Hundreds of homes and vast swathes of farmland were destroyed in the northwest and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, with the main highway to China reportedly cut and communities isolated as monsoon rains caused flash floods and landslides.around 2,800 Pakistani holidaymakers had been stranded in the Swat valley, where the military maintains a heavy presence after a massive operation against Taliban insurgents last year.

“This is the worst ever flood in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the country’s history,” provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said Friday.
The Karakoram Highway, which links Pakistan to China, was closed as rains washed away a bridge in Shangla district, also cutting off Gilgit-Baltistan from other parts of the country,
Pakistan has been hardest hit but monsoon rains have also killed 25 people in the province of Balochistan over the past few days,