Dubious: Such underhand dealings have earned the country the dubious distinction of being the epicentre of militancy.

Solemn: Solemn declarations cannot be a substitute for actions.

Tangible: consequently, there has been a tangible escalation in terrorist attacks in Balochistan in recent months.

Ripple: rippled the provincial administration.

Brazen: The attacks have been getting more brazen in recent weeks

Toll: taking a huge toll on lives

Tenous: tenuous ceasefire

appeasement

public uproar

The emerging nexus of transnational militant groups has rendered the situation more alarming.

Ferocity: TERROR has struck with renewed ferocity

They turned out instead to be absurdly inflated. Russian military adventurism has come a cropper on almost every front,

Relented

It also does not want to be singled out as a stumbling block in Western assistance for Kyiv’s resistance. Last week, it agreed to supply 14 of its coveted Leopards, in “lockstep” with allies such as Poland, the UK and US.

impugned

through a legally constituted platform in order to effectively quell the threat of the burgeoning TTP insurgency in KP that threatens to spill into other parts of the country.

prominence as hostile states increasingly caused ruptures in rival countries by deploying proxies linked to local issues.

In the past, the police leadership felt that controlling terrorism and insurgency was not within the ambit of police responsibility.

We are all confident that our armed forces, with their exemplary record of vanquishing the TTP in the recent past, have the will and capacity to decimate these elements and restore peace.

A besieged federal coalition government is petrified and unable to confront and tackle this challenge.

These acts of terror have engendered a sense of insecurity, with negative ramifications for a country beset with economic woes and political instability

The last few weeks have witnessed audacious attacks on KP police stations

Undeterred

extortion money

To underscore their nefarious intentions,

culminated in

The government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which has already been supplying plenty of military aid to Ukraine, much of it surreptitiously, finally caved in last week after relentless bullying by its Nato allies

Eventually, there will be elections, but any interference from other institutions would mean that the results will want legitimacy or permanence.

ample proof of the fact

. The vagaries of climate change and glacial melt

Where the rains once provided respite they now bring only more misery and destroy all that lies in the paths of rivers.

The middle class writes articles such as this one, accursed with the unwanted gift of knowing that things are not about to get better, that a country whose wealthy pay no taxes, whose politicians are so deeply addicted to grift a

relentless

It is distressing to think how the auxiliary businesses that rely on the mills would also be affected.

The current political set-up provides little hope for those who would like a return to some semblance of stability

burnout but grouchiness.

oblique acknowledgement

litmus test

Gen Z

well-nigh

depreciate

The reality is the US and Pakistan do have interests that are enduring.