A government official said the debriefing of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthman is over and he has been sent on sick leave for three weeks. The official also said the pilot will be medically examined again and only then the call will be taken if he can fly again.
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In a new turn of events, a retired Air Marshal Wasim-ud-din of Pakistan, who media reports claimed as a father of downed Pakistani F-16 pilot, Wing Commander Shahaz-ud-Din (or Shahzaz-ud-Din, according to some reports), has said that Shahaz-ud-Din was not his son.
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Various hoardings carrying the images of Narendra Modi along with the Indian soldiers and with messages such as “Modi hai toh mumkin hai”, lauding the prime minister for the IAF strikes on terror camps in Pakistan, dotted the city of Ahmedabad ahead of Modi’s visit to the city.
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The Indian defence establishment claimed, on Friday, it had synthetic aperture radar (SAR) pictures for proving that it had effectively hit the Jaish-e-Muhammed’s terror training facility at Balakot in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan in the February 26 air strikes.
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Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, the Indian Air Force MiG-21 pilot who was in Pakistan’s custody for nearly 60 hours, was handed over to Indian authorities at Attari-Wagah border, on Friday night.
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While claiming that two Indian MiGs crossed the line of control (LoC) and Pakistan shot them down, the Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan, again offered talks with India, on Thursday.
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Amid escalated tensions between India and Pakistan, 21 opposition parties led by the Congress assailed the ruling BJP for “politicizing the sacrifices” made by our armed forces and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi immediately convene an all-party meeting.
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A day after Indian Air Force jets bombed terror camps deep inside Pakistan, Islamabad has claimed that it has shot down two aircraft of the Indian Air Force and captured one pilot. It released a video purportedly showing Indian MiG-21 pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan.
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Amid the escalating tension along the India-Pakistan border, on Wednesday, India acknowledged that Pakistani warplanes engaged with Indian warplanes and shot down one MiG-21. It also said, one pilot is missing in action.
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Flight operations at seven airports including Srinagar, Jammu and Leh resumed after they were briefly suspended amid escalation of tension between India and Pakistan after the Indian Air Force carried out strikes on a Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camp in Balakot.
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