Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue
Apr 28, 2010
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...
Joint Indo-Pak moot calls for addressing held fishermen’s issue
Apr 28, 2010
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...
Over 30 organizations call for prompt repatriation of crossborder prisoners, including bodies of those who died in custody
Aug 11, 2022
Over 30 organizations around Southasia and beyond have endorsed a joint statement about cross-border prisoners initiated and coordinated by Southasia Peace – www.southasiapeace.com calling for...
Time for a new beginning?
Jun 08, 2022
By Zahra Khalid & Purushendra Singh In order to achieve high economic growth, India and Pakistan have to work towards economic interdependence Now that Pakistan has appointed a trade minister...
How climate change is linked to the tragedy of a Bengali-Pakistani fisherman incarcerated in India
Oct 29, 2021
The tragedy of a fisherman who died of Covid-19 while imprisoned in India, far from his family in Karachi, highlights the link between geopolitics and climate change – issues being deliberated at...
Three months after death, Pakistan fisherman’s body finally reaches home
Sep 24, 2021
Amir Hamza, a Pakistani fisherman arrested in Indian waters by coast guards around four years ago, was lodged in a prison at Bhuj in Gujarat. While his family in Karachi hoped that one day he would...
India-Pak Relations: What the Kafkaesque Case of a Repatriated Cattle-Herder Tells Us
Feb 01, 2021
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...
India-Pakistan activists urge both PMs to release each others’ fish workers and women prisoners from jails
Aug 12, 2020
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...
Give peace a chance: India, Pakistan peace activists want their countries to discuss people’s language more than state language
Jul 13, 2020
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...
Save lives, release prisoners and stop LoC war, peace group urges India, Pakistan
Apr 21, 2020
India and Pakistan must immediately “release and repatriate prisoners not charged under serious (heinous) crime cases from each other country’s prisons keeping in mind deadly COVID-19...
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