August 27, 2025 | 11:27 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Heavy rains have inundated parts of Pakistan and India, prompting flash floods in Jammu and Indian-administered Kashmir. At least 34 people have died and many others are missing due to landslides on the Hindu pilgrimage route, as reported by the Press Trust of India as quoted by CNA on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
Landslides on Tuesday near the Vaishno Devi Temple on the famous pilgrimage route have killed at least 34 people, reported ANI.
This is the latest disaster caused by downpours in the Himalayan region, which killed 60 people and left 200 missing in Kishtwar in Indian-controlled Kashmir last week.
Near Jammu, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the rainfall reached 368 mm on Tuesday.
Schools have been ordered to be closed in many areas of Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab in northern India.
Authorities are struggling to restore telecommunication services, which are "almost non-existent," said Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Flooding in Pakistan
Authorities in the Punjab province of eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, as reported by Arab News, requested military assistance in rescue and relief efforts after heavy rains caused major rivers to overflow, inundating villages and forcing more than 150,000 people to flee, officials said.
Rescue teams evacuated more than 20,000 people overnight from the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, which also faces the risk of flooding. Those evacuated from areas near Lahore are living along the banks of the Ravi River, said Irfan Ali Kathia, director general of the Punjab Disaster Management Authority.
Mass evacuations began earlier this week in six districts of Punjab after heavier-than-usual monsoon rains and the overflow of water from dams in the neighboring country of India triggered flash floods in the low-lying border areas, Kathia said.
Weather forecasters predict that rain will continue to fall across the region this week. Heavy rains and flash floods in the Himalayan region have killed nearly 100 people in August.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the authorities on Wednesday for timely evacuations to avoid casualties and said that relief supplies and tents are being provided to the affected people, according to a government statement.
Kathia warned that the floodwaters in the Ravi, Chenab, and Sutlej rivers is rising dangerously and many villages are submerged in the districts of Kasur, Okara, Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Vehari, and Sialkot.
Rescue teams have been using boats to evacuate people to safer places this week, Kathia said.
India warned Pakistan about the possibility of cross-border floods through diplomatic channels and not through the Indus Water Commission, which is a permanent mechanism based on the Indus Water Treaty mediated by the World Bank in 1960.
New Delhi suspended the commission's work after the deaths of 26 tourists in April in Indian-controlled Kashmir, even though Islamabad insists that India cannot unilaterally cancel the agreement.
The latest flood warning comes as rescue teams with sniffer dogs search for more than 150 people reported missing earlier this month after flash floods killed more than 300 residents in three villages in the Buner district in the northwest.
Floods have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since late June.
Scientists say that climate change has triggered heavier monsoon rains in South Asia, raising concerns of a recurrence of the 2022 weather disaster that hit a third of Pakistan's area and killed 1,739 people.
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