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Beautiful sunset in lush green Thar desert in #Sindh, #Pakistan after heavy #rainfall. Photo by @emnpk #Monsoon2022 https://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/have-deadly-monsoon-floods-replenished.html

What the Iranian scholar Albiruni said about Hindus, echoed centuries later by Vivekananda In this excerpt from his book ‘Dharma’, Chaturvedi Badrinath examines the first ever dialogue between Islamic and Hindu thought...

Pakistan Shaheen III range is sufficient to hit targets anywhere in India. It doesn't need to test a longer range. Let's hope it is sufficient deterrence. Let's just hope there's never any need to use it. Using it would be catastrophic for all of South Asia and many nations around this...

A new survey has found an extraordinarily high level of self-confidence among Indians about being Indians. https://www.therahnuma.com/survey-finds-new-indian-exceptionalism-pride-in-being-indian/ Similar national self-belief is called “American Exceptionalism” in the US, which appears to have...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/08/stimson-poll-vast-majority-of-indians.html Vast majority of Indians, including those who oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi, believe that nuclear war is "winnable", according to the results of a Stimson Center poll released recently. They want their...

Pakistan Meteorological Department: Weekly Drought Information (15 August 2022) [EN/UR] https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/pakistan-meteorological-department-weekly-drought-information-15-august-2022-enur During last five days, more light to heavy rainfall events reported from many...

Pakistan floods kill 580 and bring misery to millions Government accused of inaction as downpours leave schools destroyed, homes ruined, crops failing and cholera on the rise https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/17/pakistan-floods-kill-580-and-bring-misery-to-millions More...

The huge Indus Basin's underground aquifers represent the biggest water storage Pakistan has. Tube wells provide bout 50 million acre feet of groundwater a year from these aquifers. They have been severely depleted. The recent floods have hopefully replenished these aquifers...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/08/have-deadly-monsoon-floods-replenished.html Pakistan has seen unprecedented rains followed by massive floods in the current monsoon season. Hundreds of people have lost their lives and tens of thousands have been rendered homeless. After the unfolding...

#India-#Pakistan nuclear war would kill 2 billion. #US-#China, 5 billion. Even a limited-scale exchange between India & Pakistan could have catastrophic consequences for global food supplies and trigger mass death worldwide. #IndiaAt75 #PakistanAt75...

#IndiaAt75 OpEd by #Indian-#American Prof Akhila Ananth: "As a Hindu, I can’t stay silent about injustices committed in India — in the name of our faith" #secularism #HindutvaTerror #Hindutva #Islamophobia #casteism #Modi #India - Los Angeles Times...

Pieter Friedrich @FriedrichPieter On 14 April, in @EdisonNJ , supporters of India’s Hindu nationalist movement paraded through town on bulldozers, the latest symbol of the #Modi regime’s genocidal, Islamophobic agenda. Mayor @SamipJoshi , will you condemn this fascist display in your town?

#IndiaAt75: #Modi is Proving #Pakistan's Case For #Partition1947. 75 years after #India split apart, the nation’s beleaguered #Muslims increasingly face the marginalization and brutal prejudice that Pakistan’s founder #QuaideAzam predicted. #PakistanAt75...

#IndiaAt75: #Modi is Proving #Pakistan's Case For #Partition1947. 75 years after #India split apart, the nation’s beleaguered #Muslims increasingly face the marginalization and brutal prejudice that Pakistan’s founder #QuaideAzam predicted. #PakistanAt75...

http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/pakistan-at-75-highlights-of-economic.html Pakistan is a young nation with a lot of unrealized potential. As the country turns 75, it is important to recognize that all basic indicators of progress such as income, employment, education, health, nutrition...

#Nuclear arsenals of #China, #India, #Pakistan are growing. But it's not an arms race—yet. Combined arsenals of China (350 warheads), India (160) and Pakistan (165) are much smaller than #US's & #Russia's but exceed #British & #French stockpiles. #Nukes...

Fortunately, the United States has finally decided to address it head-on: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, easily the largest climate bill in U.S. history, has cleared both the Senate and the House. It invests $369 billion to help get the country off fossil fuels and gives the Department of...

India at 75: How Hindu nationalism overshadows the promise of secularism India is gradually being transformed from a secular multicultural nation to a Hindu supremacist state, activists and minority groups say...

In the fiscal year 2019-2020, four coal-fired CPEC power plants generated 19 percent of Pakistan’s electricity. The 4.62 GW of coal-fired generation funded by CPEC includes the 1,320 MW Huaneng Shandong Ruyi-Sahiwal Coal Power Plant, the 1,320 MW Port Qasim Coal Fired Power Plant, the 1,320 MW...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/08/nehrus-secularism-was-aberration-modis.html As India and Pakistan turn 75, there are many secular intellectuals on both sides of the border who question the wisdom of "the Partition" in 1947. They dismiss what is happening in India today under Hindu...