Sehrish & Fawad from Pakistan

Sehrish Mushtaq and Fawad Baig are media professionals from Lahore city of Pakistan. Both started their career as TV directors and producers in the state owned Pakistan Television (PTV) in 2005. Fawad is still associated with PTV and Sehrish is a lecturer in Department of Mass Communication at Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan. Both husband and wife are on study leave and pursuing their PhD from Institute of Media and Communication, Technical University of Dresden (TUD). Fawad’s topic of PhD thesis is related to party press relationship while Sehrish’s topic is directly related to peace. She is working on Peace Journalism model and possibility of its application for the news coverage of different issues and events between India and Pakistan.

After 70 years of their inception, India and Pakistan are still not able to harmonize their relations as neighboring countries. A continuous environment of hostility prevails between both countries and their people as well. Despite sharing the longest border with India, it is not easily possible for Pakistanis and Indians both to visit each other. This is the reason, both Indian and Pakistanis hardly become friends with each other. Sehrish’s slam with Neelakshi also shares an urge of being able to meet people from the other side of border. They want people of both sides to realize that putting aside their yearlong prejudices will help develop long-lasting friendships and ultimately may lead towards peace between India and Pakistan.