NEW DELHI: As tensions escalated between India and Pakistan on Wednesday, scores of citizens from both the sides of the border took to Twitter and advocated peace, using the hashtag #SayNoToWar.
The hashtag #SayNoToWar soon became one of the top trends in India and Pakistan.
Here are some tweets calling for peace and agreeing that a war is not the best solution.
Don't celebrate war .#SayNoToWar
— Manaswini Satapathy (@satmanaswini) February 27, 2019
#SayNoToWar #santhoshgandhi#India #Pakistan #Budgam #BalakotAirStrike#Sialkot pic.twitter.com/tVybmxbGWq
— syed Asad Ali Kazmi (@SyedAsadAliKaz5) February 27, 2019
Appalled at the war-mongerers in our midst, especially on social media and the television media. If you so badly want to taste blood, sign up for the armed forces. I don't want my sisters and brothers in the armed forces dying just because of your clueless rants #SayNoToWar
— Arun Venugopal (@scarletrun) February 27, 2019
Etched in my memory forever : Used to live near border in #Tharparkar #Sindh during 1971 when it became War Theatre, my father sent the family to Karachi in a Train , those Sirens , Blackout and Sounds of Jets/Mirage ! Still haunts me. #India #Pakistan #Peace —> #SayNoToWar
— Aamir Mughal (@mughalbha) February 27, 2019
Away from the warmongering, glad to see some sanitu finally prevailing in the twitter. Important #SayNoToWar pic.twitter.com/Xx8yYEQidj
— Sayan (@Tweets_by_Sayan) February 27, 2019
#SayNoToWar Please RT and like. This message needs to go out to the powers that be in #India and #Pakistan.
— Ruchika Talwar (@RuchikaTalwar) February 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/GauravGupta__/status/1100718942362918912
Thank you, @mahwashajaz_ for tweeting this. Voices of sanity and humanity always welcome at a time like this. Stay safe, Wing Commander Abhinandan. https://t.co/efQkvtbQsf
— Vikram Chandra (@vikramchandra) February 27, 2019
#SayNoToWar Common DP!
Pls Stand with our soldiers and their families by changing your DPs!
WAR IS NOT A SOLUTION – SAY NO TO WAR 🙏 pic.twitter.com/aTW0yW0sYS
— Nathan (@Rationalizt) February 27, 2019
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