Afghanistan has been shaken once again, this time not by war or insurgency, but by nature’s fury. A powerful earthquake struck the rugged eastern provinces, killing nearly 800 people and injuring more than 2,800.

Villages in Kunar and surrounding areas were flattened, mud-brick houses collapsed in seconds, and families already living on the edge of survival found themselves homeless overnight.

For a nation already battling political instability, poverty, and isolation, the devastation is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe. India has acted swiftly and compassionately.

Within hours of the quake, New Delhi dispatched emergency relief: 1,000 family tents to Kabul and 15 tonnes of food supplies that were........

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