After the recent military confrontation between Pakistan and India, Pakistan has released on Friday and a on Wednesday captured Indian pilots. The Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian air force was handed over on Friday evening (local time) to the Indian authorities at the border crossing at Wagah in the Punjab province, to see as television images.
The Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced the release on Thursday in a speech in the Parliament in Islamabad. She was a “gesture of peace”.
tensions between The rival nuclear powers India and Pakistan had deteriorated in the past few days. After India’s air force had flown in on Tuesday night for the first Time since 1971, an attack on Pakistani territory and shot down Pakistan according to its own data on Wednesday, two Indian fighter planes. An Indian Pilot had been set after that.
Khan had already offered on Wednesday in a televised address India talks. The government of India, the hindu-nationalist BJP party of Prime Minister modi, however, is under pressure to show strength, because in a few months, a parliamentary election is pending.
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An official reaction from New Delhi on the interview offer so far. From the Indian government circles it was said that there was no basis for a dialogue, as long as Pakistan do nothing against the terrorist groups operating from its territory – especially the group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which claimed an attack in the Indian part of Kashmir two weeks ago, with 40 dead Indian security forces. (dpa)
