The United States' interests in South Asia include expanding freedom for individuals as well as nations, promoting economic prosperity and the search for peace. South Asia is a region of remarkable social, economic and technological change, yet it is the only place in the world where there has been a recent danger that two nuclear-armed countries could go to war. It is also the front line of the Global War on Terrorism.

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