{"id":309882,"date":"2019-02-28T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309882"},"modified":"2019-03-02T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:39:29","slug":"pakistan-to-release-captured-iaf-pilot-tomorrow-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-to-release-captured-iaf-pilot-tomorrow-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to release captured IAF Pilot tomorrow: Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309883 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Abhinandan-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Abhinandan-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Abhinandan.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said they will release captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot tomorrow as a peace gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan made the announcement while addressing a joint session of the parliament where he briefed members of the Senate and National Assembly on the ongoing situation with India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPakistan\u2019s desire for de-escalation should not be confused as weakness, said Imran Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian government sources today said they have not asked for consular access to the IAF pilot and is insisting on his unconditional and immediate return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, India had summoned the acting high commissioner of Pakistan and demanded the immediate and safe return of the IAF pilot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India had also conveyed a strong objection to Pakistan\u2019s vulgar display of injured personnel of the Indian Air Force in violation of all norms of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Convention<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan on Wednesday captured Pilot Abhinandan following a fierce engagement between air forces of the two sides along the Line of Control (LoC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said they will release captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot tomorrow as a peace gesture. Khan made the announcement while addressing a joint session of the parliament where he briefed members of the Senate and National Assembly on the ongoing situation with India. \u201cPakistan\u2019s desire for de-escalation should not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10959,3867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309882"}],"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=309882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309885,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309882\/revisions\/309885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}