Pakistan grants visa to Sika Khan; brothers separated in 1947 to visit in Pakistan village
Jan 29, 2022
Bathinda: The residents of village Phulewal in district Bathinda of Indian Punjab and Bogran in Faisalabad of Pakistan Punjab, are excited for the reunion of two siblings separated 74 years ago. The...
Ninth Indo-Pak Peace Calendar launch: Activists and academics call to “open visas”
Mar 01, 2021
This year marked the first virtual launch of an annual calendar featuring children’s paintings themed on peace between India and Pakistan. With the coronavirus pandemic halting in-person...
A woman’s ‘dua’ against domestic violence, marital rape in Pakistan echoes in India
Jun 24, 2020
An adapted version of Allama Iqbal’s ‘Lab pe aati hai dua’ in Pakistan finds resonance in India By Divya Goyal More than a century after Muhammad Iqbal’s immortal Bachche Ki Dua...
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Mar 30, 2020
A poetic tribute to Dr Mubashir Hasan in Lahore by Dr Syeda Hameed, his niece, protegee, and comrade-in-peace, in Delhi Woh dekha jaye kab ye zulm dekha jaaye hai mujh se(How shall I bear to see...
Golf tournament brings together Indians and Pakistanis in America
Sep 20, 2019
By Neel Kamal and Beena Sarwar The world’s largest India-Pakistan golf tournament will take place in Los Angeles early October, even as relations between nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours India...
PERSONAL POLITICAL: Rest in peace, comrade Kutty. The struggle continues
Aug 31, 2019
Early Sunday morning in Karachi, a little over a month after his 89th birthday on 18 July 2019, B. M. Kutty slipped into the ever after. Lifelong activist, trade unionist, political worker,...
Pakistan released 360 Indian prisoners in April
May 01, 2019
Pakistan’s release of the latest batch of 60 Indian prisoners on Sunday takes the number of such prisoners released as part of a goodwill gesture to 360 in April. The released prisoners...
Peace body demands urges India, Pakistan to show restraint, avoid “war like situation”
Feb 26, 2019
The Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD) has issued a statement about the escalating tensions between the two countries, urging them to exercise restraint. Text below....
Peace group appeals to Prime Minister Imran Khan for Hamid Ansari’s release
Dec 11, 2018
The Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace & Democracy through a press note of 11 December 2018, has appealed to the Pakistani authorities and Prime Minister Imran Khan, to release Mohammad...
A cricketer prime minister and hope for a religious corridor
Aug 17, 2018
As Pakistan’s cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan takes oath as prime minister, the Sikh community the world over wonder whether they will ever be granted easy access to their holy sites in...
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