A tribal archer lets fly his arrow at a target during a regional competition in Peshawar May 16. For the first time, archery was included as an event in the Peshawar Frontier Region Spring Sports Festival. [M. Ibrahim]

Horse dealer Kolymbai offers a horse for 100,000 KGS (US $2,100) at a farmers’ market in Sokolyp District, Chui Oblast, Kyrgyzstan, May 13. [Maksat Osmonaliyev]

An Afghan boy buys a frozen treat from a Kabul street vendor May 7. [Sulyman Qardash]

An artist paints a truck near the Ring Road Chowk, Peshawar, May 8. Trucks from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas are brought here to be decorated with colourful designs. [Ashfaq Yusufzai]

Soldiers parade past an honour guard May 9 in Dushanbe’s Memorial Park as part of Victory Day commemorations for all who fought in World War II. [Nazim Kalandarov]

Bishkek traffic policewomen May 4 march through Bishkek rehearsing for the May 8 event “A fair police working for the people.” [Maksat Osmonaliyev]

A Tajik soldier repaints the IS-2 tank “Joseph Stalin,” which the Red Army used on the Byelorussian front during World War II, in Dushanbe May 3. The country is preparing to celebrate Victory Day, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany, May 9. [Nazim Kalandarov]

Mikhail Tomilov, 77, who has drawn editorial cartoons since the 1950s and is Kyrgyzstan’s oldest cartoonist, looks at work his colleagues entered in a nation-wide editorial cartoon contest, Freedom of Speech without Words, May 3 in Bishkek. The competition was part of observances marking World Press Freedom Day. Tomilov took third place. [Ulan Nazarov]

Members of the Khyber Union of Journalists (KUJ), government officials and civil society members march in a torch-bearing procession in Peshawar May 2 to celebrate World Press Freedom Day (May 3). The KUJ organised the march. [Ashfaq Yusufzai]

A handler walks a racehorse, Ugana, around a Bishkek track before the May 1 “Spring Thicket” race. The 1.6km race carried a US $10,000 (468,000 KGS) purse that went to charity. Ugana finished third. [Asker Sultanov]