Smoke rises from the smoke stacks of brick factories on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan June 8, 2017. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





A Pakistani performer makes a bear dance for bystanders in a street in Rawalpindi on January 15, 2017. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





A Pakistani Army soldier distributes food bags from a helicopter in flooded areas in Shujabad, on the outskirts of Multan, Pakistan,15 September 2014. Pakistani troops and rescue workers on 15 September raced to evacuate thousands of people as swollen rivers headed towards the southern province of Sindh. Mudslides and flooding killed more than 280 in the central province of Punjab and parts of disputed Kashmir region, the National Disaster Management Authority said. (Photo by Omer Saleem/EPA)





A Pakistani girl collects sea shells on the beach in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, 17 May 2016. The muscle inside the sea shell is used as food in different countries and the hollow shell is used for decoration, binding material and has also been introduced in many different types of art and craft. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA)





People empty their flooded homes after heavy downpour in Karachi, Pakistan, 31 August 2017. At least 11 people were killed in rain related incidents in Karachi in last 24 hours, mostly due to electrocution in last 24 hours, reports said. (Photo by Rehan Khan/EPA/EFE)





A fisherman unloads baskets of fish from a boat after he returned from a day catch, along China Creek area of Karachi, Pakistan, July 3, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Vendors wait for customers as they sale sacrificial animals ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in Quetta, Pakistan, 28 August 2017. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (Photo by Jamal Taraqai/EPA/EFE)





A truck driver offers afternoon prayers near his supply truck, after the opening of Pakistan Afghan Torkham border, in Landi Kotal, Pakistan March 21, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A Pakistani resident helps a heatstroke victim at a market area during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. The death toll from a heatwave in southern Pakistan on June 23 passed 450 as medics battled to treat victims after imposing a state of emergency in hospitals, health officials said. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





A female police officer moves a resident of an illegal settlement before demolishing her house on the outskirts of Islamabad July 30, 2015. According to local media, clashes broke out in Islamabad between authorities and residents of a slum on Thursday as authorities started bulldozing illegal settlements in the area. (Photo by Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)





Young environmental photographer of the year: Syed Umer Hasan for “Karachi Wildlife”. As one of the world’s fastest growing cities, Karachi is facing a crisis with stray dogs. Hundreds of them are being poisoned, spurring animal rights activists to condemn the killings. At the same time, thousands of people in the city are suffering from dog bites. (Photo by Syed Umer Hasan/2017 Ciwem environmental photographer of the year)





Afghan refugee children play with tyres in Islamabad, Pakistan October 6, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





Gulaban, 25, mother of three, climbs into a 60-tonne truck, during a training session of the Female Dump Truck Driver Programme, held by the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC), in Islamkot, Tharparkar, Pakistan September 21, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Sheep are seen peeping outside a window of a van while being transported at a livestock market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Peshawar, Pakistan September 1, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A man controls a bull before a sacrifice slaughter during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Karachi, Pakistan, September 2, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Workers sort bottles to throw them in a plastic bottle chipper at a recycling workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan September 12, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





A man looks at kebabs cooking on the street side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan October 2, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





A man is silhouetted as he climbs a boat under construction at a yard in Fish Harbour in Karachi, Pakistan, October 3, 2017. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A man carries a claypot, used for plants, to place it with others inside an oven at a makeshift factory in Peshawar, Pakistan October 5, 2017. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Women riding in a van react to something happening outside the van in Rawalpindi, Pakistan October 5, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





A boy stands beside his family home in an Afghan refugee camp in Islamabad, Pakistan October 31, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





A boy plays with a tyre on an a street in an Afghan refugee camp in Islamabad, Pakistan on October 31, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)





Pakistani vendors sell apples on a roadside stall in Killa Abdullah, a district in the north west of Balochistan province on August 29, 2017. Pakistan has postponed a visit by a US diplomat who had been due to arrive on September 4, a week after President Donald Trump publicly upbraided Islamabad for harbouring militants attacking US and Afghan troops. (Photo by Banaras Khan/AFP Photo)