Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.

Officials say rescuers have recovered dozens more bodies from collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding.

Across Pakistan, monsoon rains that began in late June have been heavier than usual, killing at least 645 people. Four hundred of those deaths were in the northwest alone, where narrow valleys and river-carved gorges funnel rainwater into sudden torrents.

Jammu and Kashmir Police have attached the properties of a Pakistan-based Kashmiri doctor who is said to have joined militancy and a terrorist accused of involvement in the Pahalgam attack. Officials said the action was part of its crackdown on the "terror ecosystem".

Most of the deaths were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan. At least 74 homes have been damaged, while a rescue helicopter crashed during operations, killing its five crew.

The land, measuring 3 kanals and 18 marlas (roughly 0.5 acre), belonged to Mohammad Maqbool Dar, the father of Pakistan-based militant Asif Maqbool Dar, who was designated a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2023 under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

India strongly rebutted Pakistan’s allegations of sexual violence in Jammu and Kashmir at the UN. The Indian diplomat highlighted Pakistan’s own poor record on crimes against minority women, calling for justice and survivor support.

Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 200 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have said, as scores of people remain missing.

That vote has never been held. India and Pakistan fought another war, in 1965, and a limited conflict, in 1999, over Indian-controlled Kashmir. Insurgency in Kashmir