Karachi
After 20 years of separation from his family, Dr Khalil Chishty finally landed in his hometown, Karachi, on Wednesday night. The atmosphere at the airport was electric, as scores of media persons stood in position, waiting for the 80-year-old Pakistani doctor to emerge from the passenger lounge.
Chishty, who reached Islamabad from New Delhi on Tuesday, was arrested in a murder case in the Indian state of Rajastha ..... more
HYDERABAD: Aman Ki Asha finally brought back Dr. Khalil Chichti to his homeland from India after two long decades but there many other families and lives that still remain divided on both sides of the border.One such case is of Humeri Khaskheli, a resident of Hy .....more
KARACHI: Virologist Dr Khalil Chishti, who spent 20 long years away from home in Indian jail, will be reuniting his family shortly in his hometown Karachi, Geo news reported.According to reports, Dr Khalil Chishti has landed in Karachi from Islamabad. He is acco .....more
Some feedback about the Aman ki Asha Indo-Pak Economic Meet last week, and suggestions about taking forward the peace agenda
Fantastic meeting! I do hope that we stop living under the influence of foreign powers! Stop playing the blame game and becomi .....more
Joint statement by Editors of Jang Group & Times of India
Peace between India and Pakistan has been stubbornly
elusive and yet tantalizingly inevitable. This vast subcontinent senses
the bounties a peace dividend can deliver to its people yet it recoils
from claiming a share. The natural impulse would be to break out of the
straitjacket of stated positions and embrace an ideal that promises sustained
prosperity to the region, yet there is hesitation. There is a collective
paralysis of the will, induced by the trauma of birth, amplified by false
starts, mistrust, periodic outbreaks of violence, suspicion, misplaced
jingoism and diplomatic doublespeak. Hypnotized by their own mantra, the
two states are reluctant to move towards normalization until certain terms
and certain promises are kept.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Beena Sarwar
The Indian government's clearance of visas for 237 Pakistanis to attend a major peace convention in Allahabad from Dec 29 to Jan 1 is a welcome step, allowing the much-delayed Eighth Joint Convention of the Pakistan-India Peoples for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) to finally be held.
PIPFPD is the largest people-to-people organisation between the two countries, formed in 1994 by eminent intel
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The News on Sunday Special Report: India Pakistan prisoners
We probably didn't need to do this Special Report. Newspaper stories don't matter when it comes to Indians in Pakistani jails and vice versa. In fact, 'vice versa' sums it up. We do to them what they do to us.
Except when the two countries decide to begin talking, yet again! This time a little before the foreign secretary level talks, some Pakistani prisoners were released by India (and vice versa must have happened) and some more were released after the talks.
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When I'm PM, will work to resolve Kashmir issue: Imran Khan - The Times of India
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