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At a weekly press briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan called on India to fully comply with the Indus Water Treaty (IWT).
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The remarks, originally made during earlier flood seasons, have resurfaced at a time when Punjab province is reeling under catastrophic rains.
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Asif told reporters that India was to blame for the floods in Pakistan. He went further, saying that the floodwater carried dead bodies from across the border.
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India cautioned that several dams, including Madhopur and Thein, had reached dangerous levels due to heavy rainfall and sluice gates had to be opened to prevent dam breaches.
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The information exchange comes against a backdrop of deadly monsoon floods in both countries. Since late June, at least 799 people have died in Pakistan.
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More than 300 people have died in northwest Pakistan after two days of heavy rains and flash floods, local officials said on Saturday (August 16). The deluge hit the remote mountainous northern part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, with cloudbursts, flash floods, lightning strikes and landslides, in the deadliest downpour of this year’s monsoon season
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Pakistan has received higher-than-normal monsoon rainfall this year, which experts link to climate change, triggering floods and mudslides.
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The majority of the deaths, 110, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the province's Disaster Management Authority.
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Pakistanis are reportedly over a dozen times more likely to die from climate-related disasters than people elsewhere.
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At least 18 people have died in weather-related incidents since the rain started last week, including three who were killed in the past day, Pakistani media reported.
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The nine-month Stand-by Arrangement (SBA), if approved, will bring $3 billion, or 111 per cent of Pakistan’s IMF quota, which will ease the country’s financial crisis, the Dawn newspaper reported from Washington.
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With inflation soaring to nearly 25 percent, and its interest rate at a 24-year-high of 17 percent, Pakistan appears to be crumbling.
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Monsoon rains, likely made worse by climate change, hammered Pakistan for months starting in mid-June, damaging or washing away 2 million homes.
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Nearly 15% of Pakistan’s rice crop and 40% of its cotton crop were lost in this year's flooding, according to officials.
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Bilawal Bhutto told a group of Pakistani media that given the situation his country is in due to floods, “it’s time that both India and Pakistan work together on the issue of climate change”.
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The devastating floods have inundated hundreds of villages across much of Pakistan’s fertile land and have transformed farmland in Sindh into two large lakes. Officials warn it may take two to six months for the floodwaters to recede
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Antonia Guterres, who recently concluded a visit to Pakistan’s flood-hit areas, had on August 30 pleaded with the international community to support the flood-torn country facing the worst floods in the past three decades.
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Saif Ullah, spokesman for the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, said each plane was loaded with about 35 tons of relief aid that would be distributed in the province by the World Food Program.
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The U.N. secretary-general landed in Sindh province on Saturday, before flying over some of the worst-affected areas en route to Balochistan, another badly hit province.
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Decades of corruption and underinvestment have led to this moment. Only significant expenditure can avoid another disaster.
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In order to lower the skyrocketing prices of vegetables in the nation as a result of the devastating floods, a prominent business chamber in Pakistan urged the government on Tuesday to provide permission to resume import of vegetables from India through the Wagah border.
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Tuesday saw a joint flash plea from Pakistan and the UN for USD 160 million to assist the nation in dealing with the devastating floods that have killed more than 1,100 people, ruined infrastructure and agriculture, and affected 33 million people, or one-seventh of the nation's population.
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Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan has caused over 1,000 deaths and extensive damage to the country's crucial infrastructure.
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Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers evacuated stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.
