(7 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 7 May 2025
1. Various of protesters chanting in front of the High Commission of India building
2. Close of Indian flag on building
3. Protesters holding flag of Azad Kashmir and chanting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Naheeda Nasir, protester:
"We want peace. We want the world to know that we want peace, we want to say no for war, because war, we’ve just been through with Palestine, now this is happening in India and Pakistan, and it’s not the loss of one country, it’s loss for the both countries. And it’s all the civilians and innocent people always die between the wars."
5. Pan from the High Commission of India building to protesters
6. Protesters chanting
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tariq Mahmood, protest organiser:
"My sympathies with the family who have lost their loved ones, right, but it doesn’t justify India to go and attack innocent people in Pakistan. So, we are here today to protest against Indian aggression towards Pakistan and Pakistan has every right to defend themselves and we will defend ourselves if we have to again and again and again."
8. Protesters chanting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raja Iftikhar, protester:
"We don’t want war because at the moment, so many countries are involved in a war and we like peace in this situation and Pakistan is an atomic country and it’s not a good idea to put Pakistan by force in the war because we don’t want war."
10. Protesters chanting while holding the flag of Azad Kashmir
STORYLINE:
Pakistan supporters gathered outside the High Commission of India in London on Wednesday, calling for peace between India and Pakistan.
Tensions have risen as Pakistan on Wednesday announced it will avenge those killed by India’s missile strikes that New Delhi called retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists in India-controlled Kashmir.
Pakistan called the strikes an act of war and claimed it downed several Indian fighter jets.
The missiles killed 31 people, including women and children, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the country’s Punjab province, Pakistan’s military said.
The strikes targeted at least nine sites “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned,” India’s Defense Ministry said. Two mosques were hit.
"We want peace. We want the world to know that we want peace," said protester Naheeda Nasir.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country would avenge the dead but gave no details, fanning fears of all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals. Already, it’s their worst confrontation since 2019, when they came close to war.
A heavy exchange of fire continued to follow the missile strikes, and officials in each country confirmed people were killed.
Sharif commended the armed forces for shooting down five Indian jets, which he said were hit after they fired their missiles but while still in Indian airspace.
There was no comment from India, but three planes fell onto villages in India-controlled territory, according to police and residents.
Tensions have soared between the neighbours since the April attack in which gunmen killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists.
India accuses Pakistan of being behind the attack, which was claimed by a militant group calling itself Kashmir Resistance.
India said the group is linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a disbanded Pakistani militant group that New Delhi long accused of being backed by Pakistan.
Islamabad denies involvement.
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