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A school girl’s plea for peace

A school girl’s plea for peace

Dec 21, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

“The meaning of my name ‘Aman’ is peace. I am sure that there must be some Shanti across the border thinking the same way,” writes a sixth-grader This Children’s Day, after finishing my...
Bollywood heavy-weights laud Pakistan’s removal of Indian films’ ban

Bollywood heavy-weights laud Pakistan’s removal of Indian films’ ban

Dec 20, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Famous Bollywood actors Priyanka Chopra, Kajol and Anil Kapoor welcomed Pakistani cinema owners’ decision to end over two-month long ban on screening of Bollywood movies. Pakistani cinema owners...
We need more such news

We need more such news

Dec 19, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

Indian doctors give Pakistani girl new lease of life Zeenia, a two-and-a-half year old girl from Pakistan diagnosed with a bone marrow disease, got a new lease of life in India. Bengaluru-based...
Stories of co-existence and multiculturalism are all the more important today – Fauzia Minallah

Stories of co-existence and multiculturalism are all the more important today – Fauzia Minallah

Dec 12, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

A Mumbai-based teacher and peace activist talks to a like-minded teacher, artist and filmmaker in Islamabad whose work takes up concerns around diversity, conflict, and violence Fauzia Minallah is a...
A time for dialogue, not confrontation

A time for dialogue, not confrontation

Nov 30, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

At a time when skirmishes and casualties along the Line of Control are the worst since the 2003 Ceasefire, the forthcoming “Heart of Asia” conference is a beacon of hope that India and...
Need to counter the tension at the border

Need to counter the tension at the border

Nov 28, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

The likely attendance of Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Sartaj Aziz, at the upcoming meeting of the ‘Heart of Asia’ in India next month provides an opportunity to break...
“We just want peace and that’s what the women have come out to demand”

“We just want peace and that’s what the women have come out to demand”

Nov 22, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Excerpts from a Pakistani author’s piece about her visits to Kashmir and the people’s longing for peace from her essay “As the LoC Heats Up, Border Villages Fear the Repeat of a Deadly...
Sikh pilgrims delighted with Pakistani hospitality

Sikh pilgrims delighted with Pakistani hospitality

Nov 22, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Pakistan’s embassy in New Delhi issued more than 3,300 visas to Indian Sikhs to participate in the 548th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, at his birthplace in...
Remembering Haider “jigar”: India, Pakistan must talk peace

Remembering Haider “jigar”: India, Pakistan must talk peace

Nov 07, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

By Partha Banerjee and Beena Sarwar Last year around this time, we were saddened by the death of our poet and journalist friend Haider Rizvi in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct 29, 2016. Haider had lived in...
Indians and Pakistanis unite for a mutual goal of peace

Indians and Pakistanis unite for a mutual goal of peace

Nov 03, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 2

Last week, over 150 activists in India and Pakistan took part in a photo campaign to call on world leaders to never use nuclear weapons. From New Delhi to Islamabad, Bangalore to Karachi, and...