ISLAMABAD: Floodwaters driven by relentless monsoon rains and releases from upstream dams in India have killed at least 30 people and affected more than 1.5 million others in Pakistan’s Punjab province this week, submerging over 2,300 villages and prompting the largest evacuation effort in the region’s recent history, officials said Saturday.
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Pakistan blasts embankments to save millions as India’s dam releases worsen historic flood crisis
ISLAMABAD: Desperate to save millions from raging floodwaters, authorities have blasted embankments to divert rivers from Jhang and Multan, evacuating over 429,000 people as India’s dam releases worsen a disaster intensified by New Delhi’s earlier suspension of a critical water-sharing treaty.
Pakistan battles catastrophic floods as India’s treaty halt, barrage failure swell rivers to 40-year highs
LAHORE: As floodwaters crept toward Lahore’s fringes on Friday, Pakistani officials pointed fingers across the border, blaming India for amplifying a catastrophic deluge through its suspension of a critical river-sharing treaty and the failure of gates on a key barrage that unleashed uncontrolled torrents downstream.
Punjab battles worst floods in 40 years, with downstream peril looming in Sindh
ISLAMABAD: With the Chenab River poised to unleash up to 800,000 cubic feet per second of water in the next two days, Pakistani officials in Punjab have evacuated more than a quarter-million people from flood-stricken areas, where monsoon rains and releases from Indian dams have already devastated farmland, drowned 17 residents, and impacted 1.46 million in the province’s deadliest inundation in decades.
Floods in Punjab kill at least 15, displace hundreds of thousands as rivers rage and dam breach looms
ISLAMABAD: Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains and releases from Indian dams swept through Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, submerging hundreds of villages and displacing or affecting more than 600,000 residents, as authorities scrambled to evacuate thousands more amid fears of a catastrophic dam breach.
Punjab battles historic floods after India releases dam waters, hundreds of thousands displaced
LAHORE: Pakistan mounted a frantic response on Wednesday to confront a swelling flood emergency in its populous Punjab province after India released excess water from dams in the disputed Kashmir region, exacerbating weeks of punishing monsoon rains that have already claimed hundreds of lives and submerged vast swaths of farmland across the nuclear-armed neighbors.
‘Exceptionally high’ flood threat in Punjab as rivers swell from monsoon rains and Indian dam releases
ISLAMABAD: Lahore and other parts of Punjab province braced on Wednesday for what officials called a “very high to exceptionally high” flood threat, as heavy monsoon rains and the release of water from two Indian dams swelled rivers and prompted authorities to seek army assistance in six districts.
Nearly 150,000 evacuated in Punjab as monsoon floods push death toll past 800
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has evacuated nearly 150,000 people from flood-prone areas in Punjab province as heavy monsoon rains and glacier melt intensify, pushing
Punjab races to evacuate thousands as monsoon rains swell rivers
LAHORE: Punjab is racing against time to evacuate thousands from flood-prone areas as monsoon rains swell the region’s eastern rivers to dangerous levels, while in the rugged north of Gilgit-Baltistan, communities devastated by earlier glacial and flash floods remain cut off, grappling with shortages of food, water, and shelter.
Pakistan tables seven-point Gaza peace plan at OIC summit
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday laid out a seven-point plan at an urgent meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), calling on Muslim nations to move beyond “statements of sympathy” and adopt “concrete measures” to end Israel’s war in Gaza and pave the way for lasting peace in Palestine.