With villages swept away and Pakistan’s largest city assailed by monsoon floods, climate change has brought a catastrophic new normal to the country.

Across Pakistan, monsoon rains that began in late June have been heavier than usual, killing at least 645 people. Four hundred of those deaths were in the northwest alone, where narrow valleys and river-carved gorges funnel rainwater into sudden torrents.

Pakistan has received higher-than-normal monsoon rainfall this year, triggering floods and mudslides that have killed more than 540 people since June 26.

Torrential rains continued pouring on dozens of villages in northern Pakistan, triggering flash floods that have wiped out houses and killed hundreds.

DALORI BALA, Pakistan - Residents in a hilltop village in north-west Pakistan described how raging waters and rocks had swept through their homes after a cloudburst, as authorities said on Aug 19 the toll from floods in the region over the past five days had risen to 365.

MUZAFFARABAD: At least ten people, including women and children, were killed as heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides in Gilgit-Baltistan and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Fresh torrential rains in northern Pakistan killed at least 20 people on Monday, local officials said, as the region is ravaged by an unusually intense monsoon season that has left