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Pakistan: Deadly Monsoon Floods Affect Over One Million People in Punjab Province

Heavy monsoon rains have caused deadly floods across Pakistan. The floods in Punjab province alone have affected more than one million people, and the nationwide death toll has surpassed 800 since the monsoon season began in June. In the city of Lahore, even luxury developments have been submerged, with thousands of homes flooded.

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Deadly Attack on Passenger Bus in Loralai - Pakistan

This photo taken with mobile phone on July 11, 2025 shows ambulances near the attack site in Loralai district of Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least nine passengers were abducted and shot dead after gunmen intercepted at least two buses in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, the spokesperson of the provincial government confirmed on Friday. The attack occurred on Thursday night in Loralai, a district in northern Balochistan, where armed assailants stopped the passenger buses, removed several individuals based on identity, and took them away, Shahid Rind, the spokesperson, told Xinhua. Photo by Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Deadly Attack on Passenger Bus in Loralai - Pakistan

This photo taken with mobile phone on July 11, 2025 shows ambulances near the attack site in Loralai district of Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least nine passengers were abducted and shot dead after gunmen intercepted at least two buses in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, the spokesperson of the provincial government confirmed on Friday. The attack occurred on Thursday night in Loralai, a district in northern Balochistan, where armed assailants stopped the passenger buses, removed several individuals based on identity, and took them away, Shahid Rind, the spokesperson, told Xinhua. Photo by Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Deadly Attack on Passenger Bus in Loralai - Pakistan

This photo taken with mobile phone on July 11, 2025 shows people gathering near the attack site in Loralai district of Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least nine passengers were abducted and shot dead after gunmen intercepted at least two buses in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, the spokesperson of the provincial government confirmed on Friday. The attack occurred on Thursday night in Loralai, a district in northern Balochistan, where armed assailants stopped the passenger buses, removed several individuals based on identity, and took them away, Shahid Rind, the spokesperson, told Xinhua. Photo by Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PAKISTAN-DIAMIR-ROAD ACCIDENT

(240503) -- DIAMIR, May 3, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with mobile phone shows people searching for survivors after a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the Diamir district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in northern Pakistan on May 3, 2024. At least 15 people were killed and 22 others injured on Friday morning after a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the Diamir district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in northern Pakistan, an official told Xinhua. (Str/Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-DIAMIR-ROAD ACCIDENT

(240503) -- DIAMIR, May 3, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with mobile phone shows people searching for survivors after a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the Diamir district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in northern Pakistan on May 3, 2024. At least 15 people were killed and 22 others injured on Friday morning after a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the Diamir district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in northern Pakistan, an official told Xinhua. (Str/Xinhua)

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15 killed, 22 injured in road accident in northern Pakistan

STORY: 15 killed, 22 injured in road accident in northern Pakistan SHOOTING TIME: May 3, 2024 DATELINE: May 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:48 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the car accident in northern Pakistan on May 3, 2024 STORYLINE: At least 15 people were killed and 22 others injured on Friday morning after a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the Diamir district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in northern Pakistan, an official told Xinhua. The spokesperson for GB Chief Minister Faizullah Faraq told Xinhua that the accident bus fell into the ravine while taking a sharp turn in the Yashoo Kheal Das area. Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted 15 bodies and the 22 injured to a nearby hospital, including children and women. The official feared that the death toll might rise as several of the injured were in critical condition and some passengers were still trapped in the bus. The spokesperson added that the bus was heading towards Hunza district from the country'

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39 killed in rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan

STORY: 39 killed in rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan SHOOTING TIME: April 15, 2024 DATELINE: April 16, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the flood disaster 2. various of rescue efforts STORYLINE: Thirty-nine people were killed in rain-related accidents across Pakistan over the last three days, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday. The country's east Punjab had been worst-hit in the ongoing rain spell with 21 fatalities in separate lightning incidents, the NDMA said in a statement. Seven people were killed in roof collapse and lightning incidents in the southwestern province of Balochistan, whereas eight, including children, died when the roofs of their houses collapsed in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, two people died after slipping into the river, while one man died after being buried under an avalanche in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, the NDMA added.

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4 killed, 18 injured in bus-dumper collision in Pakistan's Karachi

STORY: 4 killed, 18 injured in bus-dumper collision in Pakistan's Karachi DATELINE: Aug. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the collision site 2. various of the victims transferring to the local hospital STORYLINE: At least four people were killed and around 18 others injured on Monday in a collision between a bus and a dumper truck in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, the rescue service reported. According to the reports, the accident took place on the Northern Bypass of the city when a passenger bus, on a one-way road, overtook a vehicle and collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction, resulting in the casualties. The rescue service said that the bus driver didn't properly estimate the speed of the dumper which caused the collision, adding that a troller collided with the dumper afterward followed by a car. The locals and the rescue workers shifted the victims to local hospitals, said the rescue service. Five of the injured were

