Sir: South Asia is vulnerable to climate change and resulting disasters due to increasing economic activity, growth rate and rising demand for energy. Pakistan and India both suffered colossal losses in the recent floods. I see this as a God sent opportunity for both countries. This is an opportune moment for both nations to turn threat into opportunity by relaxing travel across the line of partition to facilitate relief and rescue work. This will serve as an assurance to the common man of both countries that they are not being treated as mere pawns in the respective politico-military armouries of the warring neighbours. The time is ripe for both countries to collaborate and partner for stable cooperation with regards to disaster management. Both New Delhi and Islamabad can help each other, one through its economic size and the other through its fertile human resources in mitigating disaster by setting up an efficient information sharing and early warning mechanism to counter all natural catastrophes. Let this incident become a catalyst for the rise of a new dawn on the Indo-Pak relationship and may peace prevail throughout South Asia.Some see the glass as half empty. I see the glass as half full!AFZAL RAHIMIslamabad