Events In Pictures (Sub Continent)

A donkey transports supplies for polling stations in villages unreachable by vehicles in the Panjshir province, north of Kabul. Indian labourers and their children rest at the construction site of a hockey-training stadium. An elephant crosses a railway track, which runs through the Mahananda Wildlife sanctuary in west Bengal. Newly trained female officers of the Afghan National Army take front seats at a training center in Kabul as a new batch of officers attend their graduation ceremony. Afghan women line up to cast their vote outside a polling station in Kabul . A Bangladeshi artist works on a clay idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga during preparation for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja in Old Dhaka. Riot policemen block a street leading to the US embassy as activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) march during an anti-US protest rally in Islamabad following the sentencing of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for trying to shoot US officers. A sadhu, or Hindu holy man, prays after a dip in the River Ganges in Allahabad , India . Passengers of Pakistan International Airlines PIA Flight 872, exit upon arrival in Karachi . A Sri Lankan child waits for customers for his sugar cane to feed elephants at the elephant sanctuary in Udawalawe. A boy runs with a kite on his back in Kabul . A butcher boy sleeps in his closed shop in Dhaka . Baban, six, displaced by flooding drinks tea outside his family tent while taking refuge with his family at a relief camp for flood victims in Sukkur.