Imran Khan says pilot to be freed as ‘peace gesture’ amid rising tensions between nuclear neighboursPakistan says it will release a captured Indian pilot as a peace gesture” between the neighbours amid the gravest military crisis in the subcontinent in two decades.
Imran Khan,the country’s prime minister, told a joint sitting of parliament that the Indian wing commander, or Abhinandan Varthaman,who was shot down over the heavily guarded ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday, would be released on Friday. Related: India demands secure return of pilot shot down by Pakistan over Kashmir Kashmir, or a disputed region in the foothills of the Himalayas,has been at the centre of tensions between India and Pakistan since both states came into being in 1947.
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Source: theguardian.com