Afghan family return to Afghanistan with the hopes that the security situation has improved at the Torkham border post between Pakistan and Afghanistan on August, 25, 2021. (Photos by Sarah Caron/The Washington Post)





On the Afghan side of the border with Pakistan, children try to hide in trucks to enter into Pakistan to sell various products to Pakistani traders in Landi Kotal, an adjacent town, on August 21, 2021. (Photos by Sarah Caron/The Washington Post)





Taliban fighters scold a girl who hid behind the wheels of a truck in an attempt to cross into Pakistan to sell various products at the Torkham border post on August 21, 2021. (Photos by Sarah Caron/The Washington Post)





Pakistani border officers catch men that were trying to enter illegally into Pakistan at the border with Afghanistan at the Torkham border post on August 21, 2021. (Photos by Sarah Caron/The Washington Post)





Pakistani paramedical personnel stand next to the covered bodies of suspect militants who were killed by security forces, at a morgue in Quetta, Pakistan, August 31, 2021. Pakistan's counter-terrorism units raided a hideout of the Islamic State group in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province before dawn on Tuesday, setting off a shootout that killed some 11 militants, the police said. (Photo by Arshad Butt/AP Photo)





A child peeps out from a ruptured area of a tent as other Afghan refugees talk among themselves at a temporary settlement on the outskirts of Quetta on September 6, 2021. (Photo by Banaras Khan/AFP Photo)





Commuters wade through a flooded street after a heavy rain shower in Lahore on September 10, 2021. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Children play at the demolished former compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan on September 11, 2021. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





People gather at the beach to beat the hot weather in Karachi, Pakistan, 14 September 2021. Pakistan's MET office issued a hot and humid weather forecast for Karachi till Sept 14, predicting that temperatures could rise up to 39 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Shahzib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A teacher sprays sanitzer (R) while a colleague checks the body temperature of a student in a queue as they arrive at a school in Lahore on September 16, 2021, after the government reopened educational institutes that were closed as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A zookeeper bathes an elephant inside its enclosure amid a spell of a heatwave in the Karachi Zoo in Karachi on September 15, 2021. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, September 20, 2021. The government launched polio vaccination drives across Pakistan in hopes to eradicate the crippling disease by the end of the year. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A motorcyclist and other vehicles drive with headlights during a heavy rainfall in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, September 20, 2021. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





Laborers load sacks of onion from Afghanistan, to supply at a local market, into a truck parked at the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan on September 21, 2021. (Photo by Abdul Khaliq Achakzai/Reuters)





A fruit vendor pushes his cart through a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in Lahore on September 21, 2021. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A man pushes his motorbike through a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in Karachi, largest city in Pakistan on September 23, 2021. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





Commuters cross a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in Karachi on September 23, 2021. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





People make their way during heavy rains in Karachi, Pakistan, 23 September 2021. Most of the Pakistani cities are experiencing prolonged ​monsoon season this year. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





Women jostle to get free milk at a distribution point during the celebrations of the three-day annual festival of famous saint Al-Sheikh Ali Bin Usman Al-Hajveri known as Data Ganjbaksh at his shrine, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, September 26, 2021. Thousands of people traveled from all over Pakistan to attend the celebrations. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Shiite Muslim devotees 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 September 28, 2021. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)