Bathinda: aims to see an increase in relationships between India and Pakistan and suggest steps where mutual understanding can be achieved, 50 intellectuals, activists and political figures from India and Pakistan have gathered to write a book ‘Chasing Peace – Indo-sir Relationships’ .
This book was released in a virtual event on Saturday.
This book is a collection of articles by intellectuals, political and social activists from India and Pakistan discussing strategies to improve indo-sir relationships.
This has been conceived and edited by OP Shah, Chair, Peace Center and Progress.
The purpose of this book is to deepen mutual understanding of various points of view in India and Pakistan and to accelerate the dialogue process, which is an important tool for bridging the trust deficit between neighboring countries.
When we approached the 75th anniversary of Indian and Pakistani independence, it was important to take stock of indo-sir relations.
The Peace Center and Progress, have made several dialogue for the past 30 years to improve Indo-sir’s relationship with the aim of bridging the gap between the two neighbors who share land borders.
We believe that it is very important that civil society in India and Pakistan lead in continuing peace talks between the two countries, to resolve our reciprocal differences, in addition to the efforts made by our two governments, said OP Shah.
“When we experience the worst times, peace is very important”, said Jaswant Sinha.
“When the government comes and goes but a permanent nation and everyone must play her role in restoring peace so that citizens of the two countries can often see each other and contribute to the Twin Building” Farooq Abdullah Minister of the Union of Shankar Aiyar, former MP Balbir Punj , Sudheendra Kulkarni, ex diplomat Abdul Basit, former Governor of Tathagata Roy and more officials emphasize the need for relations and pursuit of peace so that both countries can further develop.