Srinagar, Sept. 2 -- As a devastating earthquake struck Afghanistan on Monday, claiming dozens of lives, displacing thousands, and ravaged infrastructure, we in Jammu and Kashmir mush confront a haunting question: Have we learned anything from past calamities? The recent deluge, echoing the 2014 floods, is an example of persistent vulnerability of Jammu and Kashmir, an ecologically fragile region at the forefront of climate change. But to truly gauge our preparedness, we must revisit the cataclysmic 2005 Kashmir earthquake. On October 8, 2005, a 7.6-magnitude quake struck, with its epicenter near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, but its wrath extended to Uri and other parts of Jammu and Kashmir. In Uri, entire villages...