Right after Imran Khan said the captured IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman will be released as a “gesture of peace”, Narendra Modi raised eyebrows on both sides of the India-Pakistan when he apparently used “pilot” as a pun during a function in New Delhi.
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The father of IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, captured by Pakistan after an aerial engagement between the two countries, said he is proud of his son’s bravery and hope for his safe return home. He also thanked citizens for their support and good wishes.
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Donald Trump said, “We have reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India. They have been going at it and we have been involved trying to have them stop. We have some reasonably decent news. I think hopefully that it’s going to come to an end.”
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The Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, on Thursday, stated that his country is willing to consider returning the captured Indian Air Force pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, if it leads to “de-escalation of tensions” with India.
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Congress senior leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Thursday, appealed for peace and stressed that the solution to terror is “peace, development and progress, not unemployment, hatred and fear”.
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The tension between both the countries has escalated within two weeks of a deadly suicide attack in Pulwama carried by Jaish-e-Muhammad, after which both India and Pakistan conducted air strikes on each other’s soil.
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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, on Wednesday said the air strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force against the Jaish-e-Muhammad camps in Pakistan was action that Indians could “only imagine all these years but never achieve”.
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BJP Karnatakata chief BS Yeddyurappa said the nation’s pre-emptive strikes on terror camps has created a wave in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will help the party win over 22 of 28 seats in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
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Just a day after India conducted air strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot, the external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, on Wednesday, said the objective of this mission was to act against a terror camp and that India doesn’t wish to see any “further escalation”.
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