Khudai Khidmatgars: India launch Jan 20, 2012

The Khudai Khidmatgar (Red Shirts) movement will be launched in India on Jan 20, 2012, marking the 24th death anniversary of the ‘Sarhadi Gandhi’ Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, with a membership drive, and addresses by distinguished peace activists, writers and poets Date: January 20, 2012 Time: 3.30-5.30 pm, Place: 5 Tees January Marg New Delhi Contact: +91-9911292235 and [...]

The ‘Bulbul-e-Kashmir’ sings for Indo-Pak peace

This personal blog post is dedicated to an inspiring couple in Mumbai and to the editor who introduced us: May our tribe increase. I met Seema Sehgal in Karachi, in December 2003 at the 6th Joint Convention of the Pakistan India Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD). Ved Bhasin, the respected Editor of The Kashmir [...]

People for peace: 8th PIPFPD Joint Convention, Allahabad

My curtain raiser on the Eighth Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) Joint Convention being held in Allahabad, India, Dec 29, 2011-Jan 1, 2012 (slightly shorter version published as an op-ed in The News). When the name was being decided, the Indians insisted that Pakistan should

Indian pilot’s daughter writes a deeply touching reply to Pakistani pilot who shot her father’s plane down

Thanks to Naveed Riaz in Lahore for the email that formed the basis of my report on Qais Hussain’s condolence note to Farida Singh, daughter of the Indian pilot whose plane he shot down during the 1965 war. Here’s another note Mr Riaz just sent to his email list:  This profoundly humane episode continues to [...]

Pakistani pilot writes after 46 years to daughter of Indian pilot he shot down

Below: the report I did based on an email that Naveed Riaz in Lahore forwarded me, published in The News this morning with the Aman ki Asha logo. There has been a phenomenal response to this report, with most people lauding Qais Hussain’s courage in speaking out after all these years and writing what must [...]

Jan 1, 2010 – Aman Ittehad peace & solidarity day

Rallies planned in Abbottabad, Haripur, Mardan, Karak, Swabi, D.I.Khan, Peshawar, Mingora, Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Badin, Jamshoro, Larkana, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Karachi, Loralai, Quetta and Islamabad

Peace please, musically

Shahvar Ali Khan: “No Saazish, No Jung” In January I posted out information to my  yahoogroup about a joint signature campaign between Indians and Pakistanis, and also a note from a Lahori who loves Mumbai, Shahvar Ali Khan (A Lahori’s love for Mumbai; Pk-India joint signature campaign – http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1028)com/ Recently, Shahvar wrote, composed and sang [...]

“No Sazish, No Jang” (No Conspiracy, No War) – a peace song

A young friend, Shahvar Ali Khan in Lahore has composed a song for which he recently launched the audio.  The MP3 is downloadable. Video coming soon. Download and listen to Mulla na kar tang…. (Mulla, stop bugging us!) at \”No Sazish, No Jang\” (No Conspiracy, No War) by Shahvar Ali Khan It is a worthy [...]