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Thursday, February 28, 2019
Pakistan to release Indian pilot Friday as ‘peace gesture’
Pakistan will release a captured Indian pilot on Friday, Prime Minister Imran Khan tells a joint session of parliament, in an overture towards New Delhi after soaring tensions fueled fears of conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.
“As a peace gesture we are releasing the Indian pilot tomorrow,” Khan says, a day after Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was shot down in a rare aerial engagement between the South Asian neighbors over the disputed region of Kashmir.
— AFP