There was a nip in the air and Kolkata was still shrouded in grief. A little more than 24 hours ago, the city had paid its last respects to its dear departed leader. Lacs and lacs of people had waited patiently in serpentine queues and dotted every inch of space on the roads where Basu’s last journey had meandered through. It was an emotional connect that hadn’t resulted out of being shepherded by any diktat. In many ways, it was a similar kind of an emotional connect on Saraswati Puja that got a huge crowd to gather on the Nicco Park Big Lawns to witness yet another historic venture — the Aman Ki Asha project — a move towards peace between India and Pakistan that has been initiated by The Times of India and the Jang Group of Pakistan. As band members of Euphoria and Strings together took the stage, the frenzied crowd knew that their spontaneous turnout was an indication of being on the right side of history
Friday, January 22, 2010
Amin Hashwani, businessman and president, Pakistan India CEO's Business Forum, who moderated the meetings of the Asha IT Committee from India and Pakistan over the past w
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By Abid Hussain For Nandita Gurjar, Senior Vice President, Infosys Technologies, her first trip to Pakistan has been quite a memorable experience but with one .....more
By Moayyed Jafri LAHORE
Chairman CII National Committee on IT and ITeS Ganesh Natarajan, who is also head of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Info .....more
By our correspondent Karachi
A nine-member delegation of Indian IT CEOs arrived here on Thursday as part of the Aman Ki Asha peace initiative jointly launch .....more
By our correspondentKARACHI: Pakistan's tennis ace Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, the National Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will be visit .....more
By our correspondentKARACHI: Closer business ties between the information technology companies in Pakistan and India can create thousands of jobs and help bring down .....more
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The 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 release....read more
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For the past 2 years the Jang Group and Geo have been working on a project of great national interest; one that we hope will help usher in an era of peace and prosperity in the country and indeed, in the region. And one that hopefully all Pakistanis can be proud of.
The Jang Group has entered into an agreement with the Times of India Group, the largest media group of India, to campaign for peace betw
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