Pakistan has issued a flood alert for some southern districts, warning of torrential rains, as rescue teams continued searching for missing people in the northwest, where severe floods have killed hundreds over the past week.

Heavier than usual rains and sudden cloudbursts during this monsoon season kill more than 300 people in recent days.

Severe monsoonal flooding has caused widespread devastation across Pakistan, destroying homes and sweeping away entire villages.

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly to highlight the devastating floods ravaging his country and placing more than 33 million people at risk. The newly appointed leader used his platform to draw global attention to the climate disaster unfolding across Pakistan.

Due to heavy rains, thousands of villagers living in the low-lying areas of Pakistan's Punjab were forced to leave their homes as levels of water rose in the Indus river, washing away all of the protective guide bunds and dykes constructed to support the Layyah-Taunsa Bridge,

Pakistani authorities are defending their response to flash floods that killed more than 200 people in a single northwestern district this week.

Monsoon floods in Pakistan kill nearly 400, devastate villages, cut roads and power, as authorities warn of more rain and looming urban flooding in Karachi.