Exchange Siachen Madness for Mountain Peace

Glaciers can also be made secure by the use of common sense. It is for opinion-makers in India and Pakistan to tell their respective governments to stop ruining the future of our water supplies and our weather system.

India-Pakistan talks: the endless cycle

The two countries agreed to set up a six-member panel to counter terrorism; A nuclear safety agreement was signed; However, no progress took place on reducing troops in Kashmir and in Siachen.

A cliché from Nawab Din’s Story

Today at the age of 107, the aging but exceptionally agile Nawab Din is literally fighting a lonely battle to achieve what the celebrated poet and last emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India Bahadur Shah Zafar could not.

Wapsi (The Returning)

Review and Interview with filmmaker Ajay Raina ... In the times of yet another thaw in the relationship between India & Pakistan, an Indian ’Lover Of Cricket’ manages to go across to the other side of the ’Line of Control’ (LOC

Train from Pakistan, 2004: The Return

Final preamble to an epilogue on a tribute that became a travelogue accused of being a monologue.

On my way...

Aptly titled ‘Challenges and Opportunites in South Asia – A Youth Perspective,’ the conference brought together a multitude of ideas, beliefs, opinions, voices...it brought all of us together as people.

Does Wagah Have to be This? Or Could it be...

Why then it denies and overwrites the expectations and imaginations of people with a well-synchronized ritual of hatred?

Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: A détente?

In the context of Pakistan and India the peace and prosperity of over two thirds of the world’s population is at stake. Can we credibly rely on deterrence?

What’s the Taj Mahal like from the inside? And Other Stories

Despite coming all the way from Bangalore to Lahore to debate, all six of us at the hall that morning were nervous at the thought of being cross examined by 40 schoolgirls

Trade, can it Herald Peace?

Even at the height of the Kargil war, India was importing sugar from Pakistan, and regimes on either side of the border had a tough time dealing with this fact, in the light of the nationalist fervor.

Train to Pakistan 2004: The Journey Outbound

Attari International attracts more flies than all the Punjabs put together could have.

Let Cricket Inspire India and Pakistan

Politics, by its nature, is just the opposite of Cricket. Stalwarts of the art of politics, old and new, are at one that it’s not a craft for gentlemen.

The Indo-Pak Symbiosis: Brothers or Neighbors?

A new idea is always born in an unreceptive environment. The adversaries and opponents are numerous, the supporters, few.

Bombay, personally

A visit to Karachi’s vibrant, charismatic, long lost twin

The Yearning for Peace

Finally, some 600 Pakistanis were granted visas. Even so, this was the largest ever delegation to visit the other country.

A Fool’s Errand

SARRC Summit 2004 in Islamabad - some thoughts and conclusions

Rethinking Plebiscite In Kashmir

By declaring that \'we have left aside\' the United Nation Security Council resolutions for a solution to Kashmir, General Pervez Musharraf shattered a long-held taboo.

The Great Turn-On

India and Pakistan were about to sign a joint declaration. President Pervez Musharraf got so terribly excited he had to rush in to change his clothes. By then it was all over.

India-Pakistan: This is not Cricket

The latest round of diplomacy by media between arch-rivals India and Pakistan betrays their irrepressible proclivity to play politics with even the most sensitive issues of peace or war.

Imposed solution

New British High Commissioner says a solution of Kashmir imposed by international community on India-Pakistan won’t by sustainable; impetus for peaceful settlement should come from the two neighbours

One Afternoon

A couple of Pakistani school children darted a quick glace at the Indians and then quickly, put their feet across the border and touched the Indian soil.

Of Curiosity, Optimism and Hope

Whenever Indo-Pakistani matches would be played, it was incredibly curious that I, the cricket-hater was assumed to support the Pakistani team by several of my friends in Government Law College, Ernakulam, India.

Vajpayee’s Srinagar offer of Talks to Pakistan

Instead of strife and warfare in South and Central Asia, need for Economic and multi-facet cooperation like Asean & EU- begin with a gas pipe line for a lasting solution.

Build Bridges, Not Bombs

This year, there was an unusual addition to the crowds thronging Quaid-e-Azam’s Mazar on August 14. As the sun set, a small group (women of assorted ages, plus two visiting Nepali teachers) arrived with peace placards and candles

Youth Without Borders

Being with people who I was meeting for the first time in my life and will probably never meet again was and still is scary. ‘Was,’ because despite all else they were still ‘Indians,’ and we are all familiar with the oil and water

Bus Baby

A poem for Noor Fatima

• All
• US Elections 2008 Primaries
• Pakistan General Election 2007-2008
• Benazir Bhutto Assassination
• Pakistan State of Emergency
• Bomb Blasts on Benazir Bhutto's Return
• Judicial Crisis in Pakistan
• Lal Masjid Seige
• May 12 2007 Karachi Riots
• Virginia Tech Shooting
• Cricket World Cup 2007
• July 2006 Lebanon War
• July 11 Bombay Train Blasts
• July 7 London Bombing
• Kashmir Earthquake
• Indian General Elections 2004
• Tsunami
• Vote of Confidence
• India Pakistan Peace Process
• US-Iraq War
• Kalabagh Dam Controversy
• Higher Education Commission Criticism
• Karachi Oil Spill
• Mukhtaran Mai Rape
• Gujarat Riots
• Indian Parliament Attack
• War in Afghanistan
• September 11 Attacks
• Dot com
• Pakistan Coup of 1999
• 1999 Kargil Conflict
• 1998 Nuclear Weapons Testing
• Remembering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Honouring Abdus Salam