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8 tourists killed, 9 injured as van falls into ravine in northern Pakistan

STORY: 8 tourists killed, 9 injured as van falls into ravine in northern Pakistan DATELINE: July 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:36 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the site 2. various of street views STORYLINE: A tourist van plunged into a ravine in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region on Friday, killing eight people while injuring at least nine others, rescue and government officials said. The accident took place near the Babusar Pass area in the Diamer district of the GB region when the van tumbled off the road after colliding with a car, Shaukat Riaz, district coordinator of the state-run rescue organization Rescue 1122, told Xinhua. The van was on its way to Gilgit city of the GB region from Sahiwal district of the South Asian country's east Punjab province when the accident happened, the official added. Following the accident, rescue teams and local volunteers reached the site to do search and rescue work, and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital, police said. X

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10 killed, 10 injured as avalanche hits northern Pakistan

STORY: 10 killed, 10 injured as avalanche hits northern Pakistan DATELINE: May 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the avalanche site STORYLINE: Ten people were killed and ten others injured when an avalanche hit a group of nomads in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region on Saturday, an official confirmed. Scores of people could be trapped under the debris and the rescue teams were trying to recover them despite challenges posed by bad weather and poor road infrastructure in the far-flung area of Astore district where the incident happened, Chief Secretary of GB Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani said. He said the nomads were reaching Astore from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir with their cattle to find grazing fields. Every year from May to June, thousands of nomads from different areas migrate to the region as the weather is pleasant here and they can find ample food for the cattle, the official added. The injured people including women and ch

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25 killed in bus-car collision in northern Pakistan

STORY: 25 killed in bus-car collision in northern Pakistan DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the accident site and rescue efforts STORYLINE: At least 25 people were killed and several others injured when a passenger bus collided with a car in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, government officials and police said on Tuesday. The accident occurred after the over-speeding bus collided with a car near the Shatial check post in the Kohistan district of the region, information minister of the GB province Fatehullah Khan told media. The passenger bus and the car fell into the ravine after the accident, said the official, adding that at least 45 passengers were onboard the bus when the incident happened. Rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the victims to a nearby hospital. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Islamabad. (XHTV)

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PAKISTAN-CHINA-TOURISM

(230103) -- ISLAMABAD, Jan. 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 17, 2020 shows a view of the old city of Hunza valley in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. TO GO WITH "Interview: Pakistan-China year of tourism to greatly boost tourism cooperation, says Pakistani official" (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

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80-yr-old Japan climber leads team to success on Pakistani peak

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Japanese mountain climber Tsuneo Miyamori, 80, speaks on July 31, 2012, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, about the joint expedition of Japanese and Pakistani climbers he led that successfully conquered a previously unscaled 6,105-meter peak in the Karakoram mountain range in northern Pakistan earlier the same month.

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Japanese tourists return from Pakistan

NARITA, Japan - A woman answers reporters' questions at Narita airport on April 9, 2012, after returning to Japan with others from Pakistan. They were among 77 Japanese, mostly tourists, stranded in northern Pakistan by sectarian violence since early the previous week and evacuated by a Pakistani military aircraft on April 8.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A father carries his injured daughter to a makeshift clinic for treatment in the suburbs of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, on Oct. 14.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A boy cries for his ration of relief food in the Pakistani Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad on Oct. 14.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - Two bothers look exhausted as they warm themselves at a bonfire in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan early on the morning of Oct. 14.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Army soldiers carry a body uncovered from the debris of collapsed buildings in the Pakistani Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad on Oct. 12.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - A girl (L) and a boy pose for photos at a makeshift clinic set up in an open square in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan on Oct. 13.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - An injured boy lies on a bed at a makeshift clinic set up in an open square in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan on Oct. 13.

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - Villagers stand by the debris of a collapsed school building in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan on Oct. 13. Rescue workers said a number of bodies remain buried beneath the debris.

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Hopes for recovery of survivors from debris fading: U.N.

MUZZAHARABAD, Pakistan - A father (L) tries to lull his daughter in the northeast Pakistani town of Muzzaharabad on Oct. 12 as she undergoes treatment for a head injury she suffered during a big earthquake that hit northern Pakistan and India. U.N. disaster assessment and relief team said hopes of recovering people alive from debris in areas worst affected by the Oct. 8 quake are diminishing in hardest-hit Pakistan.

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Japanese rescue workers in northern Pakikstan

BATGRAM, Pakistan - Residents remove the debris of buildings heavy damaged by a strong earthquake in the northern Pakistani town of Batgram on Oct. 11.

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Japanese rescue workers in northern Pakikstan

BATGRAM, Pakistan - A resident looks at the debris of buildings destroyed by a strong earthquake in the northern Pakistani town of Batgram on Oct. 11.

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Japanese rescue workers in northern Pakikstan

BATGRAM, Pakistan - Members of a Japanese rescue team are in operation in the quake-hit northern Pakistani town of Batgram on Oct. 11.

