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Commuters ride past an electronic board featuring Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian (C), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (L) and President Asif Ali Zardari (R), displayed along a road in Islamabad ahead of Pezeshkian’s visit to Pakistan amid US-Iran peace talks on June 23. — AFP

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