Men travel in a boat against the backdrop of a rising sun, as they return from fishing early morning in Karachi, Pakistan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A boy receives polio vaccine drops by anti-polio vaccination workers along a street in Quetta, Pakistan January 2, 2017. (Photo by Naseer Ahmed/Reuters)





A man sorts through peanuts for sale at a shop in Peshawar, Pakistan January 5, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Fishermen from India who were held captive for crossing territorial waters wave from the windows of a train after their release, at Cantonment railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A fisherman from India, who was held captive for crossing territorial waters, lights a cigarette from the windows of a train after his release with others at Cantonment railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A vender warms his hands on a makeshift stove while selling corn kernels during rain in Islamabad, Pakistan January 6, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





Smoke rises from a pan as a boy prepares potato chips to sell from a makeshift stall along a road in Karachi, Pakistan January 10, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man throws a carpet on a wire to put it on display and for sale along a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan, January 12, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A man kisses the grave of Mumtaz Qadri, the man Pakistan executed last year for assassinating a governor who proposed reforming the country’s blasphemy laws, as other collect rose petals from it during their visit to Qadri's shrine on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A woman leaves after visiting a shrine where the grave of Mumtaz Qadri is situated, the man Pakistan executed last year for assassinating a governor who proposed reforming the country’s blasphemy laws, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A bird flies past a labourer, suspended with a rope, as he paints a newly constructed building in Karachi, Pakistan January 17, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Men warm themselves by a fire to escape the cold on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan January 17, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A worker takes a cart full of sugar cane to a processing plant in Charsadda outside Peshawar, Pakistan January 17, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A man blows air to start a fire as he brews tea on a littered ground in Karachi, Pakistan January 18, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man waits for customers while selling umbrellas in the rain in Rawalpindi, Pakistan January 18, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





Men sit on chairs as they ride on a donkey drawn cart in Peshawar, Pakistan January 22, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





Workers cure animal skins at a workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan January 22, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





A man pushes a bicycle loaded with tree branches to be used for heating and cooking, on a road in Islamabad, Pakistan January 23, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





Stock brokers react as they monitor the share market prices from a booth, during trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE), in Karachi, Pakistan January 24, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Tourists visit on a cold winter day after snow fall in the hill-resort town of Murree, northeast of capital Islamabad, Pakistan, January 25, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A woman holds an umbrella as she walks on a road during a cold winter day after snow fall in the hill-resort town of Murree, northeast of capital Islamabad, Pakistan, January 25, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





Members of the transgender community attend Shakeela's party in Peshawar, Pakistan on January 22, 2017. At a party in Peshawar, the guests' saris twirled as they danced to the music and fed each other pieces of cake, but armed police guarding the door indicated this was no normal carefree birthday gathering. The revellers were transgender, people who run the risk of violence in conservative Muslim Pakistan where they often work as dancers at weddings and other parties but are rarely allowed to hold their own celebrations. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





Pakistani customs employee stands amid burning piles of confiscated contraband and narcotics destroyed during a campaign marking International Customs Day in Karachi, Pakistan January 26, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A rickshaw driver looks out the windshield as he drives onto the highway in Mardan, Pakistan January 30, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)