As part of the second gathering of Indians and Pakistanis for a Visa free and Peaceful South Asia, visiting Indian citizens join in a fast in Lahore with their Pakistani hosts. Leading up to the event, Pakistani youth had organized a program where they pledged to work for Indo-Pak peace.

While the Pakistani President talks about peace with India on one hand, peace activists working on Indo-Pak peace are under threat. One activist – Asif Baladi – has been kidnapped by ISI.

Shah Mehmood Qureish, Member of the National Assembly from Multan, former minister with the PPP and the trustee of the Shrine of Sufi saint Bahauddin Zakaria, welcoming the Indian and Pakistani delegates of the peace march at a function in Multan said that the arms race must end, that the nuclearization of South Asia must be curtailed. If the Berlin Wall could crumble, surely the barriers between Indians and Pakistanis can end too, he argued.

The peace march has taken a different flavor in Pakistan. While only meetings and gatherings have been allowed, these meetings have been very warm and positive. And usually quite large.

The Peace March has now crossed into Punjab, and into the second part of the Indian leg. The enthusiasm of people along the route continues to inspire the marchers.

The Indo -Pakistan Peace March that began from Delhi
on March 23 is now approaching Ambala, the last major "port of call"
in Haryana on the route of the March.

It has been one week since the peace march started from Nizamuddin and so far the Government of India has yet to give visas to Pakistanis wanting to join the march. On 28th, the embassy in Pakistan said that visas would be granted – however, it continues to tarry claiming every day that visas would be given ‘tomorrow’.

The march is now on its fifth day and for the marchers and organizers it has been five days of energizing public participation.

The march made its way from Nizammudin to Kingsway Camp stopping at Rajghat, on the way. The response from Delhi has been overwhelming.

A delegation of the organizers of the Pakistan-India Peace March met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, on March 12, 2005, at Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Islamabad.

Indian and Pakistani leaders are working to develop programs for increased interaction between Indian and Pakistani youth.

The Hindustan Times reported that in a tribute to the friendship of Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a group from Pakistan is expected to join an event marking 75 years of the historic Dandi march.

Detailed route of the peace march from New Delhi to Multan.

A Peace Mela was organized in Jalandhar from November 23rd to 26th, 2004.

Indian and Pakistani fishermen, invariably straying into each others territorial waters are regularly arrested and imprisoned. While this issue has constantly been raised in so called confidence building talks between the two countries, it has yet to be resolved.

Preparatory efforts for the peace march from New Delhi to Multan have begun in earnest.

Before it was in fashion to be talking about peace between India and Pakistan, a Pakistani physician, having immigrated to the US, was exploring what was possible.

For 2004, the Magsaysay award was presented to Mr. Laxminarayan Ramdas, chairperson of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, and Ibn Abdur Rehman, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan for "their reaching across a hostile border to nurture a citizen-based consensus for peace between Pakistan and India.

A seventy member delegation of the Pakistan India People's Forum for
Peace and Democracy crossed over to Pakistan at the Attari-Wahga
border today to participate in the three day joint celebration of
the Forum's 10th Anniversary, being organised in Lahore.