Members of the Pakistani Christian minority parade on a road ahead of Christmas, in Karachi, Pakistan, 11 December 2022. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





People eat breakfast at a famus food street of Gawalmandi, an old area of Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, December 11, 2022. Gawalmandi is the city's neighborhood crammed with people, vehicles, animals, and food stalls. (Photo by K. M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





People douse a cargo supply truck after it was hit during the artillery shelling, in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan on December 11, 2022. (Photo by Abdul Khaliq Achakzai/Reuters)





A Pakistani laborer works at a factory that produces handicrafts made up of Salt stones in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 December 2022. Pakistan hosts Khewra Salt mines, the world's second and Pakistan's largest and oldest salt mine and a major tourist attaction, drawing up to 250,000 visitors a year and dates back to 320 BCE. (Photo by Rehan Khan/EPA/EFE)





Boys play cricket close to Karachi airport on December 15, 2022 in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Matthew Lewis/Getty Images)





Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori presents a piece of cake to a female elephant named Sonia on the occassion of her 16th birthday celebration at the Safari Park in Karachi, Pakistan on December 15, 2022. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Security officials patrol on a blocked road leading to a counter-terrorism center, where several Pakistani Taliban detainees have taken police and others hostage inside the compound, in Bannu, a district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Monday, December 19, 2022. Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at the counter-terrorism center, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility, officials said Monday. (Photo by Muhammad Hasib/AP Photo)





Afghan university students chant slogans and hold placards during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, December 24, 2022. (Photo by Arshad Butt/AP Photo)





Jason, 17, waits for customers as he sells Santa Claus costumes, in front of the St. Patrick's Cathedral, on the Christmas eve celebrations, in Karachi, Pakistan on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





People celebrate Christmas eve along an illuminated street in Islamabad on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





A Pakistani stockbroker monitors the latest share prices during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi, Pakistan, 26 December 2022. Benchmark PSE-100-Index was down 39,669.20 close at 40,367.43 points, as former Prime Minister Imran Khan assert dissolving of provincial assemblies of Punjab and KPK. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A man drinks tea at a roadside stall as heavy fog reduces visibility in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, January 2, 2023. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A cotton candy seller waits for customers on a road as heavy fog reduces visibility in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, January 2, 2023. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Pakistani vendors sell jaggery made from brown sugar at a jaggery market in Peshawar, Pakistan, 02 January 2023. Jaggery is one of the popular foods consumed in Pakistan during the winter season for warming body temperature and provides energy. Pakistan is the world's sixth-largest producer of sugarcane in terms of acreage, and the eighth largest sugar producer. The sugar industry is the country's second-largest agriculture-based industry after textiles. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Labourers arrive at fruit market amid smoggy and foggy conditions early in the morning in Lahore on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





People visit a market for shopping in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, January 4, 2023. Authorities on Wednesday ordered shopping malls and markets to close by 8:30 p.m. as part of a new energy conservation plan aimed at easing Pakistan's economic crisis, officials said. The move comes amid talks with the International Monetary Fund. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





People attend a funeral in snow-covered Saonaar Village, Neelum Valley in Pakistani administered Kashmir, 09 January 2023. Many cities in Pakistan are experiencing cold weather conditions during which regular daytime temperatures fall below zero degree Celsius in the northern part of the country. (Photo by Amiruddin Mughal/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man and children ride a motorcycle on their way to school after they were reopened in Lahore, Pakistan, 09 January 2023. Schools were reopened on 09 January after the winter vacations were extended for a week on direction of Lahore High Court due to bad air quality index. (Photo by Rahat Dar/EPA/EFE)





Internally displaced flood-affected children attend a mobile school class near makeshift camp in the flood-hit area of Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province on January 9, 2023. The UN chief called on January 9 for “massive investments” to help Pakistan recover from last year's devastating floods and better resist climate change, as financial pledges poured in. (Photo by Fida Hussain/AFP Photo)





People stand in a long queue and wait to buy subsidized sacks of wheat flour in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, January 9, 2023. People are suffering from recent price hike in wheat flour in Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)