
Ill-prepared for Disasters
The fresh quake has come as an important reminder to us to become more mindful of our vulnerability to the natural disasters.
The fresh quake has come as an important reminder to us to become more mindful of our vulnerability to the natural disasters.
The layoffs in tech sector are a source of global unease and reflect an underperforming global economy. And for the economy to stabilize and the rampant inflation to be reigned in, the Ukraine war has to end immediately.
There’s a need for a balancing act between promoting tourism and ensuring that the lives of the local residents aren’t impacted. One remedy for this is to better regulate the traffic.
All we can hope for now is that the elections are announced earlier than later, and September-October will be an ideal time for the exercise.
Pakistan is not only facing a political turmoil. Over the last two years, the country has careened from crisis to crisis: political, economic and on a security front. Pakistan economy is on the verge of a default with agreement with the IMF far from being concluded.
The war’s bigger challenge for the existing world order is still very much intact. Russia has thrown down the gauntlet at the west. And this is not the first time Russia has done it.
In Kashmir too, climate change has led to considerable changes in weather patterns. Triggering alarm bells is the slowly shrinking glaciers that are the source of the Valley’s water bodies.
All major powers even when they are on opposite sides of geopolitical divide want to be friends with India. On the other hand, Washington’s priorities with India are no longer regional in their nature but their scope is the larger geo-politics.
But it is still possible that in the interest of regional peace, the two neighbours need to transcend their differences and talk to each other. This alone will change the situation in the region for the better.
As its action in Amshipora case has once again proved, Army has an inbuilt legal mechanism to punish the erring personnel.
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