Islamabad, Aug. 17 -- Pakistan's Prime Minister's Coordinator for Information on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Affairs, Ikhtiar Wali Khan, has expressed grave concern that as many as 1,000 people may have died in the recent flash floods in KP, ARY News reported.

Wali said he had personally visited the flood-hit areas and witnessed large-scale devastation. "Entire villages have been wiped out. In Buner's Chagharzi area, massive destruction has taken place, while the village of Bashoni has completely disappeared from the map," he said as quoted by ARY News.

"Some of the rocks carried by the floodwaters were bigger than trucks. Houses along the riverbanks have vanished without a trace, and whole families have been swept away with no one to even ...