People attend Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, outside a mosque, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan on March 21, 2025. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Pakistani vendors wait for customers as they prepare fried foods used to break the Ramadan fast at a stall on March 24, 2025 in Lahore, Pakistan. Ramadan is a sacred month in the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a period of fasting, spiritual reflection, and charitable giving. (Photo by Rebecca Conway/Getty Images)





Pakistani Muslims attend an Eid Al-Fitr prayer service, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, 31 March 2025. Muslims around the world have begun celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the three-day festival which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. During Eid al-Fitr, most people travel to visit each other in town or outside of it and children receive new clothes and money to spend for the occasion. (Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA/EFE)





Customers buy watermelons at a fruit market in Lahore on April 7, 2025. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Afghan refugees load belongings on a truck as they are sent back to Afghanistan, following their arrest by the police, in Chaman, Pakistan, 08 April 2025. Approximately 800,000 Afghan citizens in Pakistan face uncertainty as a mass deportation campaign began on 01 April, affecting not only undocumented individuals but also holders of Afghan Citizenship Cards (ACC), who previously lived legally in the country. (Photo by Akhtar Gulfam/EPA)





Afghan refugees embrace each other before leaving for Afghanistan at a bus stand in Karachi on April 8, 2025. The Taliban government condemned on April 8 the “violence” used by Pakistan in its new campaign to expel Afghans from the country, accusing Islamabad of using the migrants for “political goals”. Islamabad cancelled the residence permits of hundreds of thousands of Afghans in Pakistan, including many who were born or living for decades there, as part of a deportation programme. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





Afghan refugees due for deportation to Afghanistan arrive at a holding centre to undergo biometric verification by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on April 8, 2025. Thousands of Afghans have crossed the border from Pakistan in recent days, the United Nations and Taliban officials said, as Islamabad ramped up pressure for them to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan last month set an early April deadline for some 800,000 Afghans carrying Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) issued by Pakistan authorities to leave the country, another phase in Islamabad's campaign in recent years to repatriate Afghans. (Photo by Abdul Basit/AFP Photo)





An Afghan refugee man loads a truck with his belongings, as he along with others returns home, after Pakistan gave the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, in Jamrud, Pakistan on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





People look at a damaged police bus parked in a security compound following a bomb explosion in Mastung district on April 15, 2025. An explosion targeting a police bus in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province killed at least three officers and wounded 16 others on April 15, authorities said. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A farmer harvests wheat in a field on the outskirts of Lahore on April 15, 2025. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Sikh pilgrims take a holy dip at the Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hassan Abdal, Pakistan, 16 April 2025. The Sikh community celebrates the Baisakhi festival annually to mark the wheat harvest and the spring season. This year, the Pakistani High Commission issued more than 6,500 visas to Indian pilgrims to participate in the festival. (Photo by Sohail Shahzad/EPA)





Afghan refugees due for deportation to Afghanistan wait outside a registration centre in Landi Kotal, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on April 19, 2025. Nearly 85,000 Afghans have crossed into Afghanistan in just over two weeks, the majority of them undocumented. Islamabad has launched a strict campaign to evict by the end of April more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who were born in Pakistan or lived there for decades. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





A Pakistani security official stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child in Quetta, Pakistan, 21 April 2025. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launched Pakistan's second nationwide polio vaccination campaign, running from 21 to 27 April, aiming to vaccinate over 45 million children. The campaign follows six reported cases in 2025. Sharif urged parental support and stressed the government's commitment to protecting polio workers in sensitive areas. Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only countries where polio is endemic, with 74 cases reported in 2024, reflecting challenges from misinformation and militant attacks. (Photo by Fayyaz Ahmed/EPA/EFE)





Afghan refugees due for deportation to Afghanistan wait with their belongings outside a holding center near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on April 22, 2025. Pakistan has launched a strict campaign to evict by the end of the month more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who were born in Pakistan or lived there for decades. (Photo by Abdul Basit/AFP Photo)





A guard takes a nap beside a pedestal fan, in front of a closed shop, with the Arabic writing on the rolling shutter that translates to, 'This is from the grace of my Lord', during a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





People take a boat ride in the waters of Indus River near the Lansdowne Bridge in Sukkur, in the southern Sindh province on April 28, 2025. India, furious after a deadly attack, has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, with Islamabad warning any attempt to stop water flows would be considered an “act of war”. New Delhi suspended its part in the treaty after gunmen in Indian-run Kashmir targeting tourists killed 26 men on April 22. (Photo by Shahid Ali/AFP Photo)





A laborer hauls a sack of potatoes to load into a mini truck at a wholesale vegetable market, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





A man rests on the concrete divider of a road in Karachi on May 5, 2025. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





A supporter of political party Markazi Muslim League shares sweets with people after Pakistan shot down Indian fighter jets in retaliation of Indian missile strikes, in Karachi, Pakistan, 07 May 2025. The Pakistan Armed Forces shot down five Indian fighter jets, the Pakistani Government said on “X” social media platform, in retaliation of earlier Indian military strikes on nine sites in Pakistan conducted following a deadly militant attack on tourists in India-administered Kashmir. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)