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Indus Water Treaty under threat (Part – III)

Indus Water Treaty under threat (Part – III)

Water, War and Peace By Khalid Hussain ISLAMABAD: The Indus Waters Treaty 1960 (IWT) that settled the sharing of the Indus waters was signed by Pakistan President Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister...
Perceptions, perceptions

Perceptions, perceptions

Dear Beena,  (April, 22 2010) I know your Berlin adventure was stymied by, of all things, a volcano in Iceland. Who’d have thought it? Somebody more eloquent than I could probably find some...
Thaw at last in Pak-India relations

Thaw at last in Pak-India relations

THIMPHU: The prime ministers of Pakistan and India have agreed to normalize bilateral relations stalled after Mumbai attacks, saying the only way forward is through dialogue. Prime Minister Yusuf...
Fisherfolk hold rallies in Pakistan,

Fisherfolk hold rallies in Pakistan,

Karachi: In a joint move to work together, fishermen from Pakistan and India took out rallies on Wednesday in Karachi and Porbandar, Gujrat of India, against the detention of fishermen by both the...
Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Karachi: Fisherfolk activists from both India and Pakistan along with members of India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners and members of various civil society organizations met in New...
Aman Ki Asha Dialogue on ‘A Common Destiny’

Aman Ki Asha Dialogue on ‘A Common Destiny’

LAHORE: Indian and Pakistani delegates at an Aman ki Asha conference agree on various key issues that the governments of both countries would do well to consider – not to mention taking forward...
Grouping together for change

Grouping together for change

Early in the morning on January 1, 2010, Prayaag Kasundra, an information technology (IT) graduate in Ahmedabad read an unprecedented front page advertisement in the Times of India. “LOVE...
Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue

Karachi: Fisherfolk activists from both India and Pakistan along with members of India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners and members of various civil society organizations met in New...
Third International Peace Festival 2010

Third International Peace Festival 2010

Eminent singers, performers, writers, journalists and political activists from South Asia and Canada are gathering at Mississauga Ontario on June 5th, 2010 for Third International Peace Festival...
‘Interim pact’ on Kashmir was for 15 years: Kasuri

‘Interim pact’ on Kashmir was for 15 years: Kasuri

Says water management was listed under joint mechanism; Kashmiris were given independence in economic, social, political affairs; present govt aware of pact, agrees to it By Babar Dogar  ...