An injured man is shifted to a hospital following a blast targeting a gathering of Islamic political party Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI-F), in Peshawar, Pakistan, 30 July 2023. At least 40 people were killed and several injured in an explosion at the JUI-F workers convention in Khar, police said. (Photo by Arshad Arbab/EPA)





Injured people receive medical treatment a day after a suicide bomb blast targeted a gathering of Islamic political party Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI-F) in Khar, Bajaur district, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, 31 July 2023. At least 44 people were killed and dozens were injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted a workers' convention of the Islamic political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) in Khar on 30 July 2023, police said. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing and wounding multiple people in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim, who was killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





A boy plays at the edge of Naguman River on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on August 1, 2023. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A supporter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, covers herself with his PTI party flag outside the Zaman park, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, August 5, 2023. Pakistani police on Saturday arrested Khan at his home in the eastern city of Lahore after a court convicted him in an asset concealment case and handed him down a three-year prison sentence. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A police officer in plain clothes, detains a supporter, after he along with others, gathered for a protest following the arrest of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Karachi, Pakistan on August 5, 2023. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Police detain a supporter of former prime minister and head of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), after he was arrested following court orders that sentenced him to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 05 August 2023. Imran Khan has been arrested by Punjab police after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of 'corrupt practices' in the Toshakhana case, PTI's general secretary Omar Ayub confirmed. The court sentenced him to three years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs100,000 for concealing details of Toshakhana gifts. Imran's lawyers were not present during the trial. The court order stated that Imran had committed offenses of corrupt practices by making false statements and declarations about assets acquired from Toshakhana. Imran's arrest comes three months after his previous arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case, which led to widespread violence and a crackdown against his party. (Photo by Arshad Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Police officers stand guard on the watch towers of district prison Attock, where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in-prison after his conviction, in Attock, Pakistan, Sunday, August 6, 2023. Khan was arrested Saturday after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





Pakistani men reads a local newspaper carrying headline news of the Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, August 6, 2023. Khan was arrested Saturday after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





A Pakistani vendor sells decorative masks and items with colors of the national flag at a market as the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, in Karachi , Pakistan, 07 August 2023. Pakistan celebrates its 76th independence anniversary from British rule in 1947, on 14 August 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A woman speaks with a customer while selling national flags, ahead of Pakistan's Independence Day, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan on August 10, 2023. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man walks past Pakistan's national flags ahead of the country's 76th Independence Day, in Lahore on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A vendor sells Guy Fawkes masks and items with the colors of the national flag at a market ahead of Independence Day celebrations in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 August 2023. Pakistan celebrates its 76th independence anniversary from British rule in 1947 on 14 August 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A man stands in front of a Pakistani national flag at a market where vendors are selling decorative masks and items with the colors of the national flag ahead of Independence Day celebrations in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 August 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A girl has a national flag painted on her face ahead of Independence Day celebrations in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 August 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A vendor holds balloons of National flag color with letters reading “happy Independence Day” at a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Millions of Pakistanis celebrate the 76th Independence Day from British rule. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





People gather to watch fireworks during the Pakistan Independence Day celebrations, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, August 14, 2023. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Afghan nationals carry placards as shout slogans during a demonstration against the Taliban government in Islamabad on August 15, 2023, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government marked on August 15 the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





A vendor selling dolls waits for customers along a roadside in Peshawar on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)