Pakistan floods before and after: what Punjab looks like after worst-ever floods

Photos show villages destroyed after flooding killed at least 1,100 people

Displaced people have put up makeshift tents along elevated motorways and railway tracks in Pakistan's Balochistan province to escape the flooded plains. AFP

A man and his children wade through floodwaters in Charsadda, Pakistan. AP

Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Jaffarabad, a district of Balochistan province. AP

Children are reflected in a mirror near their flood-hit home in Charsadda. AP

People launch a wooden boat into rising floodwaters in Mehar, Pakistan. Reuters

People affected by floods move to higher ground in Dadu district, Sindh province, Pakistan. EPA

Displaced people take shelter on an elevated motorway to escape rising floodwaters. EPA

People affected by floods wait for relief in Dadu district, Sindh province. EPA

A girl sits amid the rubble of her damaged home in Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP

A sick child struggles to eat in Charsadda after his family fled their home due to flooding. AP

A man rides his donkey-drawn cart during a heavy rainfall in flood-hit Dera Allah Yar town in Balochistan province. AFP

Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur, a city in Balochistan. AP

A boy pushes a motorbike after it stalled in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Reuters

Children affected by floods wait to receive food in Nowshera district. EPA

A man throws water out of his flooded home in Nowshera. EPA

People assess the damage to their home in Nowshera. EPA

A family salvages items from the ruins of their home, which was destroyed by flooding, in the Shikarpur district of Sindh province. AP

The flooding has affected more than 33 million people in a country of 220 million. AP

People salvage items from a damaged building in Kalam, Swat Valley. AP

Hotels are surrounded by floodwaters in Kalam. AP

Displaced people sit on a tractor with their belongings as they make their way to higher ground in Shikarpur. AFP

A child sits on a dry ground at a makeshift camp in Shikarpur. AFP

People jostle for drinking water delivered by a municipality lorry along a flooded road in Sohbatpur, Balochistan. AP

Satellite imagery has revealed the devastating impact of flooding in Pakistan that has left about a third of the country under water.

Heavy monsoon rains caused flash floods along the Indus and Kabul rivers that have swept away homes, roads, crops and bridges.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the flooding “the worst in the history of Pakistan” and estimated it could cost at least $10 billion to recover from the damage.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres echoed his assessment and described the floods as a "colossal crisis" before a planned visit to the country in September.

Indus River bursts its banks in Rajanpur

Images released by space technology company Maxar Technologies show the levels of destruction along the banks of the Indus River, which runs almost the length of the country.

Flash floods along the banks of the river caused by monsoon rains have devastated areas of the southern province of Sindh and the eastern province of Punjab.

Villages and farmland in Rajanpur and Gudpur, both in Punjab, have been almost entirely submerged by the river.

Farmland destroyed in Punjab province

An estimated 33 million people have been affected by the floods.

This amounts to around one in seven people in a country of 210 million.

The flooding has destroyed more than a million homes and left millions displaced.

Many of those displaced have been forced to find their own shelter, while about 500,000 people are living in organised camps.

Villages cut off in Gudpur and Rajanpur

The UN launched a formal $160 million appeal on Tuesday as Pakistan reels from the floods.

Several foreign countries have already began providing aid.

The UAE has begun operating an air bridge to transport humanitarian aid including supplies, shelter material, food and medicine.

China and Turkey have also dispatched humanitarian aid flights in recent days.

Mr Sharif has promised funds would be spent transparently and said any delay in aid “will be devastating for the people of Pakistan."

- with AP inputs