Is India-Pakistan Peace a Lost Cause?

Arvind Saharan is a New Zealand-based peace activist originally from Ganganagar district, Rajasthan. In 2018, he launched Sarhad Ke Us Paar, a Facebook/YouTube show aimed at engaging with Pakistani intellectuals and opinion leaders. The show debuted with a six-part series on the Partition of India, featuring Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed, a renowned scholar. The series was well received by audiences in both India and Pakistan.

Since then, Arvind has interviewed many prominent Pakistani figures, including Javed Ghamidi, Orya Maqbool Jan, Izhar Ul Haq, Prof. Taimur Rahman, Lt. Gen. Naeem Lodhi, Lt. Gen. Shafaat Ullah Shah, and Ambassador Abdul Basit.
Firmly committed to fostering better India-Pakistan relations, he visited Pakistan in 2018 and frequently shares fond memories of his trip on social media.

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Shakil Chaudhary is a journalist, author, and researcher. He is an alumnus of Government College, Lahore. Subsequently, he studied international relations at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and media at the London School of Economics. He has worked for several English-language newspapers.

He has written a critically acclaimed bilingual book, Handbook of Functional English (Ferozsons), to help those who wish to improve their English skills. Prof. Tariq Rahman, one of the finest linguistic scholars in South Asia, has praised it in these words: “This book is an excellent guide for the South Asian user of the English language. It gives examples of both the British and American varieties of English and provides guidelines to avoid the common errors of most Pakistanis when they write and speak English. It is also a comprehensive guide for pronunciation, vocabulary, editing, and all other aspects of English usage. It has been written with great care and attention. I recommend it to students, editors, writers, and other users of English in Pakistan.”

Shakil has conducted many workshops on communication, writing, and critical thinking skills. He is a former president of the Progressive Writers Association, Islamabad (2021-2022).

If you want to see his most popular videos, here are the links to them.

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