Bodybuilders flex their muscles during a bodybuilding competition in Karachi on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





Students are seen playing soccer in a field in Peshawar on March 8, 2021 on the International Women's day. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





Women wearing a burqa sit in a queue to collect financial assistance through the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme for families in need, ahead of the Holy month of Ramadan in Peshawar on April 12, 2021. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





A man tries on a traditional cap in preparation for the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Muslims usually increase their religious activities during Ramadan, which begins with the new moon probably next week. Muslims around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam's holiest month amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Police personnel destroy poppy cultivation in the Prang Ghar area of Mohmand Agency, about 100 kms from Peshawar on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





A balloon vendor walks past a shuttered market in Lahore on April 11, 2021, as a lockdown was imposed to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Christians devotees attend an Easter mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore on April 4, 2021. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Women walk past a Hindu temple, that was vandalized by a group of assailants, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, March 29, 2021. Assailants in Pakistan damaged the nearly century-old Hindu temple in the garrison city of Rawalpindi before fleeing the scene. The vandals damaged the door and the stairs of the temple in the attack, which took place on Saturday night, police said. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





A young girl reacts while having a nasal swab sample taken by a health worker at a COVID-19 testing facility in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A health care worker takes a nasal swab sample from a child at a COVID-19 testing facility at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Soldiers march during the military parade to mark Pakistan's National Day in Islamabad on March 25, 2021. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 29, 2021. Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





School staff hold placards reading in Urdu “Save Education” during a protest as they demand the government to reopen all educational institutes, amid smart lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic in Karachi, Pakistan, 12 April 2021. Pakistani authorities imposed smart lockdowns in an effort to curb the outbreak of a third wave of infections with Covid-19. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





Angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, throw stones towards police firing tear gas to disperse them, at a protest against the arrest of their leader Saad Rizvi, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 12, 2021. Pakistan police arrested Rizvi a day after he threatened the government with protests if it did not expel France's ambassador over depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Elephants cool off at a zoo in Karachi, Pakistan, 31 March 2021. Caretakers at Karachi's zoo were working to keep animals cool during a heatwave affecting southern Pakistan. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A man cleans a Mosque ahead of the holy month of Ramadan during coronavirus pandemic in Karachi, Pakistan, 12 April 2021. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Muslims observe it by fasting - neither eating nor drinking – between dawn and sunset. Fasting is the fourth of the five pillars of Islam, the other four being declaration of faith, the observance of the five daily prayers, the payment of alms and the performance of a pilgrimage, or Hajj in Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





People search in the garbage dump to feed their animals, during smart lockdown after new cases of COVID-19 were reported across the country in Quetta, Pakistan, 24 March 2021. Pakistani authorities had imposed smart lockdowns in an effort to curb the outbreak of a third wave of infections with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease. (Photo by Fayyaz Ahmad/EPA/EFE)





A worker cleans an examination hall in a school building after all educational institutes closed in Peshawar, Pakistan, 15 March 2021. The Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood during a press conference with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan at the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) on 10 March decided to close all educational institutions of Peshawar Khyber pakhtunkhwa from 15 March to 28 March and conduct online classes during the time period as the number of Covid-19 case in the country continue to increase. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Religious students take their annual exams sitting on the floor of the Jamia Binoria Islamic seminary in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Binoria is one of the model seminaries which modified its curriculum and added contemporary subjects like computer, mathematics and science. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)