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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13-Year-Old Daughter, 4 Sons...
Four sons and a 13-year-old daughter of the woman, who was murdered along with her two sons allegedly in...
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Contrary to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's claims that his party women workers arrested in connection with the...
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Swat Peace Protests’ Organiser...
Human rights activist and one of the organisers of Swat peace protests Fawad Khan was allegedly abducted from Swat. Swat...
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Civil Society Holds Protest...
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