Jatin Desai and Beena Sarwar
Jatin Desai and Beena Sarwar are longtime journalists who met through the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy launched in 1994. Based in Mumbai, Jatin Desai has served as General Secretary of the PIPFPD India chapter. Formerly based in Karachi and Lahore, Beena Sarwar has written extensively on issues of cross-border prisoners. She is editor Sapan News beena@sapannews.com.
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Indian, Pakistani Fishermen Continue to Fall Victim to Heartless Policies of...
If 99 Indian fishermen incarcerated in Pakistani prisons had been repatriated last month as agreed, Jagdish Mangal might still be alive. Mangal was among the several Indian fishermen arrested by Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency in February 2020 and detained in Malir prison, Karachi. He was...
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Over 12 Children Sexually...
Over 12 children were sexually abused daily in Pakistan and as many as 4,253 cases of child sexual abuse...
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Police Reportedly Open Fire...
Security forces reportedly fired several shots near a protest demonstration in Hoshab, Balochistan, seeking a safe return of a...
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Balochistan PTCL Office Damaged...
Unidentified men threw a hand grenade at the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited’s (PTCL) office in Balochistan’s Noshki district, damaging...
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Police Demolish Minaret of...
The Punjab police demolished the minaret of a 70-year-old Ahmadi worship place in Kot Karam Baksh, Sialkot. Ahmadis who...
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Inside the Ongoing Racial...
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Lawyer Imaan Mazari had just got home after getting journalist Matiullah Jan released from the custody...
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‘Islamabad Park Rape Suspects...
Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, the lawyer of the F-9 Park rape survivor, has claimed that the suspects in the case...
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Cholistan Farmers’ Longstanding Struggle for Land and Water Rights Remains Overlooked
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