‘Intense’ monsoon rain, flooding continue to engulf Pakistan’s Punjab

Authorities contented caller evacuation warnings to communities adjacent the Chenab, Sutlej, and Ravi rivers.

New evacuation orders person been issued successful low-lying areas of Pakistan’s Punjab state amid a dense flood warning, with the portion experiencing its worst flooding connected record.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department posted connected X connected Monday that rains were persisting crossed the state arsenic “another aggravated monsoon strategy is expected to bring exceptional downpours successful confederate parts during the adjacent 2 days”.

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It added that “widespread dense to precise dense rainfall thundershowers accompanied by windstorms” were expected to deed areas connected Monday.

Rains persist crossed Pakistan arsenic different aggravated monsoon strategy is expected to bring exceptional downpours successful Southern parts during adjacent 2 days.#MonsoonAlert #RainfallUpdate #WeatherUpdate #RainInPakistan #Monsoon2025 #PakistanWeather #RainyDays #HeavyRainfall #StaySafe pic.twitter.com/1ancjiLfag

— Pak Met Department محکمہ موسمیات (@pmdgov) September 8, 2025

With an evacuation bid issued to communities adjacent the swollen Chenab, Sutlej, and Ravi rivers, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Multan successful Punjab, explained that the concern was “not nether control”.

“We person reports from aboriginal this greeting that Jalalpur Pirwala, which is 90km [56 miles] from Multan … that fractional a cardinal radical are stuck aft the h2o inundated their villages; immoderate of them are seeking extortion nether rooftops,” helium said.

“There aren’t capable boats to evacuate these people. Helicopter operations person been called in, but the upwind is besides not good,” helium added.

With the rainfall continuing, Hyder stressed that the concern was a “huge calamity” with villages and houses destroyed, but besides the state present having to reel from losing crops owed to the demolition of farmland.

In Multan, located betwixt the Sutlej and Chenab rivers, floodwaters person breached astatine slightest 3 embankments, inundating dozens of villages.

Jalalpur Pirwala has been among the worst-hit places, with floodwaters submerging homes, farmland, and lasting crops.

At slightest five people were killed connected Saturday erstwhile a rescue vessel carrying 30 radical capsized adjacent Multan.

Meanwhile, India alerted Pakistan of precocious floods connected the Sutlej River connected Sunday, informing that the monsoon rainfall would impact downstream districts.

New Delhi has been relaying specified warnings done diplomatic channels alternatively than done the Indus Waters Treaty, which governed h2o sharing betwixt the neighbouring countries, aft India near the statement successful April pursuing an onslaught connected Indian-administered Kashmir that resulted successful the deaths of 26 tourists, which India blames connected Pakistan.

India has besides been affected, but little so, by the flooding successful its ain Punjab region. Experts accidental planetary warming has worsened the standard of monsoon rains, and some nations are present suffering.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies