Through the Lens: Deadly floods ravage Pakistan
Floods across Pakistan have killed over 950 people and displaced 4.5 million, disrupting supply chains and fueling food price fears. Massive floods since mid-August have inflicted over $1 billion in damage to Pakistan's agriculture sector, worsening the country's food security crisis and prompting the government to declare an emergency.
Women and children sit on a rescue boat as they evacuate from a flooded area following monsoon rains and rising water levels of the Chenab River, in Daryapur village in Punjab province on Sept. 9. (Photo by Quratulain Asim/Reuters)
A man carries a sack of food for his family as he wades through a flooded area, following monsoon rains and rising water levels in the Chenab River, in Basti Khan Bela in Punjab province on Sept. 10. (Photo by Quratulain Asim/Reuters)
Residents sit in a rescue boat as they evacuate from a flooded area in Qasim Bela village in Punjab province on Sept. 11. (Photo by Quratulain Asim/Reuters)
Residents travel on a boat with supplies through a flooded area, following monsoon rains and rising water levels of the Indus River, in Ghano Khan Jatoi village in Sindh province on Sept. 12. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
Residents offload a cow as they evacuate from a flooded area in Seetpur, Punjab province on Sept. 13. (Photo by Quratulain Asim/Reuters)
A resident catches food handouts as he and others stand in a flooded street in Seetpur, Punjab province on Sept. 13. (Photo by Quratulain Asim/Reuters)
Evacuees shelter in a tent following flooding in Jalapur Pirwala in Punjab province on Sept. 13. (Photo by Muhammad Reza/Getty Images)
Flooding in Jalalpur Pirwala in Punjab province on Sept. 15. (Photo by Muhammad Reza/Getty Images)
Residents wade through floodwaters in Jalalpur Pirwala in Punjab province on Sept. 15. (Photo by Mansoor Abbas/EPA/Jiji)
Several overflowing rivers in Punjab province converge in the Multan district on Sept. 10. (Photo by Mansoor Abbas/EPA/Jiji)
Residents walk through mud left by floodwaters in a residential area of Karachi on Sept 11. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/Jiji)
Vehicles drive past a stranded bus along a waterlogged road in Karachi on Sept 12. (Photo by Rehan Khan/EPA/Jiji)
Villagers wade through floodwaters as they make their way to safer places in Alipur in Punjab province on Sept. 12. (Photo by Shahid Saeed/AFP/Jiji)
A man wades through a flooded area as people receive relief supplies in the Multan district in Punjab province on Sept. 15. (Photo by Mansoor Abbas/EPA/Jiji)
People look at a damaged section of the Shahrah-e-Bhutto Expressway after heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Karachi on Sept. 17. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP/Jiji)
In Pakistan, a gas station and shops sit in floodwaters near a closed motorway in Jalalpur Pirwala in the Multan district of Punjab province on Sept. 17. (Photo by Shahid Saeed/AFP/Jiji)
