Snapshots of the Fortnight (October 24 - November 8)

A little girl with a cricket bat walks past a guard of Malik Ishaq, the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), as he holds an AK-47 assault rifle while guarding Ishaq's home in Rahim Yar Khan in the southern Punjab province of Pakistan on October 9, 2012. With a few hundred hardcore cadres, the highly secretive Sunni Muslim extremist group LeJ aims to trigger tit-for-tat sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in US-allied Pakistan, say Pakistan police and intelligence officials