Torrential rains across Pakistan's north have caused flooding and landslides that have swept away entire villages, leaving many residents trapped in the rubble and scores missing.

Heavy monsoon rains have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan, killing at least 300 people.

SD Sanap, a scientist with the IMD's Pune office, said such cloudburst events were becoming more frequent in the western Himalayas, which run across India and into Pakistan, but pinning the rise on a...