Officials say flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing.

Floods triggered by cloudbursts and monsoon rains have killed at least 250 people with many more still missing, authorities in Pakistan and India have said. A helicopter aiding the relief effort also crashed.

Rescuers began a third day of scouring the mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwestern Pakistan, while others looked for missing people in the Kishtwar district of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Communities in mountainous areas of India and Pakistan are mourning the loss of hundreds of lives due to recent flash floods, with many families holding funerals as the search for those still missing continues.

The floods came so fast that many people could not leave their homes, one eyewitness said, as forecasters warn of more rain to come.

Pakistan will create a new force in the military to supervise missile combat capabilities in a conventional conflict, apparently a move to match neighbouring arch-rival India.

Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 400 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have said, with scores of people still missing.

India Champions reportedly boycotted their matches against Pakistan Champions in the 2025 World Championship of Legends. A player has now revealed the reason why India legends refused to play Pakistan at the last moment.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan that India will punish its neighbor if there are future attacks on India as he marked 78 years of independence from British colonial rule. Modi’s remarks Friday come three months after nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan engaged in four days of intense fighting,

COLUMN. While it is important not to conflate the two, certain similarities are evident in the trajectory of these two seemingly interminable crises, historian Jean-Pierre Filiu writes in his column.

"Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade," India 's External Affairs Ministry said in a public statement on its website. "It is also regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country."

Pakistan chief selector Aqib Javed mentioned the volatile ‘situation surrounding India and Pakistan’ ahead of the Asia Cup match in Dubai.