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The calls to de-escalate and ease the tension between India and Pakistan are rising from all over the world. Besides, students, concerned citizens, anti-nuclear activists, universities, trade unions and peace workers across the globe, the regional networks and organisations from South Asia also requested India and Pakistan to maintain the status quo recently after the last week’s escalation of tensions led to a dangerous impasse between the two countries. They urged the countries “to adopt maximum restraint and cease all hostilities to ensure peace in South Asia.”