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Severe floods left 2,500 people dead, including 296 from Punjab. More than 9.3 million people were affected, and 350,000 families rendered homeless, including refuge huts. A report by the
Pakistani government stated that 12,672 villages in north Pakistan were washed away, 160,000 cattle drowned
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561:"Pakistan - 1992 Flood Damage Restoration Project"
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298:"Climate change catching Pakistan unprepared"
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445:"Over 900 in Pakistan Dead in Severe Floods"
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16:Natural disaster in India and Pakistan
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296:Amjad Bashir Siddiqi (17 June 2019).
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559:Bank, The World (June 1, 1998).
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