Rescue ops underway as 46 killed in J&K's Kishtwar

IANS | August 15, 2025 4:06 AM

Jammu, Aug 15 (IANS) As Army joined the rescue operations which are underway as at least 46 people, including two CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) personnel, were killed, and 167 others were rescued from mounds of rubble after a massive cloudburst led to flash floods in Chashoti in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district.

The 'failed' Marshal: Asim Munir and the militarization of Pakistan's democratic ruins (IANS Analysis)

IANS | August 14, 2025 7:35 PM

Islamabad: By the time Field Marshal Asim Munir's original term as Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff ends in November 2025, the country may have endured one of the most corrosive, destabilising, and strategically disastrous chapters in its modern history. Whether he clings to power beyond that date — thanks to a conveniently crafted legislative amendment rammed through last year — will decide if Pakistan continues its freefall into unmasked military authoritarianism, thinly dressed up as "hybrid democracy", a charade in which the political class seems all too complicit.