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Pakistani lesbian couple marry in U.K. defying threats

HASAN SUROOR  LONDON, May 27, 2013, The Hindu On a day that a French lesbian love story won the top award at Cannes, two young lesbians from Pakistan became the first Muslim women in Britain to marry in a civil ceremony… Continue Reading →

Rethinking Development In Pakistan

      By Q. Isa Daudpota   25 May, 2013 Countercurrents.org   Trickle-down economics invariably fails in poor countries. For long-lasting progress, development policies that are bottom-up, those that ‘put the last first’, often succeed. Ideas supportive of this… Continue Reading →

Pakistan releases 45 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture #goodnews

Press Trust of India | Posted on May 25, 2013 Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday released 45 Indian prisoners as a gesture of goodwill though confusion surrounded the move as Indian authorities in Islamabad were not informed about it. “We have freed 45 Indian… Continue Reading →

Surviving the First Day – State of the World’s Mothers 2013 #Vaw #Womenrights

From the Report…………….. “…….Each year, 3 million newborns die, making up nearly half (43 percent) of the world’s under-5 child deaths. And yet almost all newborn deaths originate from preventable and treatable causes: we already have the tools available to… Continue Reading →

Bomb blasts cast shadow over Pakistan’s milestone election

Reuters | May 11, 2013, A woman voter holds her ballot paper and stamp while moving to a polling booth inside a polling station in Karachi on May 11, 2013. ISLAMABAD: A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan‘s… Continue Reading →

India – Ignoring Custodial Deaths #Prisons

Vol – XLVIII No. 19, May 11, 2013 | Rebecca Gonsalvez and Vijay Hiremath EPW There is justifiable anguish over the killing of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail but what about the thousands of deaths in police and judicial custody in India? Torture… Continue Reading →

Spies of Punjab, ‘shown steps of gold’

CHANDER SUTA DOGRA, The HinduFor one Sarabjit Singh, whose death brought politicians to his funeral and financial assistance for his family, the Punjab countryside is dotted with scores of men knocking on the doors of courts seeking compensation for the… Continue Reading →

Joint Statement on Sixth meeting of the India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners to Pakistan

  May 03, 2013 Members of the India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners visited Pakistani Jails in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore from April 26-May 1, 2013. The members of the Committee, Justice (Retd.) Mr A.S Gill and Justice (Retd) Mr. M.A… Continue Reading →

PressRelease- Joint Statement by Indians and Pakistanis on the Sad Demise of Sarabjit Singh

We the citizens of India and Pakistan are pained by the sad demise of Mr. Sarabjit Singh as a result of a dastardly attack on him in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore, Pakistan by some inmates on 26th April 2013…. Continue Reading →

Sarabjit Singh dies, Pakistan to hand over his body to India

PTI | May 2, 2013, Pak to return Sarabjit’s body after postmortem LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thurday said the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault in jail, will be handed over to Indian… Continue Reading →

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