Medhaj News: The floods and landslides from days of heavy rains have now claimed more than 150 lives in Pakistan where emergency workers scrambled to rescue residents left marooned on rooftops and clinging to trees.

In Pakistani Punjab, situation is probably far worse than POK, though news of rescue efforts not coming in from either: "At least 1,091,807 people were affected in Punjab province and 31,800 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir," a senior official at Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.

Authorities blew up a strategic embankment to divert raging floodwaters that began in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir last week from a city in the populous Punjab province.