A child walks out from inside a gate of a house damaged by an earthquake in Bermal district, Paktika province, on June 23, 2022. Desperate rescuers battled against the clock and heavy rain on June 23 to reach cut-off areas in eastern Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





Ahmad Vali poses for a picture inside his house that was damaged by an earthquake in Gayan, Afghanistan, June 23, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





People stand near a house damaged in an earthquake in Paktika province, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2022. The Taliban-run administration in Afghanistan has called for international assistance amid ongoing rescue operations following the devastating earthquake Wednesday in the eastern area of the Asian country. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)





Afghan girl carries a donated matrace after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday, June 24, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Nooroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan children play in the backdrop of houses damaged after an earthquake in Gayan district, Paktika province, on June 24, 2022. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east along the border with Pakistan, killing more than 1,000 and leaving thousands homeless. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Afghan child stands in front of a makeshift shelter after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday June 24, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (Photo by Ebrahim Nooroozi/AP Photo)





Afghans receive aid at a camp after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Nooroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan boy sits in a courtyard of her destroyed home after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (Photo by Ebrahim Nooroozi/AP Photo)





Barakatullah poses for a picture in front of his house that was damaged by an earthquake in Spolgin village, Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





An Afghan boy plays with hand made RPG toy in the quake-hit area in the Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





A health worker marks a child's finger with ink after giving polio vaccine at a campaign in Kandahar on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP Photo)





In this picture taken on June 26, 2022, volunteers carry aid being received from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for recent earthquake affected people in the Afghan-Dubai village of Spera district in Khost province. In Afghan-Dubai – named at a time when the pine nut trade flourished in the coniferous mountainous region – the distribution of aid is strictly supervised by armed Afghan Taliban. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





Children show their fingers marked with ink after having polio vaccine at a campaign in Kandahar on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP Photo)





A Taliban fighter searches the belongings of a pedestrian along a blocked street ahead of the council meeting of tribal and religious leaders in Kabul on June 29, 2022. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Inmates leave after being released from prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 05 July 2022. To honor the Muslim festivity of Eid al-Adha, the Taliban supreme commander Mullah Haibatullah ordered the release of around 400 prisoners who were sentenced for less than a year in jail for petty crimes. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Taliban fighters greet each other outside the Shah-e Doh Shamshira Mosque, on the first day of Eid al-Adha, in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 9, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Sheep stand in a herd at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





In this picture taken on July 13, 2022, children play at the site where the Shahmama Buddha statue once stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





People carry drinking water in containers as they walk along a hillside near the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)