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Japanese rescue workers in northern Pakikstan

BATGRAM, Pakistan - Members of a Japanese rescue team are in operation in the quake-hit northern Pakistani town of Batgram on Oct. 11.

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30 Pakistani detainees return home from Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - Thirty Pakistanis detained in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime last December walk to a special Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft at Bagram airport, north of Kabul, on April 25 after being handed over to Pakistani authority. The Pakistanis, who had entered Afghanistan illegally to help the Taliban fight against the Northern Alliance, arrived in Peshawar later in the day.

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DPJ's Hatoyama visits refugee camp, hospital in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from L), leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), visits a school facility at a camp for Afghan refugees in Shamshato on the outskirts of Peshawar, northern Pakistan, on Dec. 26. Hatoyama is on a weeklong visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Afghan nationals cautious on N. Alliance taking over Kabul

TOKYO, Japan - A representative of a Pakistan-based Afghan women's rights advocacy group and an Afghan refugee who survived a massacre by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban speaks in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2001. The 49-old man, who used the name Saeed Abrahim, for security reasons, expressed caution Wednesday at the prospect of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance coming to power.

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that a Pakistani soldier carries out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows a vehicle trapped in snow in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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PAKISTAN-MURREE-HEAVY SNOW-DEATH

(220108) -- MURREE (PAKISTAN), Jan. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows that Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue work in Murree, northern Pakistan, on Jan. 8, 2022. At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in heavy snow in Murree city, police sources said on Saturday. (ISPR/Handout via Xinhua)

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DPJ's Hatoyama visits refugee camp, hospital in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from L), leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), visits a school facility at a camp for Afghan refugees in Shamshato on the outskirts of Peshawar, northern Pakistan, on Dec. 26. Hatoyama is on a weeklong visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Afghan nationals cautious on N. Alliance taking over Kabul

TOKYO, Japan - A representative of a Pakistan-based Afghan women's rights advocacy group and an Afghan refugee who survived a massacre by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban speaks in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2001. The 49-old man, who used the name Saeed Abrahim, for security reasons, expressed caution Wednesday at the prospect of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance coming to power.

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Japanese archaeologist helps Pakistan preserve historical sites

Atsushi Noguchi from the Japanese Center for South Asian Cultural Heritage takes photos of rock-inscribed epigraphy of prehistoric Indian emperor Ashoka in Mansehra, northern Pakistan, on Oct. 30, 2015. The center is helping the university preserve the inscriptions and other ancient Buddhist monuments in Pakistan with three-dimensional imaging technology. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese archaeologist helps Pakistan preserve historical sites

Atsushi Noguchi (C) from the Japanese Center for South Asian Cultural Heritage teaches students of Hazara University how to take photos of historical monuments with digital cameras in Mansehra, northern Pakistan, on Oct. 30, 2015. The center and the university are working together to preserve ancient Buddhist monuments by using three-dimensional imaging technology. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum curator speaks on history of education in Pakistan's Hunza

Sher Baz Kaleem, manager of the Baltit Fort Hunza historical museum in the mountainous Hunza valley in northern Pakistan, speaks in an interview in the central Hunza city of Karimabad on Aug. 10, 2015. He says education was the only step in the region to overcome poverty and that many who studied abroad returned to Hunza to become teachers at local schools. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Students pose at school in high-enrollment Pakistani area

Students pose for photos at Hasegawa Memorial Public School in Karimabad in the mountainous Hunza valley in northern Pakistan on Aug. 10, 2015. The school, named after Japanese climber Tsuneo Hasegawa who was killed in an avalanche in the region in 1991, said that almost all children are enrolled in school in Hunza, whereas the enrollment rate in a typical rural area in Pakistan can be as low as 10 percent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High attendance rates at school in northern Pakistan valley

Female students listen to their teacher at Hasegawa Memorial Public School in Karimabad in the mountainous Hunza valley in northern Pakistan on Aug. 10, 2015. The school, named after Japanese climber Tsuneo Hasegawa who was killed in an avalanche in the region in 1991, said that almost all children are enrolled in school in Hunza, whereas the enrollment rate in a typical rural area in Pakistan can be as low as 10 percent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A boy cries for his ration of relief food in the Pakistani Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad on Oct. 14. (Kyodo)

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - A girl (L) and a boy pose for photos at a makeshift clinic set up in an open square in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan on Oct. 13. (Kyodo)

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

GARHI HABIBULLAH KHAN, Pakistan - Villagers stand by the debris of a collapsed school building in the northern Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah Khan on Oct. 13. Rescue workers said a number of bodies remain buried beneath the debris. (Kyodo)

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Scenes from northern Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A father carries his injured daughter to a makeshift clinic for treatment in the suburbs of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, on Oct. 14. (Kyodo)