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7 September 2025, Aljazeera: Millions displaced in severe Pakistan flooding as India impacted too. Four million people have been affected by devastating floods in Pakistan, and thousands of farmers across the border in India are also experiencing the loss of their crops as experts say global warming has worsened the scale of the monsoon rains both nations are now suffering. Over the past week, heavy rains swelled three rivers that run through Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, causing widespread devastation in the country’s agricultural heartland. Entire towns have been submerged, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder reported from Multan, Pakistan, on Sunday. “The floods have left thousands of farms inundated. Valuable crops are lost,” he said, noting that the government was trying to offer relief to those affected. According to Punjab Relief Commissioner Nabil Javed, the flooding of the Ravi, Sutlej and Chenab rivers has forced more than two million people to flee their homes. Pakistani authorities have set up hundreds of relief camps, medical facilities and veterinary posts to help both people and livestock. Since June, more than 900 people have died in Pakistan as a result of the monsoon floods, the United Nations said. Read more here