Let's join our hands to work for peace. http://www.indo-pak.org Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:17:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/140/58/ Days after the recent skirmishes at the Line of Control, when the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan was threatened, an alternative reconciliation was underway in Lahore. Music became the metaphor of shared ground between the two countries, challenging divides between them that can become violent. content - Articles Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:05:46 +0100 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/133/58/ Blame for the problems of Afghanistan is widespread. The Pakistanis are at fault; no, the Afghans; no, the United States. NATO isn't stepping up to the plate. Is it the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Pakistan's intelligence service that is pulling the strings? Is President Hamid Karzai powerless, or is he boosting the warlords, or is he a puppet for Americans, or all three? But a large part of the problem is being missed. There is talk about the U.S.-Pakistan-Afghanistan tripartite, but it's the wrong focus. The focus should be on the Afghanistan-Pakistan-India triangle. content - Articles Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:11:47 +0100 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/132/58/ My parents are from Delhi, and my wife's from Hyderabad (Deccan). They settled in Lahore and Karachi respectively, and I was brought up in Pakistan (mostly in the Himalayan North West Frontier, and Lahore for medical education). Recently we took our 2 children to India and Pakistan (the first time back for me after 18 years in the U.S.). content - Articles Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/86/58/ Since 1947, Kashmir had been offered toffees and chocolates to stop its tears as one does this to a small kid weeping. No one realized that the agony of Kashmiris lies deep inside their hearts. Since last 17 years of insurgency, approximately 100,000 people have been killed. Thousands of young boys and men between the ages of 15-65 were taken to the custody for investigation by security forces but their return remains uncertainty for their families. content - Articles Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:04 +0100 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/126/58/ We have a three-hour stop over at Lahore airport on our way back to Delhi from Islamabad. I am excited about going back home, but, at the same time, am sad at the thought of leaving Pakistan. I don’t know when, if at all, I can come back here, if I can ever again meet some of those wonderful people whom I almost instantly bonded with in my short week-long visit to the country. I wonder if I will again be fortunate enough to get a visa to visit Pakistan. content - Articles Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.indo-pak.org/content/view/129/58/ “They are like my two eyes,” says the fabled Pakistani folk singer Reshma, speaking of India, the country of her birth in 1947, and the country she has lived in since infancy. Similar emotions are echoed by another lauded singer, the Mumbai-based Seema Anil Sehgal, known as the ‘Bulbul (nightingale) of Jammu and Kashmir’. Last May (2004), she dedicated her CD, recorded at the first ever concert in Mumbai on the poetry of Allama Iqbal, the man credited with the idea of Pakistan, to “India-Pakistan friendship”. content - Articles Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100