A health worker (R) administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination door-to-door campaign at a low-income residential area in Islamabad on September 21, 2020. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





A student wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus looks out from her classroom at a primary school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. Pakistani students head back to primary schools following their reopening, amid a steady decline in coronavirus deaths and infections. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





A worker checks body temperature of students upon her arrival at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Pakistani officials welcomed millions of students back to middle schools following educational institutions reopened in the country amid a steady decline in coronavirus deaths and infections. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





An elderly Pakistani man sleeps on a road side in Peshawar, Pakistan, 01 October 2020. The UN observes 01 October as an International Day for Old Persons with this year's theme being Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment. (Photo by Arshad Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Students attend a class during the first day of primary school, after the resumption of classes in Peshawar, Pakistan, 30 September 2020. The Pakistani government on 28 September reopened educational institutions to resume primary classes as part of a phased reopening of schools. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Students wearing facemasks attend a class at a school in Karachi on September 15, 2020 after the educational institutes were reopened nearly six months after the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





A man stands next to a horsecart laden with oil drums on a street in Lahore on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Pakistani women belonging to rural areas wear face masks as new cases of covid19 were reported, on the eve of International Day for Rural Women in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 14 October 2020. Countries around the world are taking increased measures to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Nadeem Khawar/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Video journalists film an armored vehicle carrying Abid Malhi, a key assailant suspected in the gang rape of a woman on a desolate highway, following his court appearance in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Police arrested a key suspect in a brutal rape of a woman whose car broke down on a deserted highway major highway near the eastern city of Lahore last month. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A worker grabs a poster of opposition party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) to hang it on a street in Lahore on October 15, 2020, as part of preparations ahead of an opposition rally. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A health official (L) collects a swab sample from a student to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a government school in Lahore on October 1, 2020, after the educational institutes reopened nearly six months after the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Activists of the Pakistani Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) shout slogans in support of Pakistan Opposition Leader and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif during a protest rally in Lahore on October 3, 2020, after the court rejected Sharif's bail plea in a money laundering and assets beyond income case on September 28. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Pakistani students from different institution performing tribute to their teachers at Al Hamra Arts Council organised by Lahore arts council on the eve of World Teachers Day, which is celebrating annually on 05 October in Lahore. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Thousands of government employees stage a sit-in protest in front of the parliament building demanding job regularization, increases in their salaries and other benefits, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, October 6, 2020. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





Devotees perform at the Data Darbar Shrine on the second day of a three-day annual Sufi religious festival called “Urs” in Lahore on October 7, 2020. The Data Darbar complex contains the shrine of Saint Syed Ali bin Osman Al-Hajvery, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A volunteer walks past a burnt passenger van following an overnight accident in the Nooriabad area on a highway some 50 kilometers from Pakistan's port city of Karachi late on September 26, 2020. At least 13 people were killed and several others injured when a passenger van overturned and caught fire on a highway, local media reported. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





Traders and buyers gather at a fruit market in Lahore on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Workers harvest persimmons at an orchard in Peshawar on October 12, 2020. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





Police officers stand guard near Indian High Commission, while members of the Pakistani Hindu community stage a join a sit-in protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, September 24, 2020. Pakistan's minority Hindus rallied late on Thursday in Islamabad to protest the deaths of 11 members of a Hindu migrant family who died in India last month under mysterious circumstances. The protesters accuse India's secret service of poisoning the victims, who were found dead at a farmhouse in India's Jodhpur district in Rajasthan state. (Photo by A.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Shiite Muslims take part in a religious procession to mark the 40th day of mourning after the death anniversary of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, in Lahore on October 8, 2020. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)