India-Pakistan activists urge both PMs to release each others’ fish workers and women prisoners from jails
Various civil society organizations and prominent citizens of India and Pakistan have jointly urged Indian and Pakistani PMs to release and...
Pakistan’s “best kept secret” has implications for peace for South Asia
The first half of 2020 has been lively, turbulent and difficult. Coronavirus has changed our world, no matter whether you’re in India, Pakistan...
Give peace a chance: India, Pakistan peace activists want their countries to discuss people’s language more than state language
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...
In the US, Indian, Pakistani doctors united against racism
American-Pakistani and Indian physicians, already in the frontlines of the Covid19 battle, step up in the war against a longer-running pandemic With...
Commemorating K. A. Abbas
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...
A woman’s ‘dua’ against domestic violence, marital rape in Pakistan echoes in India
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...
Making friends with sworn enemies
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 plane crash survivor with roots in Amroha, related to Kamal Amrohi of ‘Pakeezah’ fame
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...
The idea of Irrfan
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....
Flame of faith: Salute to Dr Mubashir Hasan from Gandhi’s grandson
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....
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