Talk for a better tomorrow : India and Pakistan in SCO Meet
As many leaders from member countries of SCO are participating in its meeting, there must be many important agendas, particularly in this phase of time when the world is facing…
India-Pakistan Peace Initiative
“There is enough negativity. We should remember the positive, for a better future”: India-Pakistan and Transformative Nostalgia
The independence of the Indian subcontinent from British Rule was accompanied by a partition on religious lines. One of the largest migrations in human history, the partition witnessed unimaginable violence…
India-Pakistan Peace And Friendship March Organised From Mansa To Atari-Wagha Border
The Socialist Party (India) recently organized a India Pakistan Peace and Friendship March during 9 to 14 August, 2024 from Mansa to Atari-Wagha border in Amritsar District. Since the Modi…
Students from India and Pakistan jointly created a calendar for World Peace
At a time when geopolitics is all around conflicts and war, particularly due to the Russia-Unkraine and Insrale-Palestine conflict, and the world peace seems to be unstable, students in India…
Modi Could Squander an Unprecedented Chance at Normalizing India-Pakistan Ties
Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalization and trade with India—but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is failing to seize the chance When Narendra Modi returned…
Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan: Future Prospects
The debate surrounding the hostile relations between India and Pakistan dates back to the time of their independence. Despite various efforts made throughout history to establish peace between the two…
Peaceworkers at Kartarpur For Spirituality and Peace
A 10-member delegation of Aaghaz-e-Dosti from India travelled to Kartarpur Sahib in New Year with an objective to offer prayers for world peace and to strengthen spiritual connect between the…
The Need for Opening Sharda Peeth cross LoC Corridor
Recently, the Home Minister of India spoke about his government’s desire towards opening of Sharda Peeth cross LoC Corridor on similar lines of Kartarpur Corridor. Few times back, there were…
Motorcyclist Revives India-Pakistan Friendship
The Forbidden Truth of People and Cultures: Abrar Hasan (‘Wild Lens’ Youtube), Pakistani Motorcycle Tourist Revives the Interwoven Passions : Mamma Your “Bismillah” Lives with Me Legacy of British Colonialism…
Peace Supporters Write To MEA For Cross Border Prisoners
At a time when J&K political leaders meeting with PM, NSA is attending meeting at SCO alongwith NSA Pakistan, Ceasire promise has been kept by Pakistan and India, Peace activists…
I A Rehman : The torchbearer of Human Rights Movement in Pakistan
The passing away of Mr I A Rehman who was also fondly referred as Rehman Saheb, founder of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a truly people's Commission on Human Rights…
Two decades of an Indo-Pak collaborative experiment – Pakistan- India- People’s- Forum- for- Peace-and-Democracy
In September 1994, a few Indian and Pakistani social activists and professionals gathered together in Lahore, and came out with a statement stating their intention to set up a forum…
The welcome thaw in India-Pakistan relations is backed by Pakistan’s army too
“A nation at peace and a region in harmony are thus essential prerequisites for attainment of national security in the true spirit. No national leaders of today can ignore these…
On relation with India, Pakistan army chief is ready to bury hatchet
Pakistan's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Thursday for arch rivals India and Pakistan to "bury the past" and move towards cooperation. He expressed that the U.S. had…
India-Pak ceasefire! Surprise
Every conscientious person in the world strives for peace and harmony among the neighbours. Kashmir has been crying for it for decades. They are the worst sufferers of the hostile…
Indo–Pak Tension: can it be mitigated?
In recent years, tensions mounted between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers in South Asia. The 2016 Uri attack, the 2019 Pulwama attack on a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian…
India and Pakistan are arch enemies. And they both have nukes
The Global Nuclear Rat Race The past few decades have seen strides being made in all aspects of life – from sticks and stones to weaponry. The extreme case of…
How Pakistan’s Military Created Rift Between Imran Khan and Modi?
During his stint in power as Pakistan’s prime minister until July 2017, Nawaz Sharif had nurtured cordial working relationship with India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and…
BJP, Pakistan and the Drag of Political Posturing
History is replete with examples of political grandstanding by arrogant leaders. At the same time it’s also full of landmark opportunities that they came across to make major course correction.…
What Option Is There Before India And Pakistan But For Friendship And Peace?
