

An Indian farmer walks through a field of sunflowers at an agriculture fair in Bangalore.

Children in Kabul pursue a kite as they celebrate the Afghan New Year.

A devotee offers prayers to the sun at the Hindu festival of Chhath at Hyderabad in India.

A US Army sergeant leads his platoon on a mission in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, site of some of the heaviest fighting of the war.

A Pakistani man warms milk next to his shop on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Young and elderly Muslims celebrate Eid in October in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Kashmiri fishermen in their boat in November on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir.

Children dress up as Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi during a peace rally in Amritsar to mark the anniversary of his birth in 1869.

An injured Oriental White-backed Vulture being cared for in the Indian city of Mumbai. Several vulture species in Asia are close to extinction.

Supporters of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, father of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, commemorate the 29th anniversary of his death next to his ancestral grave.

Nearly four million trucks went off the road in India in July after their owners began an indefinite strike to protest against rising fuel bills.

In May tribal people in the Indian state of Jharkand performed a ritual they believed would help bring rain.

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