OP and me
Author presenting OP Nayyar Nite Ayye Mehrbaan in December 2010, with a picture of the maestro on his side.

The spirit of Aman ki Asha is embodied in the strong bond between the late, great music composer from India and a Boston-based music lover of Pakistani origin


By Siraj Khan

It's 2 am in Boston and most people are fast asleep. I am in my den/office at home, singing to a long-distance caller, the door shut. My daughter Shama in the adjacent room goes to her mother, disturbed more about hearing her father singing on the phone in the middle of the night, tha ..... more




BRIEFS Tahir Malik speaking at the Lahore launch of Warriors After War; seated: Sardar Assef Ali and Khaled Ahmed

Books for peace


Two books launched on Jan 27, 2012 aim to create greater understanding and bridge the divide between India and Pakistan

"Warriors after War"


"Warriors after War" (published by Peter Wang), co-authored by Tahir Mali .....more

India, Pakistan and the Snow Leopard

It is time for India and Pakistan to demilitarise the Line of Control and make a trans-border peace park to save the Snow Leopard from extinction, writes Javed Naqi


Amongst the lesser known casualties of the conflict between India and Pakistan is wild .....more

For peace between neighbours A group photo of the students at the Jang head office  --- The News photo By Maria Kamal
Karachi

Armed with cameras, vocal chords and their artistic talent, a team of seven young Pakistani students are off to India in just two days' time. The student delegation that is heading to New Delhi also features a young poet, songwriter a .....more


Joint statement by Editors of Jang Group & Times of India

Peace between India and Pakistan has been stubbornly elusive and yet tantalizingly inevitable. This vast subcontinent senses the bounties a peace dividend can deliver to its people yet it recoils from claiming a share. The natural impulse would be to break out of the straitjacket of stated positions and embrace an ideal that promises sustained prosperity to the region, yet there is hesitation. There is a collective paralysis of the will, induced by the trauma of birth, amplified by false starts, mistrust, periodic outbreaks of violence, suspicion, misplaced jingoism and diplomatic doublespeak. Hypnotized by their own mantra, the two states are reluctant to move towards normalization until certain terms and certain promises are kept.

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People for peace

Monday, December 26, 2011
by Beena Sarwar
The Indian government's clearance of visas for 237 Pakistanis to attend a major peace convention in Allahabad from Dec 29 to Jan 1 is a welcome step, allowing the much-delayed Eighth Joint Convention of the Pakistan-India Peoples for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) to finally be held.

PIPFPD is the largest people-to-people organisation between the two countries, formed in 1994 by eminent intel

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Special Edition

55_7-03-2011_1.jpgThe News on Sunday Special Report: India Pakistan prisoners
We probably didn't need to do this Special Report. Newspaper stories don't matter when it comes to Indians in Pakistani jails and vice versa. In fact, 'vice versa' sums it up. We do to them what they do to us.

Except when the two countries decide to begin talking, yet again! This time a little before the foreign secretary level talks, some Pakistani prisoners were released by India (and vice versa must have happened) and some more were released after the talks. ....read more

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