1,294 dead in Pakistan's worst floods: official

Alamgir Khan, Chief Engineer of FFC, said that the report was compiled with the help of survey by the respective provincial authorities.

The FFC reports are considered as the most reliable, though bit slow in compilation.

Earlier media reports suggested that over 1,600 people were killed and more than 5,000 injured due to the floods, hitting different parts of all provinces of the country.

The government report also said that at least 3.6 million people have been homeless.

The figures of affected people are being estimated differently by every department. Pakistan's federal minister for information Qamaruz Zaman Kaira told media that minimum 12 million people had been affected while the United Nations considered it more than 15 million.

According to the flood commission report, as many as 415,862 houses have been destroyed or partially damaged.

The commission said that at least 90,618 houses have been destroyed or damaged in Punjab province, 172,110 houses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 19,619 in Balochistan, 1,432 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, 2,336 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 122,798 in Sindh and 6,357 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir so far.

Minimum 2,250,409 acres of cropped and 2,698,041 acres areas have also been affected due to floods and rains, the report said.

The floods also affected 4,885 villages in various parts including 1,527 in Punjab, 581 in KP, 2,584 in Balochistan and 193 in GB, the minister said, Xinhuanet reports.

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