Overview

• Roughly 150 people remain unaccounted for in Buner district after flash floods and landslides swept through villages, and survival chances are deemed very slim.
• Nearly 2,000 rescue personnel and local volunteers have scoured remote areas for three days but face blocked roads, ongoing heavy rain and treacherous terrain.
• The season’s death toll has climbed to about 650 since late June, with 317 fatalities recorded in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa over just two days.
• Authorities have declared multiple districts disaster zones after torrents obliterated homes, shops, livestock and crops, leaving many communities destitute.
• Officials say this monsoon is 50–60% more intense than last year and forecast further intensification through August, heightening the risk of fresh floods and landslides.