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Aman ki Asha

campaign aiming for peace and development of relations between Pakistan and India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4739491 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aman ki Asha (Urdu: امن کی آشا, Hindi: अमन की आशा, translation: "Hope for Peace") is a campaign jointly started by two leading media houses, The Jang Group of Pakistan, and The Times of India in India. The campaign aims for mutual peace and development of diplomatic and cultural relations between the two South Asian nations. It was established on 1 January 2010.

Background

Aman ki Asha was inspired by the groundbreaking work of "Friends Without Borders", an international NGO, that launched bold, love-based people-to-people campaigns between the children and people of both countries between 2005 - 2007.

Editorial summary

“Aman ki Asha” enters the record as campaign aiming for peace and development of relations between Pakistan and India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aman, Asha and campaign can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aman, Asha and campaign.
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“Aman ki Asha” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aman, Asha and campaign provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4739491. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2005 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aman ki Asha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.