Flood

Pakistan has seen many floods, the worst and most destructive is the recent 2010 Pakistan floods, other floods which caused destruction in the history of Pakistan. In 1992 flooding during Monsoon season killed 1,834 people across the country which includes 322 live in Azad Kashmir.

  •  July 2010 floods swept 20% of Pakistan’s land, the flood is the result of unprecedented Monsoon rains which lasted from 28 July to 31 July 2010. Azad Jammu Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and North eastern Punjab were badly affected during the monsoon rains when dams, rivers and lakes overflowed. By mid-August, according to the governmental Federal Flood Commission (FFC), the floods had caused the deaths of at least 1,540 people, while 2,088 people had received injuries, 557,226 houses had been destroyed, and over 6 million people had been displaced which includes 96 lives and more than 10000 damaged houses. One month later, the data had been updated to reveal 1,781 deaths, 2,966 people with injuries, and more than 1.89 million homes destroyed. The flood affected more than 20 million people exceeding the combined total of individuals affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The flood is considered as worst in Pakistan’s history affecting people of all four provinces and Gilgit–Baltistan and Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan.