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Need to counter the tension at the border

Need to counter the tension at the border

The likely attendance of Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Sartaj Aziz, at the upcoming meeting of the ‘Heart of Asia’ in India next month provides an opportunity to break...
“We just want peace and that’s what the women have come out to demand”

“We just want peace and that’s what the women have come out to demand”

Excerpts from a Pakistani author’s piece about her visits to Kashmir and the people’s longing for peace from her essay “As the LoC Heats Up, Border Villages Fear the Repeat of a Deadly...
Sikh pilgrims delighted with Pakistani hospitality

Sikh pilgrims delighted with Pakistani hospitality

Pakistan’s embassy in New Delhi issued more than 3,300 visas to Indian Sikhs to participate in the 548th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, at his birthplace in...
Remembering Haider “jigar”: India, Pakistan must talk peace

Remembering Haider “jigar”: India, Pakistan must talk peace

By Partha Banerjee and Beena Sarwar Last year around this time, we were saddened by the death of our poet and journalist friend Haider Rizvi in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct 29, 2016. Haider had lived in...
Indians and Pakistanis unite for a mutual goal of peace

Indians and Pakistanis unite for a mutual goal of peace

Last week, over 150 activists in India and Pakistan took part in a photo campaign to call on world leaders to never use nuclear weapons. From New Delhi to Islamabad, Bangalore to Karachi, and...
When boundaries blur: A strange kind of home-coming

When boundaries blur: A strange kind of home-coming

Over the last month, India-Pakistan relations, always fraught at the best of times, have seen one of their periodic lows. A terrorist strike in Uri has catalysed the usual sabre-rattling, with people...
Voices of peace oppose war in India and Pakistan

Voices of peace oppose war in India and Pakistan

Activists and artists call for peace as tensions grow between the neighbouring countries.Saif Khalid When 24-year-old Aliya Harir left her home in Islamabad, Pakistan, for India on September 27,...
Indo-Pak peace group launches “No to War’ campaign

Indo-Pak peace group launches “No to War’ campaign

The oldest and largest people-to-people lobby group in the region, Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), in its national committee meeting held in Jammu on October 22nd...
From India with love

From India with love

When diversity of ideas is limited to two polarised views and there is one accepted truth, it is time to voice dissent On a bus to Mullanpur I found the bus heading to Moga parked outside the bus...
Banning cross-border cultural collaboration only strengthens extremists

Banning cross-border cultural collaboration only strengthens extremists

In today’s interconnected world, whether it’s appreciating music and film or fighting polio, we increasingly share our joys and sorrows The latest casualty of the ongoing confrontation between...