© Muhammed Muheisen, Dec. 27, 2011, Islamabad / Pakistan

Pakistanis remember Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, to mark the fourth anniversary of her assassination. A deeply polarizing figure, Ms. Bhutto spent 30 years navigating the turbulent and often violent world of Pakistani politics, becoming in 1988 the first woman to lead a modern-day Muslim country.

© Muhammed Muheisen, Dec. 14, 2011, Islamabad / Pakistan

A Pakistani girl, plays with a Santa Claus doll in an alley of a Christian neighborhood.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

© Muhammed Muheisen, 2011, Kabul / Afghanistan

A vendor pushes his balloon-laden bike through Kabul looking for customers on the Eid al-Adha religious holiday.

© Muhammed Muheisen, Oct. 22, 2011, Kabul / Afghanistan

An Afghan shoemaker sits inside his stall waiting for customers in Kabul.

© Muhammed Muheisen, Sep. 18, 2011, Pakistan

A Pakistani child displaced by floods sleeps in a hammock at a shanty, in Badin district near Hyderabad, Pakistan.