An online video about Sikhs looking after a mosque built by his ancestors inspires
the writer to re-connect with his past across the border
By Syed Saadat Hussain Naqvi
I was just fourteen years old when the disturbances started in Amritsar, only 20 miles from my paternal village Chattaurgarh adjoining Fatehgarh Churian. We shifted to our maternal village Rattar Chattar to ensure safety. Alas there was no safety to be had anywhere and ultimately w ..... more
Adi GodrejI had the opportunity to lead an 80-member high-level business delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to Pakistan in May 2012 for the 2nd India-Pakistan Economic Conference, held as part of the Aman ki Asha peace campaign, join .....more
RIP Asghar Ali Engineer
A legacy of peace, rational thinking,
communal harmony
Asoft spoken, gentle and unassuming person, always clad in a simple white kurta-pajama, the late Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer had become an institution, a legend and .....more
Time to douse the fire
"Pakistan-India relations have been strained for decades due to a number of well known issues - Kashmir, water, sporadic skirmishes at the Line of Control, and the recent Sarabjit and Sanaullah episodes that have added fuel to t .....more
An innovative idea connects Indians and Pakistanis with 'the other side'
"It saddens me that we have neighbours that we can't even go visit." "The perception is that they're the bad guy. But when you actually meet them you realise they're just lik .....more
Congratulating Nawaz Sharif on the electoral win of his political party, Aman ki Asha's plea to both governments continues to be: "Stay the course". Let the people reap the dividends of peace
By Reema Abbasi
The day when a Pakistani can tak .....more
By Yudhvir RanaJATTI UMRA: As Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) emerged as the largest
party in the recently held elections in Pakistan, his ancestral village in India, Jatti Umra
erupted in jubilations.
The residents o .....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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Articles
The world has seen worse cases of animosity
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
by
Ammar Shahbazi
Cultural and linguistic bonds of a civilization are stronger than its religious bonds, says professor Naeem ur Rehman Farooqi, former Pro Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University. "So the connection between India and Pakistan is inherent and intrinsic, something that no political and military power can ever erode"
In an interview with Aman Ki Asha, he said that the history of a civilisation cann
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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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