Junoon Crosses The Border Courtesy: Ejaz Ahmad Junoon will be symbolically "crossing the border" at 6 a.m. on the morning of the 18th of March at the Wagah/Atari Border between India And Pakistan. Junoon, in the studio preparing their follow-up album to Azadi (the highest selling pop album in India and Pakistan last year), is breaking their gruelling recording schedule to make time to perform at the celebrations of the One Year Anniversary of the Central Government at Delhi. The group has been specially invited by the Prime Minister of India to include Pakistan at the program called "From Pokhran to Pakistan", which nods to the Historic bus ride Mr. Vajpayee made from Delhi to Lahore last month in the search for peace in South Asia. Junoon will be reversing the trip in the same Gilded bus as used by the Prime Minister of India. The award winning music group is scheduled to perform at three events in India's Capital: at a Media event on the 18th to be broadcast to 600 million, at a private function specially arranged for the PM, his cabinet, Ministers of State, ambassadors, bureaucrats, and civil and military leaders, and finally at a public concert at Delhi's famous India Gate. To mark the auspiciousness of the event, Junoon will be singing their familiar song "Dosti" (recently re-released in India on the album with the same name, through Virgin Records) with an Indian Group known as Silk Route. The message will be clear: As John Lennon once said: "Give Peace a Chance". As Mr. Vajpayee said in Lahore: We have seen many days of enmity (Humne dushmani keh bahuth din dekhliye"), Now why not give Friendship a chance? ("Kyoun Nah Dosti ko bhi ab aik moka deh?") Junoon's as yet unnamed next studio album is due for a worldwide release on the 15th of March.