People gather at a church building vandalized by protesters in Jaranwala, Pakistan on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Fayyaz Hussain/Reuters)





A Christian man looks at a home vandalized by an angry Muslim mob in Jaranwala in the Faisalabad district, Pakistan, Thursday, August 17, 2023. Police arrested more than 100 Muslims in overnight raids from an area in eastern Pakistan where a Muslim mob angered over the alleged desecration of the Quran by a Christian man attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon troops to restore order, officials said Thursday. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A Christian woman weeps after looking at her home vandalized by an angry Muslim mob in Jaranwala in the Faisalabad district, Pakistan, Thursday, August 17, 2023. Police arrested more than 100 Muslims in overnight raids from an area in eastern Pakistan where a Muslim mob angered over the alleged desecration of the Quran by a Christian man attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon troops to restore order, officials said Thursday. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Police officials inspect a burnt Salvation Army church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 17, 2023, a day after an attack by Muslim men following spread allegations that Christians had desecrated the Koran. Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in central Pakistan on August 17, after hundreds of Muslim men rampaged through its streets setting fire to churches and ransacking homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





A conv0y of paramilitary forces and police patrol on a road after an angry Muslim mob attacked a Christian area in Jaranwala in the Faisalabad district, Pakistan, Thursday, August 17, 2023. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Commuters make their way along a motorway during a heavy rainfall in Islamabad on August 17, 2023. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





Members of the Christian minority gesture as they shout slogans during a protest against mob attacks that erupted the day before in Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 17 August 2023. Armed mobs in Jaranwala targeted two churches and private homes, setting them on fire and causing widespread destruction. The attack was sparked by the discovery of torn pages of the Muslims holy book Koran with alleged blasphemous content near a Christian colony. (Photo by Rahat Dar/EPA)





Commuters wait in traffic after other commuters blocked a road while sheltering under a bridge during a heavy rainfall in Islamabad on August 17, 2023. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





A member of the Christian community holds up a cross during a protest against Faisalabad violence incidents, in Karachi, Pakistan, 17 August 2023. Armed mobs in Jaranwala targeted two churches and private homes, setting them on fire and causing widespread destruction. The attack was sparked by the discovery of torn pages of the Muslims holy book Koran with alleged blasphemous content near a Christian colony. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A policeman stands guard on the torched Salvation Army Church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 20, 2023, after mob attacked several Pakistani churches over blasphemy allegations. A Muslim cleric is among a dozen people being investigated for using mosque loudspeakers to order protests against alleged blasphemy by Christians which erupted into mob violence in Pakistan earlier this week, a senior police official said. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalised when hundreds rampaged through a Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala in Punjab province on August 16. (Photo by Ghazanfar Majid/AFP Photo)





Christians women hold a demonstration condemning the recent attack on a Christian area by an angry Muslim mob, In Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, August 20, 2023. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





People with cattle and their belongings wade through the flood affected area of Chanda Singh Wala village in Kasur district on August 22, 2023. Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, an emergency services representative said on August 23. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





People watch as an army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 22, 2023. Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on August 22, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. (Photo by Prateek Kumar/AFP Photo)





Youngsters, left, who were trapped in a broken cable car, receive first aid following their rescue, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, August 22, 2023. Army commandos using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift rescued eight people from a broken cable car dangling hundreds of meters (feet) above a canyon Tuesday in a remote part of Pakistan, authorities said. (Photo by Nasir Mahmood/AP Photo)





This handout photograph taken on August 22, 2023 and released by the Pakistan's Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) shows an army soldier (top) rescueing a student survivor, who was trapped in a cable car following an incident, in Pashto village, northwestern Pakistan. Military helicopters and zipline experts rescued eight people, including six school boys, trapped for hours in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistan valley. (Photo by Handout/ISPR via AFP Photo)





Rescue officials evacuate victims on a boat from flooded areas in Noora Nath, Pakpattan district, Punjab province, Pakistan, 23 August 2023. Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to emergency services on 23 August. The province faces the largest flood in 35 years along the Sutlej River, caused by water discharge upstream from neighboring India, provincial Relief Commissioner Nabeel Javed said. Rains and floods leave significant human and material losses in South Asian countries every year, especially during the monsoon period between June and September. (Photo by Faisal Kareem/EPA/EFE)





A Pakistani cook, right, prepare tea at a local hotel on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, August 24, 2023. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A police officer observes area at a checkpoint on a road leading to the District Jail, in Attock, Pakistan, Wednesday, August 30, 2023. A court asked the official in charge of the Attock prison to keep former Prime Minister Khan there until at least Wednesday, when Khan is expected to face a hearing on charges of “exposing an official secret document” in an incident last year when he waved a confidential diplomatic letter at a rally. The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of him, his lawyers and court officials said. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





Pakistani Hindu girls with their brother celebrate the Hindu festival 'Raksha Bandhan' at a temple in Karachi on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





A man walks along closed market stalls after traders called for a shutter down strike to protest against the inflation in Peshawar, Pakistan, 31 August 2023. Protests against inflated electricity bills have erupted in several cities across Pakistan, with demonstrators torching their monthly bills, and trade leaders and representatives expressing concerns about excessive charges. People struggling to make ends meet have been hit hard by high electricity bills, and the government's failure to reduce prices and additional taxes is a major issue. The promises of cheap electricity made during privatization have not been fulfilled, leading traders and the general public to demand a reduction in prices and taxes. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)