Overview

• Punjab’s PDMA reports normal flows on the Indus, Jhelum, Ravi and Chenab, with only localized low to medium flooding and the Sutlej easing from moderate to low levels in places as the Empress Bridge gauge fell from 13.6 to 10.2 feet.
• Sindh officials report very high discharges at key Indus barrages, including roughly 570,000 cusecs at Guddu, 571,800 at Sukkur and about 301,000 at Kotri, with pressures on riverine areas expected to remain elevated into the next day.
• Pakistan’s National Emergency Operation Centre cautions that new rainfall could lift river flows within 48 hours and trigger dangerous hill‑torrent surges, urging the public to avoid inundated routes and heed official alerts.
• The UN says more than six million people have been affected, nearly 1,000 have died including about 250 children, and around 2.5 million were evacuated, with officials praising the scale of lifesaving relocations.
• NDMA tallies show over 8,400 houses, 239 bridges and nearly 700 km of roads damaged or destroyed, with more than 2.2 million hectares of cropland under water as authorities continue relief and beneficiary data collection.