<div style="text-align: justify; "><b>At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said today.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall between June and September every year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is vital for the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region of around two billion people -- but it also brings landslides and floods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Fifty deaths have been reported in different rain-related incidents all over Pakistan since the start of the monsoon on June 25," a national disaster management official told AFP, adding that 87 people were injured during this period.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The majority of the deaths were in eastern Punjab province, and were mainly due to electrocution and building collapses, official data showed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the bodies of eight children were recovered from a landslide in the Shangla district on Thursday, according to the emergency service Rescue 1122's spokesman Bilal Ahmed Faizi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said rescuers were still searching for other children trapped in the debris.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Officials in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, said it had received record-breaking rainfall on Wednesday, turning roads into rivers and leaving almost 35 percent without electricity and water this week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Meteorological Department has predicted more heavy rainfall nationwide in the days ahead and warned of potential flooding in the catchment areas of Punjab's major rivers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The province's disaster management authority said Friday it is working to relocate people living along the waterways.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scientists have said climate change is making seasonal rains heavier and more unpredictable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last summer, unprecedented monsoon rains put a third of Pakistan under water, damaging two million homes and killing more than 1,700 people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Storms killed at least 27 people, including eight children, in the country's northwest early last month.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistan, which has the world's fifth largest population, is responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to officials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, it is one of the most vulnerable nations to the extreme weather caused by global warming.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kha</div>