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Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan are frequently hit by flooding during the monsoon season. Since 2010, the region has suffered devastating floods that have left hundreds dead each year. [ 2 ] The worst flooding in the past 80 years occurred in 2010, when flooding in Pakistan resulted in more than 1,700 deaths and widespread damage.
[14] [15] [16] It was considered the worst earthquake to affect Pakistan since the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Many survivors suffered broken bones or lost a limb when the buildings they were inside collapsed. [17] The earthquake affected a sparsely populated region of southern Pakistan where most of the population live in poverty.
2013 Pakistan gas bus explosion occurred on 25 May 2013 after a gas cylinder exploded in a school minivan heading towards Gujrat in Pakistan. The blast killed at least 17 people, including 16 children and a bus driver and another 7 children were wounded.
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Pakistan is in the midst of a humanitarian disaster after extreme flooding prompted by "monster monsoon" rain this summer has led to a staggering number of casualties and damage, as well as ...
The 2013 India–Pakistan border incidents was a series of armed skirmishes along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir area. Starting from the mid-January 2013, they have been described as the "worst bout of fighting in the region in nearly 10 years". [ 1 ]
Event Disaster Location Date Affected Death Toll; Earthquake/Tsunami: Makran: 325 BC: 1935 Quetta earthquake: Earthquake: Quetta: May 31, 1935: 60,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake
The following is a list of floods in Pakistan. In 1973 heavy rains in Indian Kashmir caused the Indus River to overflow and flood the Punjab province of Pakistan. [1] 1992 India–Pakistan floods; 1993 Monsoon Floods Across South Asia killed fifteen people in Pakistan. [2] In 1995 heavy monsoon rains occurred in mid-July.