An Afghan woman wearing a traditional hat attends a ceremony marking Mother's Day in Kabul June 14, 2009. — Reuters /Ahmad Masood
Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform a routine as they lead a march to encourage blood donations in Colombo on June 14, 2009, held to mark World Blood Donation Day. Hundreds of activists took part in the march in a country where many volunteered to donate blood during heavy fighting between troops and Tamil Tigers that ended in May after nearly four-decades of ethnic bloodshed. AFP Photo/Ishara S. Kodikara
Hindu holy men, arrive to register for the Amarnath Yatra, the annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine, in Jammu, Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands pilgrims flock each year to the mountain shrine in Jammu and Kashmir which contains a large icicle revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Lord Shiva
Maoist activists shout anti-government slogans while disrupting traffic during a demonstration in Kathmandu June 14, 2009. The Maoists accused Nepal's Communist UML Party's Youth Force of killing a member of their Young Communist League. — Reuters/Shruti Shrestha
A soldier stands inside the kitchen of the house of cleric Sufi Mohammad after it was taken over by security forces during an operation in Maidan in Pakistan's Lower Dir district, during a trip organised by the army June 13, 2009. — Reuters/Mian Khursheed
A vegetable seller sits in front of a pile of vegetables at Kawranbazar, the city's largest vegetable market in Dhaka June 14, 2009. — Reuters/Andrew Biraj
A labourer takes a nap on sacks of ginger as other labourers work at a vegetable wholesale market in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri June 14, 2009. Although India is less dependent on exports than China or other East Asian countries, with exports accounting for about 15 per cent of GDP, the drop has offset some of the domestic gains. — Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Pakistani activists from Anjuman Talaba-i-Islam (ATI) shout anti-Taliban slogans during a protest rally in Karachi on June 14, 2009, against the killing of religious scholar Sarfraz Naeemi. Naeemi, who had spoken out against Taliban suicide bombings, was among those killed in one of the attacks at a mosque in Lahore. — AFP Photo/ Asif Hassan
People wait to get their eyes tested at a free eye-care camp set-up by a voluntary organisation in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri June 14, 2009. According to a World Health Organisation report, 90 per cent of the world's blind people live in developing countries with at least nine million of them in India, where they are often the victims of poverty and lack of access to quality eye care. — Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
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