A supporter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party, chants slogans while being detained by police officers during a nationwide protest demanding Khan's release on the second anniversary of his arrest, in Lahore, Pakistan on August 5, 2025. (Photo by Mohsin Raza/Reuters)





A scavenger collects recyclable items including plastic from a dump site in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, August 7, 2025. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A spiritual path devotee locally called 'Malang' performs traditional Sufi trance dance called 'Dhamaal' during celebrations of the three-day annual festival or 'Urs' of mystic and scholar, Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh at his shrine, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, August 13, 2025. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





People watch a firework displayed in front of the National Stadium during Pakistan's 78th anniversary of Independence Day celebrations in Karachi on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





Internally displaced people, who fled their homes after security forces launched a targeted operation against militants, stand at a camp set up in a sports complex at Khar, in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Thursday, August 14, 2025. (Photo by Qyass Khan/AP Photo)





Students wave Pakistan's national flags during Independence Day celebrations at the mausoleum of the country's founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





People attend funeral prayers of the victims of a cloudburst incident, sudden intense downpours, in Naryan Behak village near Muzaffarabad, the main town of Pakistan's controlled Kashmir, Friday, August 15, 2025. (Photo by M.D. Mughal/AP Photo)





People attend funeral prayers of the victims of cloudburst incident, in Salarzai, Pakistan, Friday, August 15, 2025. (Photo by Anwarullah Khan/AP Photo)





Devotees eat food during celebrations of the three-day annual festival or 'Urs' of mystic and scholar, Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh at his shrine, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, August 15, 2025. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lieutenant General Inam Haider (C), attends a media briefing on the ongoing monsoon-related climate disaster in Islamabad on August 17, 2025. More than 150 people are missing in northwest Pakistan, the head of the provincial disaster authority said on August 17, after flash floods that have killed at least 344 people in the country. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





Gul Rasheed, 60, inspects a damaged car following a storm that caused heavy rains and flooding, in Bayshonai Kalay, Buner district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man takes his camel for a walk as people cool off in the Arabian Sea on a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan, 17 August 2025. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA)





A boy cools off under a waterfall on the outskirts of Sowari, in Buner District, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





People wade through floodwater after heavy monsoon rains affected residencial areas in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 22 August 2025. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), since the beginning of the monsoon season on 26 June the death toll from rains and flooding in Pakistan has reached at least 748 casualties, with 978 people injured. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA)





Rescue workers of the Edhi Foundation assist people affected by the floods following heavy monsoon rains in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 22 August 2025. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), since the beginning of the monsoon season on 26 June the death toll from rains and flooding in Pakistan has reached at least 748 casualties, with 978 people injured. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA)





An Afghan man loads his belongings onto a truck as he prepares to leave, after Pakistan started to deport documented Afghan refugees, outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) repatriation centre in Nowshera, Pakistan, on August 27, 2025. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Residents wade through a flooded area of Kartarpur, a town in Punjab province, on August 28, 2025. Pakistan authorities blew up an embankment next to a monsoon-engorged dam on August 27 as flooding submerged one of the world's holiest Sikh sites. Three transboundary rivers in the east of the country have swollen to exceptionally high levels as a result of heavy rains across the border in India. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Residents wade through a flooded area of Kartarpur, a town in Punjab province, on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A milkman crosses through floodwater at Chak Ali Sher village in Wazirabad district on August 28, 2025, after government issued a flood alert for riverside areas of Punjab province. Water has gushed into the eastern province, Pakistan's breadbasket and home to about half of its 255 million people, with three transboundary rivers swelling beyond their banks. The latest monsoon downpour has killed at least 13 people, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





Shopkeepers sit inside their store, amid a flooded road during heavy rain in Lahore on August 30, 2025. Monsoon rains this week swelled three transboundary rivers that cut through Pakistan's eastern province, the nation's agricultural heartland and home to nearly half of its 255 million people. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)