STORY: Pakistan’s provincial disaster management authority in Punjab issued a damage report on Saturday (August 30) saying 1.5 million people and 2,308 villages had been affected due to severe flooding in Ravi, Sutlej, and Chenab rivers.

Punjab’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), issuing a warning, said on Saturday that very high to exceptionally high flooding would continue in river Sutlej, Ravi and Chenab.

Torrential monsoon rains ravaged neighbouring adversaries India and Pakistan this week, with further heavy downpours forecast for this weekend.

On Friday (August 29), in eastern Pakistan, flood waters hit the outskirts of the country’s second biggest city, Lahore, and threatened to submerge the major town of Jhang, in the worst flooding in almost 40 years in that part of the country.

The floodwater entered several residential areas of Lahore, inundating roads and damaging houses and other infrastructure.

Dozens of people protested against a local residential society in Lahore demanding compensation for their losses.

Earlier heavier flows that flooded Gujrat–Sialkot region were now reduced to low flood, said Flood Forecasting Division, Lahore.

This monsoon season so far, 820 people have died in Pakistan, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.

The flooded east of the country is home to half of the 240 million population and serves as the country’s breadbasket, with widespread damage to crops from the deluge.

Pakistan evacuated more than 1 million people this week in the east of the country, away from the path of the three overflowing rivers that come from India.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. FLOODED PETROL STATION SEEN FROM MOVING CAR

2. ROAD SEEN THROUGH CAR WINDSCREEN

3. VARIOUS OF HOUSES SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATER

4. RAIN FALLING

5. VARIOUS OF FLOODWATER OUTSIDE HOUSES

6. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED TO PROTEST AGAINST MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL RESIDENTIAL SOCIETY

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) LOCAL RESIDENT, MOHAMMAD ISMAIL, SAYING:

“The sad part of the story is that they (society management) messaged at 1:30 am in the night that people should move to safe places when everything was inundated. They messaged in their group that all should go to safe places when everything was submerged in water. We were rescued by police and Rangers when the water had reached at the doorsteps of our houses.”

8. RESIDENT TALKING TO SOCIETY MANAGEMENT

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:

“We will know about the losses when we return to our houses. They have said so but will they make up for the losses. The furniture, the fridge and oven that all become out of order, will they compensate for it? Police rescued us forcibly just ten minutes before the floodwater arrived.”

SIALKOT, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

10. VARIOUS OF HOUSES AND TREES SUBMERGED IN FLOODWATER

11. FLOODED FIELD

12. VARIOUS OF COWS GRAZING/FLOOD WATER

13. VARIOUS OF HOUSES AND MARKETS SUBMERGED IN WATER

14. MAN HOLDING BUCKET WADING THROUGH DEEP FLOOD WATER

HEAD MARALA, NEAR SIALKOT, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

15. CHENAB RIVER FLOWING UNDER MARALA HEADWORKS BRIDGE

16. VARIOUS OF FLOODED RIVER

17. VIEW FROM BRIDGE AND RIVER WHEN DRIVING