With remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month.
Declaring a monsoon emergency, Pakistan's cabinet the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to take as many preventive measures as possible.
During his visit to stricken areas, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said "We're doing our best to provide for extensive relief and rehabilitation of flood victims."