Bollywood Hangama Wallpapers

A woman applies henna to a young girl’s hand at a Peshawar school fair March 3. [Zahir Shah]

A highway worker directs a truck through the Chykan Gorge in Dzhalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan, March 9. An avalanche – called a “White Dragon” by local residents – shut down the road for three to four hours until crews were able to open a single lane to traffic. There were no fatalities or other damage. [Maksat Osmonaliyev]

A garland maker decorates a flower basket in Peshawar Cantonment’s Fowara Chowk Market March 1. The colourful baskets are used to hold flowers or dried fruit for wedding guests, especially during the Rasm-i-Hina, when women in the wedding party paint their hands with henna. [Zahir Shah]

Frontier College Peshawar students participate in a tug-of-war on International Women’s Day, March 8. [Courtesy of Peshawar Sports Journalists Forum]

Ravshanbek (right) decides to purchase a bouquet of tulips in Bishkek for his mother-in-law March 7, a day before International Women's Day. [Maksat Osmonaliyev]

A Pakistani man browses at a roadside book stall February 12 near the Anarkali Bazaar in Lahore. Roadside stalls offer used books and magazines for relatively low prices. [M. Ibrahim]

Elite National Guard troops raise the Kyrgyz flag in Bishkek's Ala-Too Square March 3 to celebrate the flag’s 20th anniversary. Red symbolises courage, while the 40 rays of the sun, seen through the crossed roof supports of a yurt, represent the 40 Kyrgyz tribes united into one nation. [Asker Sultanov]

Figure skaters carry the Kyrgyz national flag onto the ice during the opening ceremony of the Bishkek municipal skating championship February 29. [Dmitri Motinov]

A young boy flies a kite near the Peshawar Ring Road February 28. Children are preparing for the Basant kite-flying festival, which begins later in March, and marks the arrival of spring. [Zahir Shah]