Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.

Officials say rescuers have recovered dozens more bodies from collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding.

That vote has never been held. India and Pakistan fought another war, in 1965, and a limited conflict, in 1999, over Indian-controlled Kashmir. Insurgency in Kashmir