Cross-border smogism

Thanks to its ISI, Pakistan’s smoking might be made injurious to India’s well being

Islamabad has but to handle New Delhi’s issues about cross-border terrorism emanating from its area. But the chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, has proposed what she calls ‘smog diplomacy’ between the 2 nations as a method of constructing a bridge of cooperation and mutually helpful coexistence.

With Lahore having emerged because the world’s most polluted metropolis – a rating keenly contested by Delhi-NCR – the Pakistani minister has been quoted as saying, on the subject of the farm stubble burning which is a significant supply of air pollution, “The winds don’t know there is a border in the middle. Until both Punjabs come together we won’t be able to tackle the issue of smog.” 

Smog diplomacy might be seen as a brand new twist to the people-to-people dialogue or twin-track diplomacy. 

At the Supreme Court’s directive, New Delhi has formulated a system of fines for farms which resort to stubble burning, with penalties ranging between ₹5,000 and ₹30,000, relying on the scale of the holding. 

It stays to be seen if Islamabad adopts related measures to additional smog détente between the adversarial neighbours. But Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), recognized for its ingenuity in sponsoring cross-border terrorism in opposition to India, would possibly add cross-border smogism to the bag of its actually soiled tips division. 

Flipping the Indian imposition of fines for stubble burning, the company would possibly supply inducements for such combustion, the smoke of which, with assistance from giant extrusion followers, might be blown throughout the border to get into the eyes – or higher nonetheless the lungs – of India’s physique politic in addition to its physique anatomical.

From exporting cross-border terrorism Islamabad might export cross-border smogism, a cost tough if not unattainable to show, in that Pakistani smog can be indistinguishable from Indian smog.

Indeed, ISI might go the entire hog, or the entire stalk, and encourage not simply stubble burning however the burning of entire sheaves of grain, provided courtesy its dragon-fire-breathing buddy, China. 

And ISI might change its title to Intensely Smogify India.

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