WEB DESK
The unprecedented wave of monsoon and flood havoc has pushed the country into a state of emergency. Acute humanitarian and food crisis by the incessant monsoon rains and floods raging across the country which has so far claimed 1,003 lives and left over 20 million people homeless.
Apocalyptic images pouring in from parts of Sindh, Balochistan, Southern Punjab and other areas have shocked the world as Pakistan battles one of the worst floods ever.
According to media report at least three million people are in need of immediate aid, with monsoon season showing no mercy and obliterating everything in its way.
This number is expected to rise in the coming days, with floods wreaking havoc in around 101 cities of Pakistan.
Preliminary findings by the NDMA, PDMAs and district management committees note that nearly 340 children and 211 women perished in the recent floods and downpours this year.
It also left more than 1,700 people injured.
As per the official data collected from different districts the highest deaths were reported from Sindh with 320 while in other areas 260 deaths and 1,083 injuries were reported in Balochistan, 187 deaths and 320 injuries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 184 deaths and 233 injuries in Punjab, 41 died in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and 11 persons perished in Gilgit-Baltistan.
