Workers carry bunches of bananas to be auctioned at a wholesale fruit market, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, February 26, 2025. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A man clean a mosque ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan, 27 February 2025. The beginning of Ramadan is expected to fall on 01 March 2025, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the nighttime and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





A security official checks the site of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, February 28, 2025. (Photo by Arshad Butt/AP Photo)





City dwellers visit Clifton Beach in Karachi, Pakistan, one of the most popular spots for both local and foreign tourists on March 3, 2025. They enjoyed the beautiful weather by taking rides on colorfully decorated camels and horses. (Photo by Adsiz Gunebakan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





People gather for the funeral of the victims in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, Pakistan, 05 March 2025. Suspected insurgents attacked an army base in Bannu district, northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding many others on the evening of 04 March, according to police. Authorities stated that two suicide bombers detonated explosive-laden vehicles at the cantonment around 6:30 p.m., causing massive explosions that destroyed nearby houses and mosques. The Pakistani Taliban-affiliated group Jaish Al-Fursan claimed responsibility for the attack. (Photo by Abdullah Khan/EPA/EFE)





People attend the funeral prayers for the victims of the previous day's suicide bombing in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Photo by Ijaz Muhammad/AP Photo)





A worker prepares vermicelli, used in the production of seviyan (vermicelli pudding), a popular dessert, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, at a workshop in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 11 March 2025. Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadan by praying at night and abstaining from food and drink between sunrise and sunset. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA/EFE)





A worker prepares vermicelli, used in the production of seviyan (vermicelli pudding), a popular dessert, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, at a workshop in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 11 March 2025. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA/EFE)





A worker prepares vermicelli, used in the production of seviyan (vermicelli pudding), a popular dessert, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, at a workshop in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 11 March 2025. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA/EFE)





A passenger, who was rescued from a train after it was attacked by separatist militants, receives medical aid at the Mach Railway Station in Mach, Balochistan, Pakistan, on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





An injured train passenger is being transported following an operation against armed militants who ambushed the train in the remote mountainous area in Mach, southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025. More than 340 train passengers taken hostage by a militant group were freed on March 12 by security forces after a 30-hour siege, an army official told AFP, confirming that 27 off-duty soldiers were shot by militants. (Photo by Banaras Khan/AFP Photo)





Youths from the Pakistani Hindu community pause for a photo as they celebrate the Holi Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Hindu women watch the procession as they celebrate Hindu festival of Holi in Tharparkar district of the desert town of Mithi, south-eastern Pakistan, on March 13, 2025. In a desert town in Pakistan, Hindus prepare meals for fasting Muslims, who in turn gather to welcome a Holi procession, a rare moment of religious solidarity in the Islamic nation. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





People walk on the dry patch of the Indus River, in Jamshoro, Pakistan on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Yasir Rajput/Reuters)





Bystanders look at the wreckage of a bus in Noshki town of Balochistan province on March 17, 2025, a day after an explosives laden car hit one of the seven buses of a convoy, a bombing carried out allegedly by the separatist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). Separatists in southwest Pakistan killed at least five paramilitaries and wounded more than 30 on March 16, police told AFP, days after an attack on a train in Balochistan province left dozens dead. (Photo by AFP Photo)





Veiled women wait in a line to receive free food being distributed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Muslims offer third Friday prayer during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





A Muslim reads verses of the Quran as he observes “Itikaf”, that requires staying in seclusion in a mosque spending most time in prayer and reading the Quran during the last 10 days of the Islamic fasting on month of Ramadan, at the historical Mahabat Khan Mosque, in Peshawar, Pakistan Friday, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Women look at footwear as they visit a market to shop for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr celebrations, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)