Statement from Southasia Peace Action Network
6 May 2025
We, at the Southasia* Peace Action Network, Sapan, make an urgent plea to India and Pakistan to stop the war immediately.
We stand in solidarity with all those categorically condemning any form of violent extremism or ‘terrorism’ and against the cowardly targeting of unarmed civilians, for any reason.
The communal and toxic weaponizing of religions currently feeding frenzy in Pakistan and India amplified by media and social media, gives the illusion of a consensus for war.
We urge the international community to stand in solidarity with the peoples of Southasia.
We call upon journalists and social media users to engage with their platforms responsibly and ethically and not fan the fires.
The governments of India and Pakistan must behave responsibly. Any war between these two nuclear-armed nations would be disastrous not just for the people of those countries but for the region and for global peace.
We therefore urge the people of India and Pakistan to hold their governments accountable and resist any speech or actions that feed war hysteria.
We call on all those who believe that peace, not war, is the way forward, to speak out against the politics of hate, violence, and vengeance, and to stand up for dialogue, cooperation, and a shared future of peace and co-existence.
*Note on ‘Southasia’ as one word… Because history, geography and shared struggles say so.
https://www.southasiapeace.com
Contact: southasiapeaceactionnetwork@gmail.com
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Also Published in:
- The Times Of India : Sapan makes an urgent plea to India and Pakistan to stop the probable war immediately,07 May 2025.
If I die in this war
I’ll remember how we preached love beyond borders together
The world is a very sad place
I had to accept it
Also my unwillingness
To change the me
Who believes in love
And hopes for peace
So if I die
I’ll die remembering
How love still exists
As a belief
As an answer
In a you
Beena Sarwar
This one’s for you 🌻❣️
THE HATE I HATED
The hate I hated
Seems unabated
Finding Instances
To seem inflated
In the name of religion, peace or power
Death hovers over us every hour
It’s not defense each time, each side
It’s terrorism for the body and mind
For a few votes here and a few votes there
Mummy and daddy had a scare
But all of us dint realize
It’s people dying on each side
I’m so fed up and so confused
Of fear, uncertainty,
Pain and abuse
I wish I knew
the end of this abyss
This before me
or me before this
~Desiree Francis
Human, Pakistani (if that matters)
I fully agree with you . We must be good neighbors. We must be good friends. The whole World must be laughing at us . Hope it ends soon .
The Indian subcontinent has a shared history , geography and rich heritage.
The ultra nationalist intolerance, bigotry and jingoism has no place in the present times when the people of this region are impoverished, under developed and lagging behind in human development indicators.
Instead of war machines and expensive military hardware the population need quality of life in terms of better education and health facilities and opportunities to foster collective progress and prosperity of the region.
The perpetrators of terrorism have done a huge disservice to the progress of the region. Killing innocent tourists is an act of inhuman cruelty and cowardice of their backers. Invoking religion as a divisive and destructive factor is an ugly and shameful matter that lacks moral support.
We should unite people with their ethnic and cultural diversities
The military industrial complex thats want to divide and rule the region through their proxies should be opposed and exposed by media and grass roots movement across the subcontinent
Let sanity and peace prevail instead of death and destruction of the subcontinent
In SOLIDARITY !