When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. If ...
The notion of a one-state solution is not viable, just as a one-state solution for India and Pakistan would have proven disastrous. During the past several weeks, as two nuclear powers – India and ...
Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...
Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...
August 14, 1947, is a date that can never be forgotten in the history of the Indian subcontinent. On this day, India was divided, and a new nation emerged on the world map by the name of Pakistan. The ...
NEW DELHI — India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The ceasefire deal on ...
History bears witness that, ever since the partition, the plight of minorities in Pakistan-- particularly Hindus and Sikhs -- has been a matter of grave concern. However, the name change drive has unf ...
Seventy years after the partition of India and Pakistan, both countries are still shaped by the turmoil of that time. Most estimates say that more than a million people were killed during one of the ...