(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…
(Ayesha Mahnoor) Introduction In July 2025, the Indian Parliament’s Monsoon Session erupted into a fiery debate over Operation Sindoor, India’s aggressive military strikes on May 7, 2025, targeting alleged terror sites in Pakistan following the April 22 Pahalgam attack. For instance, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hailed the…
(By Tahir Masood) On a breezy July afternoon in Birmingham, when the roar of veteran cricket legends was expected to rekindle nostalgia and sportsmanship, a conspicuous silence echoed from one camp. India—the world’s largest democracy and cricket’s financial epicentre—pulled out of the World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025 fixture against Pakistan. The stated reason? “Geopolitical…
