{"id":309863,"date":"2019-02-28T07:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309863"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:05:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:05:17","slug":"fatima-bhutto-seeks-release-of-iaf-pilot-captured-by-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fatima-bhutto-seeks-release-of-iaf-pilot-captured-by-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatima Bhutto seeks release of IAF pilot captured by Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-309865 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ftima-bhutto-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/ftima-bhutto-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/ftima-bhutto.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Author Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, on Wednesday asked the Pakistan government to release the Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot captured after air combat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhutto took to her twitter account and tweeted, \u201cPakistan must maintain this profoundly moral stand. It would be an important gesture to release the captured Indian air force pilot. Our commitment at this moment must be to peace and humanity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI and many other young Pakistanis have called upon our country to release the captured Indian pilot as a gesture of our commitment to peace, humanity and dignity. We have spent a lifetime at war. I do not want to see Pakistani soldiers die. I do not want to see Indian soldiers die. We cannot be a subcontinent of orphans,\u201d Bhutto wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy generation of Pakistanis have fought for the right to speak, and we are not afraid to lend our voices to that most righteous cause: peace,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She further added, \u201cbut our long history with military dictatorships and experience of terrorism and uncertainty means that my generation of Pakistanis have no tolerance, no appetite, for jingoism or war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pilot Abhinandan was captured yesterday after he ejected safely from his MiG 21 Bison aircraft but landed across the Line of Control (LoC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has demanded &#8220;immediate and safe return&#8221; of the Indian Air Force pilot who was taken into custody by the Pakistani army.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, on Wednesday asked the Pakistan government to release the Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot captured after air combat. Bhutto took to her twitter account and tweeted, \u201cPakistan must maintain this profoundly moral stand. It would be an important gesture to release the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[10958,10957,2047,574,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309867,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309863\/revisions\/309867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}