Boys play cricket amid rain at a park in Karachi, Pakistan on December 27, 2021. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Afghan refugee schoolchildren attend a class at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, December 29, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A boy is silhouetted against the setting sun as he plays cricket on New Year's Eve, in Peshawar, Pakistan on December 31, 2021. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Students hold candles during a rally to pray for peace in year 2022 on New Year's Eve in Lahore, Pakistan, 31 December 2021. (Photo by Rahat Dar/EPA/EFE)





Pakistani lab technicians wait for people to take coronavirus tests at the PIMS Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, January 3, 2022. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A man receives a dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine at a vaccination centre in Karachi, Pakistan, January 3, 2022. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man bakes local bread at a bakery in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Men wait to receive alms as they cover themselves with plastic sheets in a rain in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A girl holds her sister as she poses for a photograph in a rain in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Children play along a muddy street after rain in Peshawar, Pakistan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A man drives his three-wheeler passenger vehicle covered with plastic sheet during rainy day in Lahore on January 7, 2022. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A motorcyclist covers themselves with plastic sheet to protect from rain at a highway, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, January 7, 2022. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





A woman cries inside an ambulance after she lost her family member during a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, some 28 miles (45 kilometers) north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, January 8, 2022. Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit) amid heavy snowfall at Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree overnight, killing multiple people who were stuck in their vehicles, officials said Saturday. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Mourners carry the coffins of victims, who died trapped in a traffic jam when a blizzard from January 7 onwards felled trees and blocked narrow roads leading in and out of the resort hill town of Murree, during the funeral in Lahore on January 9, 2022. Army rescuers on January 9 cleared routes around a Pakistan hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Pakistani brides and grooms pose for photograph during a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, January 9, 2022. The Pakistan Hindu Council organized a mass marriage ceremony for 76 couples who could not afford their individual wedding expenses. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A girl carries a sack of recyclables as she walks amid fog during morning hours in Peshawar, Pakistan, January 10, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A Pakistani health worker takes a sample to test for COVID-19 during a surge in cases of Omicron in Islamabad, Pakistan, 11 January 2022. In the last 24 hours, 3,785 tests were conducted among contacts of the positive cases and suspects out of which 64 males and 49 females tested positive with the positivity rate of 2.98pc. (Photo by Sohail Shahzad/EPA/EFE)





Pakistani anti-riot forces clash with doctors during a protest in Quetta, Pakistan, 12 January 2022. Doctors and paramedics across Balochistan have been protesting for months demanding better facilities, medicines, and proper machinery at health care centers. (Photo by Fayyaz Ahmad/EPA/EFE)





Five year-old Fatima plays as women weave a carpet in a home workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan, January 13, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)