Tag: Peace
Asian Youth Peace Conference ends on high note
The Asian Youth Peace Conference and festival ended on Friday, leaving behind an almost tangible sense of inspiration and enthusiasm for learning by doing....
Asian Youth Peace Festival kicks off
Asian Youth Peace Conference and Festival, the most awaited event of the year, kicked off on Wednesday. The day started with The Network Game,...
Trade diplomacy to boost fragile Pak-India peace process
The trade ministers of India and Pakistan meet in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss measures to overhaul ragged commercial ties which should help...
Moot highlights importance of peace in subcontinent
One wonders as to why the two nuclear rival nations – Pakistan and India–are hostile to each other despite having a similar culture, observed...
Afghans protest death of peace broker Rabbani
Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to denounce the assassination of government peace mediator and ethnic Tajik powerbroker Burhanuddin...
Kenya’s Nobel peace laureate dies
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer aged 71, her family...
Dozens more killed in Yemen after Saleh peace vow
Dozens of people were killed during clashes in the Yemeni capital Saturday, a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned following three months away...
‘Peace in city possible only if establishment ends its dirty games’
Shifting the current paradigm of security state, zero tolerance for weapons, fair civic governance and respect to diversity are the need of the time...
Karzai renews peace pledge at Rabbani’s funeral
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday vowed to persevere with efforts to broker peace with the Taliban as he led thousands of mourners at...
Kashmir resolution only guarantee to regional peace, says Sultan
Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister Barrister Sultan Mehmood has said that everyone in Kashmir desired an early and peaceful settlement of the...
Vigil held to commemorate International Peace Day
The Oneness Movement, Pakistan held a candle light vigil at the Charing Cross on Wednesday to commemorate the International Day of Peace.
People from all...
Afghans mourn killing of peace broker
Hundreds of Afghans marched in Kabul Wednesday to mourn Burhanuddin Rabbani, chairman of the government’s peace council, whose assassination threatens to plunge the country...
Rabbani: unlikely broker for Afghanistan peace
Burhanuddin Rabbani, who led Afghan reconciliation efforts with the Taliban until his assassination on Tuesday, was a mercurial figure whose personal ambition made him...
Winning the battle of ideas against extremism
President Asif Zardari has said that militancy and extremism posed a great challenge to global peace and stressed the need for winning the battle...
I have vowed to establish peace in Karachi: Malik
Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that he has vowed to bring peace in Karachi.
“Certain elements have been claiming that government has failed to...
Three-member Pakistani peace delegation leaves for New Delhi
A three-member Pakistani peace delegation on Thursday left for New Delhi on the invitation of the released fishermen and peace organisations in India. The...
The economics of peace in Afghanistan
Suicide bombings, assassinations of top Afghan leaders, brutal attacks on Charikar and other places close to Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and a rapid increase in...
