If India, Pakistan can cooperate so well to keep people apart, why not cooperate for peace, ask peace activists at virtual assembly calling to revive dialogue
Aug 17, 2020
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A virtual gathering of peace activists from both East and West Punjab across the border of India and Pakistan turned into a night-long assembly on the eve of their respective Independence Days. The...
Indo- Pak teacher-student duo collaborate on dance for peace
Aug 13, 2020
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Dubai-based team jointly release video to spread message of peace ahead of Independence Day A Dubai-based teacher-student duo have collaborated over a dance to promote peace among Indians and...
India-Pakistan activists urge both PMs to release each others’ fish workers and women prisoners from jails
Aug 12, 2020
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Various civil society organizations and prominent citizens of India and Pakistan have jointly urged Indian and Pakistani PMs to release and repatriate all arrested fish workers and women...
Pakistan’s “best kept secret” has implications for peace for South Asia
Jul 22, 2020
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The first half of 2020 has been lively, turbulent and difficult. Coronavirus has changed our world, no matter whether you’re in India, Pakistan or Britain. And since May, the murder of George...
Give peace a chance: India, Pakistan peace activists want their countries to discuss people’s language more than state language
Jul 13, 2020
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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 Pakistan want the narrative to be changed for the...
In the US, Indian, Pakistani doctors united against racism
Jun 29, 2020
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American-Pakistani and Indian physicians, already in the frontlines of the Covid19 battle, step up in the war against a longer-running pandemic With the ongoing healthcare crisis exposed by the...
A woman’s ‘dua’ against domestic violence, marital rape in Pakistan echoes in India
Jun 24, 2020
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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 after Muhammad Iqbal’s immortal Bachche Ki Dua...
Making friends with sworn enemies
Jun 09, 2020
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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, I grew up hearing my grandparents’ stories of...
Pakistan plane crash survivor with roots in Amroha, related to Kamal Amrohi of ‘Pakeezah’ fame
May 23, 2020
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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 Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, India, and he belongs to the...
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