Overview

• Provincial authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan have issued glacial flood alerts after receiving above-average monsoon rainfall in late July.
• Rescue teams evacuated more than 500 tourists from Naran and helicopters freed holidaymakers stranded at Fairy Meadows following cloudburst-triggered road closures.
• Heavy machinery has been deployed to clear debris on the Babusar Highway, where search operations continue for villagers missing after flash floods struck nine communities.
• Gilgit-Baltistan officials have distributed hundreds of tents, thousands of food packets and medicine to residents displaced by floods and landslides.
• Climate scientists say Pakistan’s weather has entered a volatile “new normal” of erratic monsoons, heatwaves and dry winters that have already disrupted planting and harvest cycles.