Sabir Shah

LAHORE: Netherlands today is an undisputed global leader in flood defense, spending up to 1.3 billion Euros annually for diligently maintaining a sprawling network of sloped dikes, elevated ridges, windmills or polders, ditches, canals, concrete barriers and embankments to harness the raging waters, research shows. Moreover, artificial dwelling hills or Terpins have also been built to increase the land elevation.

LAHORE: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, who took over as country’s 11th Army Chief on November 29, 2022, has completed 1,000 action-packed days as head of country’s army. He had assumed charge amid tough political and economic challenges, and at a time when country was still facing the raging monster of terrorism. Not only did the Field Marshal take decisions regarding crackdown on crimes, smuggling and hoarding, he also initiated diplomatic efforts to enhance country’s global image.

LAHORE: Some 70 days after a passenger train, Jaffar Express, was hijacked by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Indian terror proxies unleashed another barbaric attack, targeting innocent school kids in the far-flung Khuzdar district this time around. Restive Balochistan has now been struck over 300 times by terrorism, sectarianism and linguistic violence during the last 25 years, research shows.