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Indo-Pakistan dosti?
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Let there be love in South Asi...
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Sundered Hindu-Muslim, Indo-Pa...
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Partition Puzzle: Role of Brit...
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I want my country back
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Can Bollywood heal the India-Pakistan relationship PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Sonya Fatah   
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Make peace, not war.

This is the message that two of the largest publications in India and Pakistan are sending their  countries in recent weeks. Since the start of the new year, the two have engaged in a veritable orgy of peace, using their publications and their television channels to inspire Indo-Pak friendship.

The drama began in early January when readers of India's most widely read English-language daily opened up its morning papers to a full-page advertisement under a bold banner, Love Pakistan. Since then, on the Indian side, the Times of India has dedicated big chunks of space to spreading that message, too.

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Let there be love in South Asia and let it begin with me PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Pritam K. Rohila   
Tuesday, 09 February 2010

February is the month of love. It’s time to give and receive love, and to make peace with people around us.

 

Let us take this opportunity to look beyond ourselves. Let us transcend our limitations and hesitations. Let us take a chance to attempt to live in peace and harmony with our social and natural environment.

 

 

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Indo-Pakistan dosti? PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Raza Rumi   
Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Reclaiming shared cultures could resist the clamping of boundaries and challenge the mutually destructive paths that Indian and Pakistani states have imposed upon us as our destinies:

1947 was not just about India’s Independence, it was an initiator of identities imposed from ‘above’. The new postcolonial states ventured to redefine their status through a mix of jingoism, the rewriting of history and the whipping up of the nation-state mantra – essentially Western in concept and practice. The journey of South Asian people therefore, has been fraught with wars, hysteria and state diktat articulating itself through prejudiced educational curricula and state-sponsored historical half-truths.

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Partition Puzzle: Role of British Policy PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Ram Puniyani   
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Jaswant Singh in his recent book on Jinnah has praised the secular nature of Jinnah and has held Nehru-Patel responsible for Partition of India. Many people from Pakistan are praising Jaswant Singh’s book to the sky, while here in India there is a mixed reaction. Most strong one came from BJP President Rajnath Singh who hinted that any praise of Jinnah, will be met with strict action. The problem with such formulation, Jinnah was secular, Nehru-Patel were responsible for partition, is that it is an extremely superficial analysis and does not look at the complex multilayered phenomenon of partition tragedy. It totally by passes the role of British rulers and the different interests of diverse classes during freedom movement. The response to the book is either at emotive level, our leader versus your leader, or how dare you speak against our icon!

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Indo Pak Leaders PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Aminur Rashid   
Friday, 04 September 2009

Allama Iqbal (the writer of Saare Jahaan se Accha, Hindustaan humaara fame) has nicely put the expectation from people of Hind (Indo pak together), whom he was seeing as leaders of the world..

 Sabaq perh phir sadaqat ka, adalat ka, shujaat ka

Liya jayey ga tujh say kaam duniya ki imamat ka

(Meanings: Sabaq = Lesson; Saqadat = Truth; Adalat = Justice; Shujaat = Bravery; Imamat = Leadership) 

The line also put down, the qualities a world leader should have. 

Forget about leading the world, do we have leaders who can lead their respective countries to progress, peace and prosperity?

Since this website ipfc.info finds its root from the famous Orkut community, IPFC , I will be soon updating the response from members of that community later, to this article in the comment section.

Readers are free to chip in their opinion as well. 

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Sundered Hindu-Muslim, Indo-Pak-Kashmiri Family Cries for Reunion PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Tanveer Ahmed   
Wednesday, 24 June 2009

“Before 2005, my Nana was the main obstacle between my Nani [in Pakistan] and her family [in India]. Now it’s the relationship between India and Pakistan.”

 

I am a 37-year-old British Mirpuri Kashmiri.  Four years ago, I came to Pakistan with the sole intention of taking my Nani, my maternal grandmother, across the Line of Control to meet her family on the other side of Kashmir.

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IPFC Petition against Terrorism PDF Print E-mail
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Written by IPFC Team   
Tuesday, 28 April 2009

The system that propagates hatred can not be mine
The action that wound others can not be yours
The Mosque that discards Gita can not be mine
The Temple that contempt Quran can not yours

 

We represent the young band of the dynamic and on the rise forum – ‘India Pakistan Friendship Club’ aspiring peace & harmony in the subcontinent. Our intent is not to hold up to any particular political dogma, any tenets of a religion or any cultural outlook, instead we represent the spirit of an active, awake & accountable citizen focused towards attaining never ending peace & tranquility with harmonious relationships.


[ Please sign the Petition and support IPFC in this cause : http://www.petitiononline.com/420840/petition.html
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Violence cannot solve the Kashmir issue PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Kuldip Nayar   
Sunday, 26 April 2009

Sajjad Lone, leader of the People's Conference, an ally of the Hurriyat, has come to realise that bullet cannot defeat ballot.

He has thrown his hat in the ring from the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in north Kashmir, the stronghold of his father, Abdul Gani Lone, who was killed by militants nearly a decade ago.

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I want my country back PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Sehar Tariq   
Friday, 24 April 2009
Eight years ago I boarded a plane to the United States to come to college. I was 17. As I left, my father hugged me and told me to never come back because he believed that soon Pakistan would not be a country fit for me to live in. I told him he was trying to save money by not having to buy me tickets to come home. We laughed it off. I hugged him goodbye and that day my father and I began our great debate about the fate of Pakistan. Abba told me to stay away. I defied him every time. I came home twice a year. I only flew PIA. I refused to do an internship in the US I worked every summer in Pakistan. I moved back when college ended. I started work in Pakistan. I worked two jobs because there was so much to do and not enough time to do it in. I was inspired and energised. I was hopeful and optimistic.

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