03-05-2019, 09:41 PM
** 1-Mar-2019 Pakistan returns captured pilot to India, de-escalating tensions
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In the last couple of hours, Pakistan has returned the captured Indian
Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman to India.
Pakistan's president Imran Kahn described it as a "gesture of peace,"
and it does seem to have de-escalated tensions for the time being.
India's narrative seems to be falling apart in several ways. India
claimed that it had killed hundreds of terrorists in a bombing of a
terrorist training camp run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), which had taken
responsibility for a massive terrorist attack that killed over 40
Indian soldiers, but there have been no bodies and no funerals. India
claimed that it had shot down a Pakistani warplane, but apparently it
hasn't.
Initially, when Pakistan shot down the Indian warplane and captured
the pilot, India's population were united behind Narendra Modi, but in
the days since then, the political opposition have turned against
Modi, and everyone is just relieved to have Varthaman back, whom they
regard as a hero.
--- Abhinandan Varthaman / Pakistan hands over captured fighter pilot
to India, de-escalating war tension
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati...story.html
(AP)
- Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman in picture taken
while in Pakistani custody
In the last couple of hours, Pakistan has returned the captured Indian
Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman to India.
Pakistan's president Imran Kahn described it as a "gesture of peace,"
and it does seem to have de-escalated tensions for the time being.
India's narrative seems to be falling apart in several ways. India
claimed that it had killed hundreds of terrorists in a bombing of a
terrorist training camp run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), which had taken
responsibility for a massive terrorist attack that killed over 40
Indian soldiers, but there have been no bodies and no funerals. India
claimed that it had shot down a Pakistani warplane, but apparently it
hasn't.
Initially, when Pakistan shot down the Indian warplane and captured
the pilot, India's population were united behind Narendra Modi, but in
the days since then, the political opposition have turned against
Modi, and everyone is just relieved to have Varthaman back, whom they
regard as a hero.
--- Abhinandan Varthaman / Pakistan hands over captured fighter pilot
to India, de-escalating war tension
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati...story.html
(AP)
