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Time for an icebreaker India and Pakistan are not just foreign countries for each other, they are practically alien, with little to engage on in various spheres. The intellectual(ब द ध क) and emotional partition of the two countries is even more stark today, exactly two years since PM Narendra Modi landed in Lahore to attend his then counterpart, Nawaz Sharif s grand daughter s wedding. Indian and Pakistani societies have learnt to look away from each other culturally. The process of this partition, which began in the 1950s, when poets and historians began to construct separate histories, is now complete, as Pakistani students learn a language more Arabic than Urdu, of a polity that begins in 1947, and about an ancient history that relates to foreign invaders from the country s west more than the shared history with its east Abida Parveen and Ghulam Ali no longer able to perform in India, Pakistani actors barred from work in Indian films, and a television network stopping the very popular telecast of Pakistani soap operas. Sporting events are fewer, and there is little healthy rivalry when Indian and Pakistani teams do meet- Winner vs Loser
Continue Visas are still granted for pilgrimages on both sides, but for all other travel they are tightly controlled and granted as exceptions to the rule. Seldom have two countries which share language, idiom, music and religion been this closed to each other, including in times of war Bilateral trade, which had developed a low but steady normal, could be reduced even further now Indian development of Chabahar port in Iran circumvents Pakistan by sea, and an air cargo corridor to Afghanistan replaces land cargo entirely Effectively, India is willing to double its trade costs and spend billions of dollars extra in order block out Pakistan, and Pakistan is willing to risk its trade route to Afghanistan and Central Asia, but won t allow Indian trade to Afghanistan come through Wagah Only increased trade is that of trading re at the Line of Control (LoC) After the 2003 ceasefire had been implemented, villagers on either side of the LoC had returned to their homes and rebuilt schools along the area. Terrorist Groups
Continue India has long opposed third party interventions, but the lack of dialogue with Pakistan is imposing just that, with every dispute between While both India and Pakistan have recently appointed new High Commissioners to Islamabad and Delhi, respectively, there is very little hope of any fresh initiative at this point Two countries now being taken up at global forums: United Nations, Financial Action Task Force, International Court of Justice, and World Bank for the Indus Waters Treaty. With the U.S. drawing India into its Afghanistan policy, China s stakes in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, The subcontinent is becoming an area of contestation U.S., India, and Afghanistan ranged on one side; and Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban on the other India s decision to stay out of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meet in Pakistan has also complicated its standing as a regional leader
Continue While alternative such as The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal (BBIN) initiative and the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represent some parts of the region, they cannot replace the whole, and The region becomes easier to fragment, as China has managed to do by making inroads into Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Growing distance between the people of both countries will be much more difficult for their governments to bridge in the future Even without bilateral talks, the two sides can explore simple engagements on the environment, medical tourism, energy pipelines and electric grids in the interim. In a world where connectivity is the new currency, and multiple alignments are replacing polar geopolitics, it is hard to justify the disconnected space that New Delhi and Islamabad are hurtling into.
Today- Question- 150-250 words Critically analyse the nature and scope of India s conflict with Pakistan.
Technology alone isn t the solution To tackle air pollution, we also need to reimagine and rethink our use of urban space Day 2 of final Test match between India and Sri Lanka in Delhi, game complaining of breathing difficulties. For the first time in Test cricket, a match was disrupted because of air pollution Indian captain Virat Kohli later asked publicly what Indians are doing about it There has been a lot of fingerpointing at the Delhi and Central governments for not being pre pared for the dreadful air quality episodes during north India s winter season No government can eliminate air pollution within the span of a single term in office Alliance govt is alone culpable business, the media, and the middle and upper classes are equally to blame. Explaining urban air pollution Urban air pollution refers largely to the mixture of gases and small particles in the lowest hundred or so metres, a result of human activity associated with vehicles, road dust, domestic cooking and heating, power plants and other industries nearby, diesel generator sets, and the open burning of waste.
Continue In Delhi, in recent weeks, concentrations of particulates below 2.5 thousandths of a millimetre in size, which settle deep in the lungs, were 22 times the World Health Organisation (WHO) standard. In November 2016, they were 16 times the standard. Polluting gases are mostly colourless and odourless and include carbon monoxide, oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, ozone, and volatile organic compounds. Monitoring air pollution requires well calibrated and spatially well represented networks of measurement equipment, which do not exist in most parts of India. Using the best available technologies for various sources is absolutely essential Many cities in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas have shown how this can be done It is not ethically appropriate to delay the resolution of deadly air pollution in cities for an entire generation that would suffer greatly in the interim
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