5 Mar: Human Chain Against Terrorism, War and Violence (COVA)
Lysa John
From: COVA network
[mailto:indopak.joi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 5:43
PM
To: lca...@usaid.gov
Subject: 12 Member Pakistani Peace
Delegation for 12 Indian Cities- Joint Signature Campaign
Dear friends
A 12 Member Peace Delegation crossed the Wagah- Attari Border on 1st March 2009 for a 10 day Goodwill visit to India. The Peace Delegation will be visiting Amritsar, Delhi, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Chennai, Lucknow, Patna, Kolkotta, Durgapur, Jaipur, Ajmer and Chandigarh before they return to Pakistan on 9th March 2009.
Over a hundred organisations in India are involved in organising programs for the Pakistan Peace Delegation where they will be meeting and interacting with school, college and university students, youth groups; teachers, students, workers and trade unions, social, women’s, human rights and peace activists; leaders of Dalit and marginalised communities, businessmen and corporate representatives, editors and leaders of the media, members of political parties and other dignitaries.
Program for Amritsar and Delhi is attached and appended below. Programs for other cities will be mailed soon.
Please join the programs in your city to cement your solidarity for peace!!
Big Thank you and an Appeal
We would like to express our gratitude to hundreds of organisations and individuals who have endorsed the Indo- Pak Joint Signature Campaign Against Terorism and War and to promote Peace and partnered to collect thousands of Signatures from hundreds of cities, towns and villages in both India and Pakistan. We appeal to all those who have not yet sent the forms and banners on which the signatures were collected to kindly post them immediately to the following addresses:
Facilitating Organisations:
INDIA:
COVA,
20-4-10, Charminar, Hyderabad,
A.P., India – 500 002
Ph: +91-40-24572984
Email: indopak.jo...@gmail.com
PAKISTAN:
PILER
Centre,
ST.001, Sector X,
Sub-sector V, Gulshan-e-Maymar,
Karachi 75340. Pakistan
Ph: +92-21-6351145 – 7
Website: http://www.indopakcampaignagainstwarnterror.org
Proposed Program Schedule of the Pakistan Peace Delegation to India
1st – 9th March 2009
1st to 3rd March: Programs at Amritsar and Delhi
Sunday 1st February- Lahore - Amritsar
Coordination at Amritsar:
1. Mr. Ramesh Yadav- 98723 18484, 0183 2221599
11.00 am Cross over at Wagah - Attari border
2.00 pm Reach Amritsar followed by Lunch
4.00 pm Interaction with Civil Society Organisations and Media- Virsa Vihar Amritsar
10.00 pm Depart for Delhi by Volvo Bus- Escort:
Monday, 2nd March- Delhi
Contacts at Delhi:
1. Coordination: Haris Kidwai- 09811081240 and Mazher Hussain- 9849178111
2. Appintments:Shailander Uniyal-98186 01094
3. Events and Logistics: Coordination: Rajeshwar and Asghar
4. Media: Mohita Nagpal- 98730 27024
Programs at Delhi
12.00 Noon Interactions with Trade Union and Mass Movement Leaders - India Islamic Cultural Center, Lodi Road, New Delhi- Organised by COVA
03.00 pm Meeting with Peace Activists at Coffee House, Cannaught Place, New Delhi- Organised By Indian Social Security
05.00 pm Human Chain against Terrorism, War and Violence and for Peace and Cooperation by Indian and Pakistani Citizens- Raj Ghat, New Delhi
09.00 pm Dinner and Meeting with Students of JNU at Sutlej Hostel
Monday, 3rd March 2009
11.00 am Interaction with members of CII- India Habitat Center- Organised by CII
12.30 pm Interaction with Media Leaders followed by Lunch at The Press Club of India- organized by SANSAD
3.00 p.m. Press Conference
4.30 pm Group I and III leaves for Nagpur and Jaipur
8 00 pm Group Leaves for Lucknow