ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s death toll from rain-related incidents since June 26 have increased to 126, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said in its latest situation report this week, as the country braces for heavy rains till August 4 that it fears can trigger flash floods.
Heavy rains have lashed Pakistan, especially its Punjab and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces since June 26, killing 47 and 55 people, respectively.
The latest deaths in the past 24 hours were reported from the southern Sindh province and Punjab. Three people were killed in Sindh’s Tharparkar area while one person died due to a rain-related incident in Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, 16 people were injured in Sindh, KP and Punjab in the past 24 hours.
“Under the influence of an approaching, well marked low pressure system, currently lying over southeast Rajasthan (India), with strong supporting monsoon currents, a strong wet spell in which heavy to very heavy falls are expected over Punjab, central and eastern parts of Sindh and eastern Balochistan uptill August 4,” the NDMA’s latest flood bulletin report read on Saturday.
It warned that flash floods are expected in the hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan, the streams of KP and northern Balochistan. It said urban flooding is also expected in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Jhelum, Mandi Bahauddin, Sialot, Lahore, Narowal, Sahiwal, Okara and Faisalabad in Punjab.
It warned of urban floods and waterlogging in Badin, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Khairpur, Matiari, Mipurkhas, Sanghar, Thatta, Umerkot, Tharparkar and Tando Muhammad Khan in Sindh during this period.
Pakistan is considered among the most vulnerable to climate change effects and has experienced increasingly erratic weather in recent years. These weather patterns include frequent heatwaves, droughts and extreme monsoon rainfall.
In 2025, above-average monsoon rains and flooding killed more than 1,000 people and caused widespread damage to homes, roads, agricultural land and public infrastructure, with Punjab among the hardest-hit provinces.
In 2022, record monsoon rains and glacial melt triggered catastrophic floods that killed more than 1,700 people, affected over 33 million people and caused an estimated $30 billion in economic losses, making it one of Pakistan’s worst natural disasters.
