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India-Pakistan activists urge both PMs to release each others’ fish workers and women prisoners from jails

India-Pakistan activists urge both PMs to release each others’ fish workers and women prisoners from jails

Aug 12, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Various civil society organizations and prominent citizens of India and Pakistan have jointly urged Indian and Pakistani PMs to release and repatriate all arrested  fish workers and women...
Pakistan’s “best kept secret” has implications for peace for South Asia

Pakistan’s “best kept secret” has implications for peace for South Asia

Jul 22, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 0

The first half of 2020 has been lively, turbulent and difficult. Coronavirus has changed our world, no matter whether you’re in India, Pakistan or Britain. And since May, the murder of George...
Give peace a chance: India, Pakistan peace activists want their countries to discuss people’s language more than state language

Give peace a chance: India, Pakistan peace activists want their countries to discuss people’s language more than state language

Jul 13, 2020 Articles, Featured Top Stories, In Humanity's Name, News, Top Stories 0

Taking forward the ‘Guftagu band na ho’(Let talks not stop) initiative to ‘Mulaqat jald ho’(let us meet soon), peace activists from India and Pakistan want the narrative to be changed for the...
In the US, Indian, Pakistani doctors united against racism

In the US, Indian, Pakistani doctors united against racism

Jun 29, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, In Humanity's Name, News, Top Stories 0

American-Pakistani and Indian physicians, already in the frontlines of the Covid19 battle, step up in the war against a longer-running pandemic With the ongoing healthcare crisis exposed by the...
Commemorating K. A. Abbas

Commemorating K. A. Abbas

Jun 26, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

June, the birth month of the acclaimed writer and film producer Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, will culminate with an online session on K. A. Abbas: Khayalaat ka Saudagar (The Thought Merchant), aimed at...
A woman’s ‘dua’ against domestic violence, marital rape in Pakistan echoes in India

A woman’s ‘dua’ against domestic violence, marital rape in Pakistan echoes in India

Jun 24, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

An adapted version of Allama Iqbal’s ‘Lab pe aati hai dua’ in Pakistan finds resonance in India By Divya Goyal More than a century after Muhammad Iqbal’s immortal Bachche Ki Dua...
Making friends with sworn enemies

Making friends with sworn enemies

Jun 09, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Moving past enmity to the affinity of ancestry Born into a refugee family that came to Delhi a few months before partition, from what is now Pakistan, I grew up hearing my grandparents’ stories of...
Pakistan plane crash survivor with roots in Amroha, related to Kamal Amrohi of ‘Pakeezah’ fame

Pakistan plane crash survivor with roots in Amroha, related to Kamal Amrohi of ‘Pakeezah’ fame

May 23, 2020 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 0

The PIA plane which crashed on Friday has only two survivors — one of whom is Bank of Punjab top executive Zafar Masud. His roots are in western Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, India, and he belongs to the...
The idea of Irrfan

The idea of Irrfan

May 21, 2020 Awards, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

A subjective reading of a great actor by a non-serious-film-buff In December 2012, Naseeruddin Shah came to Lahore, not for the first or last time. He did his two days of theatre — extraordinary is...
Flame of faith: Salute to Dr Mubashir Hasan from Gandhi’s grandson

Flame of faith: Salute to Dr Mubashir Hasan from Gandhi’s grandson

Apr 28, 2020 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Obituary, Top Stories 0

Tribute to the veteran politician, peace activist, and scholar Dr Mubashir Hasan passed away at his residence in Lahore, aged 98 This tribute to Dr. Mubashir Hasan should have been written much...