A supporter of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan chants slogans as police detain him during a nationwide protest demanding Khan’s release in Lahore on August 5, 2025. The protest marked the second anniversary of Khan’s arrest.(Photo by Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
A scavenger collects recyclable plastic at a dump site in Lahore, Pakistan, on August 7, 2025. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)
A Sufi devotee, known as a ‘Malang,’ performs the traditional trance dance ‘Dhamaal’ during the annual ‘Urs’ festival at the shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, Pakistan, on August 13, 2025.(Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)
Crowds watch fireworks in front of the National Stadium during Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day celebrations in Karachi on August 14, 2025.(Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)
Internally displaced people stand at a camp in Khar, Bajaur district, on August 14, 2025. They fled their homes following a security forces’ operation against militants.(Photo by Qyass Khan/AP Photo)
Students wave Pakistani flags during Independence Day celebrations at the mausoleum of founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi on August 14, 2025.(Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)
Mourners attend funeral prayers for victims of a cloudburst, a sudden intense downpour, in Naryan Behak village near Muzaffarabad, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, on August 15, 2025.(Photo by M.D. Mughal/AP Photo)
People attend funeral prayers for victims of a cloudburst in Salarzai, Pakistan, on August 15, 2025.(Photo by Anwarullah Khan/AP Photo)
Devotees eat food during the annual ‘Urs’ festival at the shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, Pakistan, on August 15, 2025.(Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)
Chairman of Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lieutenant General Inam Haider (center), briefs the media on the ongoing monsoon disaster in Islamabad on August 17, 2025. Flash floods had killed at least 344 people, with over 150 reported missing in the northwest.(Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)
Gul Rasheed, 60, inspects his damaged car after a storm caused heavy rains and flooding in Bayshonai Kalay, Buner district, on August 17, 2025.(Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
A man walks his camel as people cool off in the Arabian Sea on a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 17, 2025.(Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA)
A boy cools off under a waterfall on the outskirts of Sowari, in Buner District, Pakistan, on August 20, 2025.(Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
Residents wade through floodwater in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on August 22, 2025. According to the NDMA, the monsoon season had resulted in at least 748 deaths and 978 injuries since late June.(Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA)
Edhi Foundation rescue workers assist people affected by flooding in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on August 22, 2025.(Photo by Nadeem Khawer/EPA)
An Afghan man loads his belongings onto a truck outside a UNHCR repatriation center in Nowshera, Pakistan, on August 27, 2025, as Pakistan began deporting documented Afghan refugees.(Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
Residents wade through a flooded Kartarpur, a town in Punjab province, on August 28, 2025. The flooding submerged one of Sikhism’s holiest sites after authorities breached an embankment to relieve pressure on a dam.(Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)
Residents wade through a flooded street in Kartarpur, Pakistan, on August 28, 2025.(Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)
A milkman crosses floodwater in Chak Ali Sher village, Wazirabad district, on August 28, 2025, after the government issued a flood alert for riverside areas. The latest monsoon downpours had killed at least 13 people.(Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)
Shopkeepers sit inside their flooded store during heavy rain in Lahore on August 30, 2025. Monsoon rains swelled transboundary rivers, affecting Pakistan’s agricultural heartland.(Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)
