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Posts Tagged ‘Aman Ki Asha’

Heading towards the right direction

By Afshain Afzal • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

There was not much expected from the Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan that concluded few days back at New Delhi. However, it is encouraging to note that the Foreign Secretaries of both the countries did talk and there was no walk out. The tolerance shown by Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and [...]



Building upon ‘Amman ki Aasha’

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Equipped with unprecedented tools of mass media communication, two reputed publication houses of India and Pakistan have embarked upon building an environ of peace at a time when bilateral relations of the two neighbors are touching a new nadir. One wishes Times of India and the Jang Group Godspeed in their endeavors to bring peace [...]



Open letter to Shah Rukh Khan?

By captainjohann • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The following mail from a friend tells a lot about AMAN KI ASHA of the Ordinary middleclass Indian and his FEARS though it is addressed to SRK.I invite response from TPS readers.
“”””” Your name is a household phenomenon in India and even beyond her borders. Your fame has put you in the Newsweek “most powerful [...]



Aman Ki Asha and Indian Hegemonic Mindset

By Dr.Qazi Aziz-ud-Din Umar • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Misc

A SOLITARY DOVE IS SEEN HOVERING WITH A GREEN HUE
WHY ?ONLY ON US, THE DUTY OF PEACE SUASION IS DUE
SIX DECADS WE SPOILED IN BRIDGING OVER THE STRETCH
IN OUR HEARTS, IN THE AIR ,USING FOOTING OF THE FLUE



Impediments to Aman Ki Asha

By amicus • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Features

In January 2004 the India-Pakistan peace initiative launched by President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpai, was enthusiastically welcomed by the media, including the Jang-Geo and The Times of India groups and celebrated with much fanfare, by many in two countries; yet the tempo could not be sustained and it failed to [...]



Indo-Pak relations & Duplicitous policy

By Naveed Baloch • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After the Mumbai bomb blasts last November, Indian print and electronic media directly criticised Pakistan and tried to create an image of it as a failed state. Non-journalistic and undiplomatic language was used against Pakistan, which brought both countries very close to a terrible war. Timely and truthful analysis and commentary by Pakistani media helped [...]



Aman ki asha or jung ki asha?

By Vipin Nair • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Times of India group from India and the Jung group from Pakistan have started this campaign of peace which had it’s first edition in the newspapers of the respective groups. It focuses on making people familiar with each other from both sides of the border with cousins, daily life, scientific developments and other such [...]