As Pakistani and Indian citizens we extend our hands of friendship across borders and jointly challenge the war hysteria launched by both our governments Statements & Declarations by Citizens Groups Statements from India Chapter of Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) May - June 1999 Press Release by Action Committee Against Arms Race (ACAAR), Karachi on 24 May 1999 Press Release by Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND) May 28, 1999 Joint Statement by Prominent Indians and Pakistanis issued in Delhi and Karachi, June 1, 1999 All India Catholic Union appeal for urgent steps to de-escalate tension and restore peace (Press Statement of June 14, 1999) Press Release by Chairperson of India Chapter of Pakistan India People's forum for Peace and Democracy, Hyderabad, June 18, 1999 Press Release, 21 June 1999 by Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy Islamabad / Rawalpindi Chapter Press Release from Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) 26 June 1999  Pakistani Rights Activists ask India & Pakistan not to move towards war [news report, June 30, 1999] Pakistani Carpet Workers Oppose War Report by Farooq Sulehria Report of a Procession in Calcutta against War in Kargil [A memorandum to the Indian & Pak PM's signed by 350 people] Pakistan Peace Coalition Press Statement (8 July 1999) Press release by Pakistan India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, West Bengal Chapter (11th July,1999) 1000 people March in Calcutta to demand Peace A Report by Amit Chakraborty (15 July 1999) Citizens Initiatives Citizens Against War - India Citizens Against War was formed in New Delhi on June 18, 1999 at a meeting called by the National Committee of Pakistan India Forum for Peace and Democracy. The anti-war forum at present consists of 12 Delhi based human rights groups, women's groups, environmentalists, lawyers, trade unions, university and school teachers, cultural workers, and other mass organisations. Pakistan India Peoples forum for Peace and Democracy - Pakistan Chapter Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND) The Action Committee Against Arms Race (ACAAR) Pakistan Citizens Peace Committee Pakistan South Asian Against Nukes: Citizens Oppose the Indian & Pakistani Nuclearisation AMAN: Peace Pals Project (Mumbai, India) A Discussion list called South Asians for Peace: on the Web at http://www.egroups.com/list/sap To subscribe, email to sap-subscribe@makelist.com On Victims of War: Relevant News Stories 15 June 99 (BBC) Thousands displaced by Kashmir fighting 18 June 99 (BBC) Mass exodus over war fears 24 Jun 99 (BBC) Border villages feel the fallout 6 July 99 (BBC) Kashmiris Caught in the Crossfire 20 July 99 (BBC) Punjab border villagers keep away They love this war - have a stake in it India's Far Right Calls for the Use of Nuclear Weapons against Pakistan

Writings on the undeclared war in Kargil Kashmir, on the danger of nuclear war & on Indo Pak Ties (May-July 1999) The Enhanced Dangers of a Clash Over Kashmir By Amin Saikal The Imperilled Paradise by Salman Rushdie From Pokharan to Kargil: The Nuclear Danger Is No Fantasy by Praful Bidwai The warning from Kargil By Achin Vanaik War is No Solution by Mohammad Farooq Line of Control: Reflections on the State at War in South Asia & the World Anonymous When Gunfire Blew out the Peace Candles by Mohua Chatterjee Law rather than War on Kashmir by Zia Mian Battles in the Mind by Teesta Seetalvad Don't Escalate Kargil To All-Out-War by Siddharth Varadarajan Call for an End to Armed Intrusion [News report in The Hindu, 26 June 1999] War would be suicidal for both Nations: Pakistani Poet By Ikram Ali A Foolish Ban by Chanchal Sarkar I am Venal you are Scum by Dilip D'Souza The Ordinary Pakistani Wants Peace with India by Beena Sarwar The Precipice at Kargil by Iqbal Jafar A Way out of Kashmir Quagmire by S.P. Udayakumar E-mail message from a Pakistani to an Indian Friend [Identity withheld] Reporting from Gagangir, A Kargil War Refugee Camp by Tapan Bose Real issues are clouded by national chauvinism by Ashim Chatterjee Passions and Paranoia by Irfan Hussain War and Peace by Anand Patwardhan Patriotism and Pacifism in Times of War by Nivedita Menon Media and Muslims [in India]: Looking beyond Kargil by V.B. Rawat Kargilonomics: Let's make peace, not war by Ashim Chatterjee Is Peace Unthinkable by Kalpana Sharma A School in Alibag - A Bunch of Kids - & Sundry Conversations: A Ray of Hope In The Worst Of Times by Lalita Ramdas Paki-Bashing In The Age Of Subcontinental Nukes [A comment by an expatriat Indian on the hateful reference to Pakistani's in Indian Media & e-mail discussion lists] Open Letter to Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan by Safdar Hasan Siddiqi It will soon be Minus 50° in Kargil by Rashme Sehgal The Price of War by Shrikant Rao The Dogs of War by S Venkitaramanan The War in Kargil by Ravi G What does it mean to be a nationalist ? by Dr. Sandeep Pandey The Real Cost of Kashmir by Irfan Hussain War clouds in the subcontinent by Omar Kureishi South Asia: A Plea for Peace by Ahson Saeed Hasan The Kashmir Conundrum by Pritam K Rohila Who is afraid of Indo - Pakistan Peace by V.B. Rawat Victory in Reverse: The Great Climbdown by Ayaz Amir Kargil: Scattered Realities by Mubashir Hasan In Defence of Dilip Kumar A statement by Anand Patwardhan, Teesta Setalvad Nikhil Wagle, Nalini Malini, Jayant Kriplani Darkness on The Edge of War by Dilip D'Souza Patriot Games Editorial in the Times of India Strategic clarity is lacking in approach to Kargil by Arvind Das Need to make Line of Control the international border by Amitabh Mattoo Avoiding War in South Asia by Shambhu Lama Kargil and Badal [A story from India] by Anonymous Saffron Nation Theory by Ashok Mitra Jingoistic hysteria takes hold in India by Praful Bidwai A Post-Kargil-Mortem by Shad Moarif Indo-Pak Power deal off, a victim of Kargil by George Iype Heart Surgery heals old wounds of hatred A report in Indian Express Only Economics Can Bury South Asia's Ghosts by Vineeta Kumar The Kargil Fallout by Kuldeep Nayar Links to other materia on the Kargil War: Shrinking spaces, new places by P.Sainath Media Representations and Memorialisations of the Kargil Conflict [and the Gujarat Riots] by Subarno Chatterji Indo Pak Border war on Siachen glacier in the Western himalayas [An Article by Barry Bearak from New York Times] Amid the high peaks of the western Himalayas, where the air is thin and the temperature drops to 50 below, Pakistan, like India, has about 3,000 soldiers fighting in a border war that is now 15 years old. "This is like a struggle of two bald men over a comb," said Stephen P. Cohen, an authority on the Indian subcontinent at the Brookings Institution. "Siachen is the epitome of the worst aspects of the relationship. These are two countries that are paired on a road to Oslo or Hiroshima, and at this point they could go either way." Pakistani Villagers Willing to Wait for Passage to India by Pamela Constable (from Washington Post) On Kashmir A Kashmiri People's Solution for Kashmir By Eqbal Ahmad Kashmir: A Willing Suspension of Reason By Tapan Bose Behind the Conflict in Kashmir A Report by Human Rights Watch On Lahore The bus can bring a Nobel Prize By Eqbal Ahmad Imagine... By Irfan Hussain A new turn in India-Pakistan ties By Asghar Ali Engineer Bulletin Board Indian Government's blocking of the website of Pakistani newspaper DAWN finaly ended on July 13, 1999 Here is what the protest page against said

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