Pakistan and India on a knife edge as the world watches

THE grim war talk between Pakistan and India continues unabated as the major and smaller powers use the bloody conflict as a testing ground to evaluate the hi-tech weapons of war, unaware or brazenly defiant of the fact that the world is one step from a nuclear conflagration.

- FAROUK ARAIE | Johannesburg

Faceless powers and their advisors are setting the scene for a military clash that will wipe out every vestige of civilisation. Their military rhetoric is spine-chilling, as they engage in military provocation. These delusional warmongers have forgotten the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the gruesome consequences of using nuclear weaponry. Many seasoned and polished writers expounded their views on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, but sadly, many failed to expound on the monumental disaster that 21st-century hi-tech weapons inflicted on innocent civilians across the expand