The India Pakistan Friendship and Peace March from Ahmedabad to Nada Bet during 19 to 29 June, 2018 concluded successfully even though Ahmedabad Police detained the marchers for about 3…
Citizens Of J&K Jointly Urge India And Pakistan To End Hostilities
In a joint calling attention petition, over 130 eminent citizens of the divided State of Jammu and Kashmir urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan…
India Pakistan: The Coming War
Photos of grieving women and old men hugging the casket soldier killed on the Jammu and Kashmir border skirmish are appearing on the front pages of newspapers almost every…
Indo-Pak Confrontation: A Suicidal Militaristic Adventure
Official reactions to the recent incidents on the Indo-Pak border ( killing of Indian jawans, the death sentence passed on an Indian national by the Pakistan judiciary , the incessant …
A Wish For Peace
“The partition of 1947 should not have divided the people of the subcontinent. Today, they look divided because Pakistan and India have been denying the logic of geography, history and…
Fifth Indo-Pak Peace Calendar Launched In Toba Tek Singh
Toba Tek Singh: On January 8, Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a joint Indo-Pak Friendship initiative, launched its 5th Indo-Pak Peace Calendar in Toba Tek Singh in collaboration with Youth for Human Rights Pakistan.…
Indo-Pak Conflict And Kashmir
(Why should the fate of Kashmiris be tied up with the establishment of Indo-Pak friendship?) There are some very common refrains in regard to the solving of the most intractable…
Voices for Peace – Kia Scherr Speaks
As part of our aim to embed critical thinking and peace, Aaghaz-e-Dosti through interview series – “Voices for Peace” features inspiring peace personalities who have worked significantly for Indo-Pak Peace.…
Soldiers, Development And Environment Demands Indo-Pak Peace, Co-Operation
In a note sent to me few days ago, a retired captain of Indian army wrote that soldiers are not enemies of each other. They just follow instructions and take…
Emotionalism Of Kashmir Conflict
The recent Kashmir uprising, furious speeches at UN, threatening statements by politicians and the subsequent escalation of tensions on ‘Line of Control’, has brought yet another conflict wave with regard…
Dispel The Spectre Of War: It Is Doable
India's 29 September cross-LOC strike was conducted professionally, as expected of the apolitical army of the Indian Republic. Pakistan's predictable response is denial of its ever having happened. It could…
Banning A Glue That Holds India And Pakistan Together Is Self Defeating
Recently Indian Motion Producers Association (IMPPA) took a decision to ban Pakistani artists and technicians from working in Indian films until normalcy returns. The pretext of the ban is…
Lack Of Journalistic Ethics, Now Blinded By Nationalism
The context of nationalism in India has lately been supercharged- post India’s ‘Surgical Strike inside PoK’ in view of repeated Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks in India – the latest of…
Between The Buddhists And The Yuddhists
Time has come to unite against the Yuddhists in India and Pakistan and to generate a strong public message that the sensational mainstream media, the corrupt army officials, and the…
The War Hysteria!
The persons creating the War Hysteria should first get educated about the consequences of a present day war especially between the nuclear armed countries!
Two Peoples Bound By Water : An Open Letter To Our Fellow Indians On Indus Water Treaty
Over the last week or so, there is an increasingly shrill demand coming from the hawkish 'foreign policy advocates' and the right wing war mongers that as a "fitting reply"…
India – Pakistan Tension Continues To Mount After Terrorists Attack Indian Army Camp
Tension between nuclear armed South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan continues to mount after terrorists on Sunday night attacked an army camp in Baramulla in Northern Kashmir killing constable Nitin…
The Looming India/Pakistan Crisis – Who To Blame?
The short answer to the above question is, both! Recent bout started with Uri, the Indian border post at the Kashmir front. 18 Indian soldiers were killed by across-the-border assailants.…
The Dangers And Importance Of Being A ‘Facebook Revolutionary’
I wash my face and come back, back to the battle that has been raging— that I have been raging. No, its not a physical battle, but a virtual one…
Surgical Strikes And After
Indian Army conducts surgical strikes. The Government thumps its chest. The media debates that this is the way to respond. The media channels compete debating this issue and try to…
A Case For Third Party Mediation On Kashmir
Kashmir is in international news once again. The killing of Burhan Wani followed by fresh mass uprising has provided a fresh impetus to the issue locally as well as…
No Diplomatic Efforts To Diffuse Tension Between India And Pakistan
It was a day of quiet on the India-Pakistan front except for the sporadic gunfire exchanged between the two sides in the Akhnoor sector of the international border in Jammu…
India-Pakistan Relations Remain Tensed, Evacuation In Border Districts
The India-Pakistan relations remain tensed after India's surgical strikes across the Line of Control Wednesday night. India admitted that one of its soldiers is in Pakistan's custody. The army says…
Indian And Pakistani Citizens Speak Out Against War
We, the people of India and Pakistan, stand in solidarity with each other to speak out against war in any form because, in war, we are all losers regardless of…
Dear PM, The Solution To Kashmir Lies In Peace And Not War
My Dear Prime Minister, I am constrained to write to you, because of the recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir, the attack on our air station in Pathankot , and…
Bring Peace To The Sub-Continent Through Dialogue
Pakistan- India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) PIPFPD expresses its concern over the growing tensions between India and Pakistan following militants’ attack on strategically important army base in…
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