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Met Dept says more rain coming this way in the next 24 hours.

Mirpurkhas worst affected with 15 people being killed in torrential rains.

Perception remains that katchi abadi residents are second-class citizens

Three tehsils, about 700,000 people evacuated as a pre-emptive measure.

Electricity and telephone coverage cut off from 2:30 am on Wednesday.

CDA asks for an overhaul of Parliament House, Presidency and SC building to protect them from cloudbursts.

Hundreds of acres of agricultural land were also inundated.

According to the Flood Forecasting Division the reserve of usable water at Tarbela Dam is 3.672 million acre feet.

Pakistan has faced over 150 major natural disasters in the last 65 years.

The incident couldn’t immediately be reported owing to poor communication in the area as a result of the...