Caused, the floods are due to strong monsoon rains in the region, which are considered the strongest in more than eighty years. According to OCHA 36 Pakistani districts at least partially submerged and more than one million inhabitants directly from the effects of affected. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Information Minister of the Government of the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan described it as the “worst disaster in our history” and complained that “the infrastructure of this province was already destroyed by terrorism. What was left of it, was abolished by the floods. ”
Many roads are broken and many places are not accessible. In some areas the water was up about five feet, so that many people endured on the roofs of their houses, until help arrived. On 31 July published the daily newspaper Dawn preliminary reports that at least 45 bridges and 3,700 houses were swept away by the floods. The Karakoram Highway, which connects Pakistan with China, was blocked after a bridge on the highway was destroyed. .
In early August, the focus of the flooding moved from the northwest border with Afghanistan along the Indus River down south in the western province of Punjab and the southern province of Sindh .
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the devastating floods a strong impact on the lives of the armed conflict in the border region with Afghanistan exposed civilians. Apart from the destruction of houses and infrastructure including water supply was affected, so that the inhabitants of the region vulnerable to diseases caused by contaminated water.