The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has reported 16 deaths during the last two days, increasing toll to 831 in the last two months.
Floods, caused by torrential rains and excessive water discharge from India, have wreaked havoc, leaving thousands of abandoned and displaced people while causing serious damage to property, infrastructure and ready crops.
Three cross -border rivers that cross Punjab, which limits with India, have swollen at exceptionally high levels, affecting more than 2,300 villages.
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According to NDMA, the most affected provinces are Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with 480 deaths, while Punjab reported 191 deaths. Sindh registered 58 deaths, Baluchistan 24, and Gilgit-Baltistan 41. Azad Kachemira has reported 29 deaths, while Islamabad reported eight deaths. The children have taken the worst part of the disaster, with 219 minors among the deceased. Floods have also claimed the lives of 128 women and 484 men.
The impact on the country’s infrastructure has been devastating, with 238 washed bridges and 661 kilometers of submerged road networks. Floods have also destroyed 9,000 houses and have led to the loss of more than 6,000 animals.
More than 35,000 people have been displaced due to floods, many of which now live in relief fields. KP has the largest number of individuals displaced at 26,000, followed by 6,000 in Punjab and 3,000 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
In response to the crisis, 1,880 rescue operations have been carried out, rescuing more than 500,000 people. Of these, 485,000 were rescued in Punjab, while 14,000 were transferred to safe and superior locations in KP. Emergency relief efforts continue as authorities strive to help affected communities and mitigate the current disaster.
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Heavy rains have devastated most Pakistan’s parts with a heavier needifier prognosis in the next few days. On Friday, the floods reached the outskirts of Lahore and threatened to immerse Jhang in what is called the worst flood in almost 40 years in that region.
“The ongoing rescue operation is the greatest in the history of Punjab,” said Irfan Ali Khan, head of the Provincial Disaster Agency, while speaking at a press conference.
He revealed that more than 800 ships and 1,300 rescue personnel have been deployed to evacuate people, mainly from rural areas along the banks of the three rivers.
The houses are partially submerged on the banks of the Ravi River flooded in Lahore on August 28, 2025. Photo: Reuters
The disaster follows a tragic sequence of calamities in mid -August, when torrential rains triggered mortal landslides in KP, killing more than 400 people in a matter of days. The province, located near Afghanistan, faced additional challenges for aid operations for several reasons.
In 2022, Pakistan suffered the worst floods of its history, immersing in the third place in the country, being Sindh the most affected. This year’s floods further underline the growing vulnerability of the nation to the increasingly severe impacts of climate change, with devastating consequences for both lives and livelihoods.
