ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s state media on Sunday forecast more rain and likely flooding in several parts of the country from next week, as the death toll from monsoon downpours since late June reached 271. Intense monsoon rains have battered Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad since June 26, causing urban floods and glacial lake outburst floods in several parts of the country.

Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan claim 266 lives, injure 628, and cause widespread damage and destruction.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s state media on Sunday forecast more rain and likely flooding in several parts of the country from next week, as the death toll from monsoon downpours since…