173 killed, 260 injured in rain-related incidents across Pakistan
According to the NDMA report, 69 men, 32 women and 72 children died in rain-related incidents in the country.
According to the NDMA report, 69 men, 32 women and 72 children died in rain-related incidents in the country.
Ten people were killed and ten others injured when an avalanche hit a convoy of nomads in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, an official confirmed.
Weeks of anger over food shortage and runaway inflation has snowballed into massive anti-government demonstrations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and illegally held Gilgit Baltistan.
"Our aim is to implement the resolution unanimously passed in Indian Parliament on February 22, 1994 to reclaim remaining parts of Kashmir from the illegal occupation of Pakistan," the defence minister said at the ‘Shaurya Diwas’ celebrations held in Srinagar to commemorate the 75th year of air landed operations of Indian Army at Budgam Airport.
Balochistan and Punjab provinces reported five deaths each, while Sindh and the Gilgit-Baltistan region logged four and one, respectively, the Authority said.
The inclusion of Muzaffarabad and Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) in the forecast comes amid news that Pakistan’s Supreme Court, which has no jurisdiction, is illegally allowing elections in Gilgit-Baltistan this week.
The inclusion of Muzaffarabad and Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) in the forecast comes amid news that Pakistan's Supreme Court, which has no jurisdiction, is illegally allowing elections in Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) this week.
The protest comes as the Pakistan Supreme Court, in a recent order, allowed the amendment to the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general elections in the region in September and setting up a caretaker government during the interim period.
Gilgit-Baltistan government spokesman Faizullah Faraq said that the victims included two children.
PoK authorities have said that the toll could increase as some areas in the Neelum Valley were still inaccessible due to heavy snowfall, while weather officials forecast another spell of snowfall beginning on Friday.
