LAHORE – In a catastrophe of historic proportions, unprecedented monsoon floods have swept through Pakistan’s Punjab province, leaving a trail of destruction that has affected over two million people. The deluge, triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall and coordinated water releases from dams in upstream India, has overwhelmed the mighty rivers of the region—the Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi—all of which are in high flood simultaneously for the first time in nearly four decades.