Assessments

During the 2025 monsoon season, Pakistan experienced severe flooding across multiple provinces, with particularly significant impacts in Punjab. Heavy rainfall and flash floods caused widespread damage to lives, infrastructure, and livelihoods, prompting a large scale humanitarian…

Between October and December 2025, IOM deployed 9 border monitors (BMs) at the specified BCPs. At Torkham and Chaman, BMs are stationed at the return point where returnees are waiting to cross into Afghanistan near the…

The Climate Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) is an initiative led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and implemented through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme to better understand how climate-related hazards influence human mobility in Pakistan.…

Between July and September 2025, IOM deployed 10 border monitors (BMs) at the specified BCPs. At Torkham and Chaman, BMs are stationed at the return point where returnees are waiting to cross into Afghanistan near the…

Introduction Forced Displacement Survey The Forced Displacement Survey (FDS) is UNHCR’s flagship household survey programme, designed to standardize, streamline, and build upon the existing UNHCR survey landscape to produce high-quality and timely data on people forced to flee.…

Key Highlights The RNA was conducted from 8 to 18 September covering 1,928 Mouzas in 18 flood affected districts in Punjab. The assessed districts include Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Chiniot, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Hafizabad, Jhang, Kasur, Khanewal, Mandi…

Key Highlights 1. The floods have affected 1.57 million with 604,000 people in need of assistance across ten districts. Swat, Buner, and Shangla report the highest numbers of affected populations. Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced, including…

1. Context update post flood Between late June and mid-August 2025, Pakistan endured one of the most destructive monsoon seasons in recent decades. A combination of intense rainfall, flash floods, and localized cloudbursts devastated large swathes of…

The 2022 floods submerged one-third of Pakistan. Caused by extreme rainfall at a time of year when Indus River levels were at their highest due to melting snow in Pakistan’s mountainous north, the effects of the…

1. Background & Context Between 14–15 August 2025, unprecedented cloudbursts and intense monsoon rains triggered severe flash floods across multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Buner was the worst-affected district, with catastrophic loss of life and large-scale…