Indians in PH urge Pakistan to honor vow to end attacks on India
An Indian police officer (right) standing guard in Srinagar, Kashmir, on May 12, 2025. —File photo from Agence France-Presse
MANILA, Philippines — The Indian community in the Philippines urges the Pakistani government on Thursday to “fulfill its promise” to end armed attacks against India.
The Filipino-Indian Commerce and Welfare Society (FICWS) welcomed the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, and hoped for “long-lasting peace along the border.”
“I urge the Government of Pakistan to reaffirm and fulfill its stated commitment to peace by taking credible and transparent steps to end all support for terrorism directed against India,” Khalsa Diwan Indian Sikh Temple Manila chairman Manjinder Kumar said in a statement on Thursday.
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India and Pakistan agreed on a ceasefire last Saturday, after four days of missiles and drone attacks between the two countries, killing at least 60 people.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his speech after the truce that they would be “monitoring every step of Pakistan,” adding that “[t]his is not an era of war, but this is not an era of terrorism, either.”
Meanwhile, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the country’s military forces for their “professional and effective” response to what he deemed as Indian aggression.
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The FICWS earlier condemned the attacks between the two countries and called for vigilance and prayers amid the ongoing conflict.
The two South Asian countries exchanged missile and artillery strikes after a deadly attack in Kashmir, India. The crisis was triggered by an April 22 militant attack on tourists in Kashmir that killed 26 people.
While no one claimed the attack, New Delhi said that the perpetrators were from Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terror organization which has a history of planting attacks in India.
However, Islamabad denied the group’s connection to the Pakistani military establishment.
