Overview

• Seasonal rains over a 48-hour period caused hundreds of additional deaths in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, lifting the monsoon toll above 600.
• Thousands of rescue personnel are working to recover victims and aid survivors in mountain districts like Buner despite blocked roads and landslides.
• NDMA officials say Pakistan has sufficient resources for the crisis and have declined offers of foreign assistance.
• Pakistan’s meteorological service forecasts further very heavy rains and intensifying monsoon currents that could trigger new flash floods and river overflows.
• Experts link roughly 50 percent more rainfall this season to climate change and warn that fragile infrastructure in remote areas has amplified the catastrophe.