All the main link roads including Karakoram Highway in the Gilgit Baltistan region have been closed for three weeks due to flash floods and landslides, the markets of GB are facing severe shortage of medicines and other necessary items, Geo News reported Tuesday.
Almost all bridges have been washed away including four of Karakoram Highway due to heavy rains and landslides.
The flood currents engulfed in their lap more localities in GB, causing to cut off ground links leading to the area for the last 22 days.
Government officials said that 947 kilometers roads are destroyed, over 87,0000 people from 371 villages have been affected by the flood disaster and torrential rains.
Heavy rain of 150 millimeter was recorded first time in the history of Gilgit Baltistan.
The electricity and water supply still not resumed in various areas.
The closure of Karakoram Highway also sparked food, diesel and gas shortage in Gilgit Baltistan.