A lockdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has destroyed most of this year’s honey crop in Pakistan while hitting beekeepers and traders with millions of dollars in losses.
Authorities in Pakistan and doctors in neighboring Afghanistan are preparing for a rise in coronavirus infections after the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which involved communal prayers, visits, and gatherings among families and communities.
Fewer worshippers than in previous years came to Faisal Mosque in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to pray on the Eid al-Fitr holiday on May 24. In Quetta, in Pakistan's province of Balochistan, the main holiday prayers took place outdoors.
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated tourism in an alpine valley of northwestern Pakistan that had barely recovered from years of Taliban control and the military operations that displaced the region’s entire population a decade ago.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the government to lift some of the remaining restrictions imposed on businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Markets across Pakistan are teeming after opening up for the first time in over a month as the country began to lift its lockdown despite a rise in the rate of coronavirus infections.
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