Pakistan Resolute, but Climate Unstable

Even when we come to deal with  the fact that the global temperature might increase by up to 2 degrees C by the end of the century, its the events that are going on in our ‘friendly neighboring’ country of Pakistan that seem to make us feel hotter. All of us are aware of the so called successful Swat Operations in the North-Western Frontier Province, but how many of us are really aware of the attacks on Military and Civilian populations taken up by those Islamist Militant groups. These were those very groups that Pakistan seems to have built for proxy wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir. What a Shame!! Pakistan might have made a strong resolve to battle extremism and militancy, but I keep on wondering how long are they willing to fend off the  Taliban and the Al Qaeda at the expense of  those numerous Bomb attacks.

I am watching the India vs NewZealand warm up match at Lords, and the term ‘WarmUp’  has significantly caught my attention. A little bit of reading here and there did help me understand that the World, thanx to Global Warming, might be facing some morbidity and mortality issues, especially those with respect to vector-borne diseases like those insects and pathogens who feel at home at warmer temperatures.  What are we going to do  when access to clean water will be compromised by severe droughts? And when more intense monsoon events such as cyclones and floods stare at our faces? Theory would suggest that a global policy framework at every level possible might do the trick…but……what about funding and institutional capacity for anticipating the effects of these vagaries of the climate? India might not have advanced monitoring systems like the US does, but a sound disease and monitoring scheme at least at the national level should help. Lets see what the newly elected UPA does about this issue at hand.

I sincerely hope India perform well in the T20 world cup this year. O this remins me of a funny incident….when India were crowned the World T20 champs in the first T20 world cup, 2007…Ravi Shastry actually said..”And India have been crowned the  TT champions….”. I found it hillarious, he saying TT instead of T20….