Around 100,000 people evacuated due to floods in Pakistan

Kasur, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 23, 2023

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. The head of Punjab's government, Mohsin Naqvi, said that monsoon rains had prompted authorities in India to r