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As Bangladesh struggles for stability, ‘peacemongers’ express solidarity and gear up to converge at the India-Pakistan border on Aug 14
Aug 14, 2024 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
PERSONAL POLITICALBy Beena Sarwar / Sapan News At midnight on 14 August, several hundred Pakistani and Indian peace activists plan to converge at the Wagah-Attari border with candles, placards, and...A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes
Jul 11, 2024 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
A personal tribute to Karamat Ali (19 August 1945 – 20 June 2024) Karamat Ali was many things but for me he was always the person who returned my grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the home he was...A flute, a song, and a mango tree: Sharing seeds of positivity, one step at a time
Mar 13, 2024 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Through careful grafting, a Pakistani mango tree has bonded with an Indian one at the Peace Hill Garden in Pune, India. How it made its way over is a story worth telling. And the hope is that the...The suffering continues: No relief in sight for Indian, Pakistani fishermen
Oct 04, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, News, Top Stories 0
By Jatin Desai and Beena Sarwar The last rites of Indian fisherman Jagdish Mangal Bamaniya were performed in his native village in Gujarat, India, last week – 42 days after his death,...Women authors, Partition stories, and shared histories
Aug 15, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
As India and Pakistan mark 76 years of independence from British rule and simultaneous Partition, a look at the intertwined stories and work of three young women oral historians from the region By...Pakistani woman and brother left behind in India meet for the first time, 76 years after Partition
Aug 15, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
LUDHIANA: A Pakistani woman hugged her Indian brother and broke into tears after an agonising 74 years of separation on Sunday evening at the Kartarpur corridor — a 4km physical passage between...How Noshaba became a bridge for Indians with roots in Pakistan
Mar 30, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, In Humanity's Name, News, Top Stories 0
Last July, 90-year-old Reena Chhibber Varma stood in front of a sprawling bungalow in Rawalpindi’s College Road. It was the family home she had to abandon 75 years earlier for a new...Stars behind the clouds: 20 OP Nayyar classics that never made it to the cinema
Jan 27, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Although never seen, these ghost songs still shine bright, testifying to a musical genius who was born in Lahore, 16 January 1926, and died in Mumbai, 28 January 2007 The name of composer OP Nayyar...Demands revived in India to rename Saadat Hasan Manto’s birth village after him
Jan 25, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Both Pakistan and India claim the great Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto, born in undivided Punjab on 11 May 2012, in a village that fell to the Indian side after Partition in 1947....Dying to live
Jan 25, 2023 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Following the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, an Indian-origin volunteer physician based in America shares personal experiences of working with medical camps in Sindh – and her fears for the...
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