Fishermen handed over to India
May 27, 2014
Aman Ki Asha
In Humanity's Name, News
Pakistan on Monday handed over 151 Indian nationals to their government at Wahga Border as a goodwill gesture by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The prisoners, including 150 fishermen, were released...
At Ziauddin Hospital, healing touch from India a click away
May 19, 2014
Sidrah Roghay
In Humanity's Name, News
By Sidrah Roghay Karachi: Patients who enter room 103 at the Ziauddin University Hospital in Clifton are introduced to a virtual world. Here, patients and doctors talk via webcam. Sulaiman Saleem, a...
Techie returns a free man 8 years after drifting into Pakistan
Oct 26, 2013
Bilal Farooqi
In Humanity's Name, News
Yudhvir Rana & Bella Jaisinghani, TNN MUMBAI: Vile Parle resident Hansaben Parmar’s agonizingly long wait for her son finally ended on Thursday. Eight years after Bhavesh strayed across the...
Editorial
Jan 27, 2013
Aman Ki asha
Editorial, In Humanity's Name, News
Just when relations between India and Pakistan were on the verge of normalcy, something untoward happened that suspended the gains of the last few years, at least momentarily. A disturbing thought,...
Indian SC orders release of Dr Khalil Chishti
Dec 12, 2012
Bilal Farooqi
In Humanity's Name, Milne Do, News
NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court (SC) has issued orders to release Pakistani microbiologist Dr Muhammad Khalil Chishti. Khalil Chishti, 80, was allowed to go home on ‘compassionate...
Three Pakistanis serving life in Indian jail to be freed next year
Oct 19, 2012
Bilal Farooqi
In Humanity's Name, News
Jan Khaskheli Karachi Collective efforts by Pakistani and Indian civil society members and human rights activists have borne fruit as three Pakistani fishermen languishing in an Indian jail for 13...
Sarabjit Singh
Oct 19, 2012
Bilal Farooqi
In Humanity's Name, News
The Lahore High Court has allowed Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh to meet his lawyer on humanitarian grounds, in response to a petition filed by Advocate Sheikh against Punjab home secretary and IG...
CASE UDATES: Cross-border prisoners
Oct 17, 2012
Bilal Farooqi
In Humanity's Name, News
Bhavesh Parmar Indian prisoner Bhavesh Parmar Kantilal, 32, who had strayed across the border by train in a disturbed state of mind in 2007, completed his awarded sentence in 2010 but remains...
Indian activists urge govt to return Pakistani prisoner’s body
Sep 28, 2012
Aoun Sahi
In Humanity's Name, News
Karachi: Indian activists are pressuring their government to promptly release the body of Nawaz Ali Jat, the 32-year old Pakistani fisherman prisoner who died in India on September 8, 2012....
46 fishermen to reach Wagah today
Sep 28, 2012
Our Correspondent
In Humanity's Name, News
Our Correspondent Karachi The Indian government on Thursday released 46 Pakistani fishermen out of the promised 51. These fishermen will be received by a delegation of the Fishermen Cooperative...
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