Floods Archives

Hajira Bibi and her newborn daughter inside a tent near her flooded home in Jindi village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Flood-born: Nothing but mud as mother, infant return to Pakistan home

Swaddled tightly under the shelter of a donated tent, a newborn baby lays still amid the disorder all around. Her mother, Hajira Bibi, flits...

AFPSeptember 2, 2022

Volunteers from the Al-Khidmat Foundation are using boats to reach isolated villages in the vasted flooded plains of Sindh

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Villagers brave snakes and hunger to protect land in flooded Pakistan

The southern Pakistan village of Karim Bakhsh is almost entirely under muddy water after catastrophic monsoon rains — hardly any stable buildings are left...

AFPSeptember 1, 2022

A vehicle bridge across the Swat River was destroyed by a flash flood, and now the only way across is by a rickety makeshift footbridge.

World

‘Heavenly’ Pakistan mountain town becomes site of ruin

Bahrain is a town in ruins –- reduced to rubble by the incredible force of flash floods that swelled the river running through it,...

AFPAugust 31, 2022

The tens of millions of people hit by record floods in Pakistan are facing major health hazards including outbreaks of potentially deadly diseases, the WHO has warned

World

‘Burning with pain’: Pakistan floods threaten major health crisis

At a charity clinic in a southern Pakistani village, dozens of people affected by relentless rains and floods crowd around the door waiting to...

AFPAugust 31, 2022

Local tourists disembark from a Pakistani army helicopter after they were rescued from flood-hit tourist areas in the north

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Lives swept away: rescued tourists recount Pakistan flood horror

It was midnight when Yasmin and her family were ordered to urgently evacuate their room at the Honeymoon Hotel.

AFPAugust 31, 2022

A Pakistani family leaves an army rescue helicopter in Swat after being rescued from a cut off valley

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‘Second life’: helicopters rescue the stranded from Pakistan valleys

Up to 200,000 people are stranded in remote Pakistan valleys after the unrelenting floods of the past week — with helicopters the only way...

AFPAugust 30, 2022

Catastrophic monsoon floods in Pakistan have sent the prices of stapes, such as onions, skyrocketing

World

Pakistan floods fuel ‘back-breaking’ food inflation

Catastrophic monsoon floods in Pakistan have sent food prices skyrocketing.

AFPAugust 30, 2022

Pakistan is battling relentless monsoon flooding that has impacted more than 33 million people

World

‘Third’ of Pakistan under water as flood aid efforts gather pace

Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged...

AFPAugust 30, 2022