Author : Shabbir Hussain

The way ahead

The way ahead

Peace initiatives will raise the urge for peace and the need for the allocation of more resources to the cause By Shabbir Hussain While relations between India and Pakistan face their share of ups...
Thaw at last in Pak-India relations

Thaw at last in Pak-India relations

THIMPHU: The prime ministers of Pakistan and India have agreed to normalize bilateral relations stalled after Mumbai attacks, saying the only way forward is through dialogue. Prime Minister Yusuf...
Fisherfolk hold rallies in Pakistan,

Fisherfolk hold rallies in Pakistan,

Karachi: In a joint move to work together, fishermen from Pakistan and India took out rallies on Wednesday in Karachi and Porbandar, Gujrat of India, against the detention of fishermen by both the...
Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Karachi: Fisherfolk activists from both India and Pakistan along with members of India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners and members of various civil society organizations met in New...
Aman Ki Asha Dialogue on ‘A Common Destiny’

Aman Ki Asha Dialogue on ‘A Common Destiny’

LAHORE: Indian and Pakistani delegates at an Aman ki Asha conference agree on various key issues that the governments of both countries would do well to consider – not to mention taking forward...
Grouping together for change

Grouping together for change

Early in the morning on January 1, 2010, Prayaag Kasundra, an information technology (IT) graduate in Ahmedabad read an unprecedented front page advertisement in the Times of India. “LOVE...
‘Interim pact’ on Kashmir was for 15 years: Kasuri

‘Interim pact’ on Kashmir was for 15 years: Kasuri

Says water management was listed under joint mechanism; Kashmiris were given independence in economic, social, political affairs; present govt aware of pact, agrees to it By Babar Dogar  ...
Unlikely conciliator

Unlikely conciliator

Perceptions of the relationship that exists between India and Pakistan often pass through several filters before they become fully formed – and not all of the filters are conducive to a clearer...
Hindi-Urdu class at UCLA: A tale of two languages

Hindi-Urdu class at UCLA: A tale of two languages

By Avni Nijhawan Every student of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has heard numerous boasts about UCLA’s diversity, but few have seen concrete examples of intergroup communication...
Infusing new blood into the relationship

Infusing new blood into the relationship

“Humanity is a strand on which we are going to help each other in our time of need and build on our similarities” By Saher Baloch Even as Rotarians on either side of the border consider...