{"id":309928,"date":"2019-03-01T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309928"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:06:10","slug":"indian-air-force-wing-commander-abhinandan-varthaman-returns-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-air-force-wing-commander-abhinandan-varthaman-returns-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman returns to India"},"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-309936 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Abhinandan...-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Abhinandan...-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Abhinandan....jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman has returned to India at the Wagah-Attari border, two days after being captured by Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A large number of people on Friday assembled at the Attari Joint Check Post (JCP) to receive IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday made the announcement while addressing a joint session of the parliament that they would release captured IAF pilot as a peace gesture.<\/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 immediate and safe return of the IAF pilot. 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 captured Pilot Abhinandan on Wednesday 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>Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman has returned to India at the Wagah-Attari border, two days after being captured by Pakistan. A large number of people on Friday assembled at the Attari Joint Check Post (JCP) to receive IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.\u00a0 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday made the announcement while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[10968,2047,10969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309928"}],"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=309928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309939,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309928\/revisions\/309939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}