Pakistan has declared a national emergency after rain-induced calamitous floods killed more than 937 people.
The country's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called the incessant monsoon rains a “climate-inducted humanitarian crisis of epic proportions”.
From June 14 to date, the Sindh province has reported the highest number of deaths as 306 people lost their lives due to floods and rain-related incidents, according to the latest data compiled by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
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."