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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DG ISPR Was Controlling...
Senior journalist and former Pakistan Electronic Media Authority (PEMRA) Chairman Absar Alam has revealed that as PEMRA head he...
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New Lawyers In KP...
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Police Raze Minarets Of...
In yet another instance of persecution against the marginalised community, police in Gujrat razed the minarets of an Ahmadi...
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Abducted Baloch Woman, Mother...
A Baloch woman, a single mother of two children, who was allegedly abducted by the authorities from Quetta, has...
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Khairpur Teacher Accused Of...
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