The 2005 Kashmir Earthquake, Global Rebuilding Efforts, and Pakistan’s Path to Resilience in 2025
(By Ayesha Mahnoor) Introduction: The Dawn of Destruction On a crisp autumn morning, October 8, 2005, the Himalayan foothills awoke not to the gentle call of birds, but to the earth itself unleashing its fury. At 8:50 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake—measured on the moment magnitude scale—struck with its epicenter just 19 kilometers…