Southasia Peace Action Network

For communities living across the subcontinent and the global Southasian* diaspora alike, memory is rarely just a personal artifact; it is a shared, inherited landscape. The Partition of 1947 andContinue reading "Sun. 30 Aug: Home, love, los...

This special edition of the Sapan ‘Blog is a collaboration between Sapan and MoUSICi. By Arshad Mahmud  Economists often point out that if a country wishes to undermine its ownContinue reading "‘Watne Diyan Thandiyan...

The essence of nearly 190 videos, featuring co-created dance and musical performances by artists from Bhutan, India, and Pakistan, took center stage during the 2nd Southasian Commemoration of Doyens of Peace on 12 August 2026.

A cartoonist remembers a retired soldier who worked at the same newspaper office Chacha (Uncle) Fazal or Corporal Fazal from the Punjab regiment infantry retired in the initial period of the Zia ul Haq era which started after his takeover in 1977,he was employed by ‘The Muslim’ in the year 1981 as office help and remained in its service till its closure in the late 1990s. ‘The M...

Article 5 of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access, 2008 requires both governments "to release and repatriate persons within one month of confirmation of their national status and completion of sentences.” Yet as many as 78 Indian prisoners languish in Pakistani prisons years after having completed their terms.