The floods, resulting from monsoon rains that began in June, are unprecedented in scale and scope. They've affected some 33 million people, causing death, damage, displacement and loss whose effects will be felt for months and years to come.
Here are images showing some of the extent of destruction and emergency response efforts.
Residents move their belongings from their submerged houses after heavy monsoon rainfall in the Rajanpur district of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Aug. 24. Satellite imagery shows the Indus River near Rojhan in south-central Pakistan. The left image is from March 24, and the right image, showing heavy flooding of villages and fields, is from Aug. 28. Volunteers with the Saylani Welfare International Trust charity distribute food to displaced people in an area hit by floods in Sukkur, Sindh province, on Aug 29.
Flooding in Mingora, a town in Pakistan’s northern Swat Valley, follows heavy monsoon rainfall on Aug. 27. Security personnel load relief food bags into a government helicopter for people affected by floods in Saidu Sharif, in the Swat Valley, on Aug. 30. On Tuesday, the U.N. launched an appeal with the Pakistani government to raise $160 million in emergency aid.
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