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Ceasefire agreement widely hailed
Feb 28, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
The largest and oldest people-to-people organization in the region, the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, is among the many welcoming the recently announced agreement...
Bacha Khan, the “Frontier Gandhi” celebrated at Lahore Literary Festival
Feb 23, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 0
The Pukhtun social reformer and political leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, affectionately known as Bacha Khan (King Khan) and the “Frontier Gandhi”, is revered far beyond his native Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
India-Pak Relations: What the Kafkaesque Case of a Repatriated Cattle-Herder Tells Us
Feb 01, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
That a poor man ends up spending years in jail due to bureaucratic delays points to a larger issue. But Ismail Sama’s repatriation also gives cause for some hope. The story of an Indian man...
When a Punjabi and a Bihari united to turn music into magic
Jan 17, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Poet Corner, Pyaar Border Paar, Top Stories 0
O.P. Nayyar – January 16, 1926–January 28, 2007 January is unofficially “O.P. Nayyar month”. Aman Ki Asha commemorates the great composer every year with a piece by his spiritual...
Two-day women-led Indo-Pak Peace Summit to be held this weekend
Jan 15, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
A two-day women-led Indo-Pak Peace Summit kicks off this weekend to celebrate heritage, brainstorm solutions for peace in South Asia, and channel the energy of women and youth towards developing...
Aligarh alum hold condolence meeting for Indian, Pakistani communities of North America
Jan 08, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
The year 2020 will be remembered for the toll taken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like millions around the globe, expatriate Indian and Pakistani communities in the USA and Canada were also hit by the...
Expat Pakistanis and Indians celebrate Faiz in Boston
Jan 05, 2021 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Poet Corner, Top Stories 0
Prominent singers send in messages and songs; Mayor of Worcester city presents Moneeza Hashmi with Key-to-the-City award and proclaims 20 November as Faiz Ahmed Faiz Day The Covid-19 pandemic has...
A film for the children, a message in compassion, a warning against war
Dec 21, 2020 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, In Humanity's Name, Top Stories 0
“The ‘us vs them’ ideology is hurtling us down a chaotic road” – filmmaker Vikram Gupta What happens when two boys are caught in a growing conflict between their neighbouring families? The...
“Guftgu band na ho” – peace activists say quest for peace is vital for progress
Nov 05, 2020 farhanahmed Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
By Neel Kamal in Bathinda Going ahead with their campaign for the peace process to continue through people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan, the Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace...
“Peace between India and Pakistan makes good environmental sense”
Oct 27, 2020 farhanahmed Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Talking peace and media in South Asia Whenever people from India and Pakistan meet, it’s like a reunion of long-lost college friends. Excitement runs high, and voices are raised a pitch higher out...
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