Published 18:10 IST, February 28th 2019
TITANIC WIN FOR INDIA: Pakistan to release IAF's Wing Commander Abhinandan tomorrow, crumbling under unprecedented pressure from India
In a titanic win for India, Pakistan has buckled under the relentless and unprecedented pressure mounted by India and has announced that it will release captured IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan tomorrow.
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In a titanic win for India, Pakistan has buckled under relentless and unprecedented pressure mounted by India and has anunced that it will release captured IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan tomorrow.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan me anuncement in Pakistani Parliament on Thursday, after his government's repeated attempts and statements using Wing Commander Abhinandan's capture to beg India to come to negotiating table utterly failed, leaving Pakistan with escape route.
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Putting Pakistan on ropes, India h on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's acting envoy and issued him a demarche ultimatum over vulgar videos released by Pakistan of India's pilot and treatment he h been subjected to which, among or things, is violative of Geneva convention.
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On Thursday, top sources in Ministry of External Affairs h ruled out any deal with Pakistan over Wing Commander's return, holding firm that Pakistan would have to release him as India h demanded - safely and immediately. sources mentioned IC-814 hijacking two deces earlier when India was forced into releasing captured terrorists who would later go on to perpetrate massive acts of terror.
A spooked Pakistan has closed its air and also issued a state of Emergency in its largest city Karachi following its failed attempt at intruding into India's air on Wednesday morning, where its F-16 squron's design to attack India's military installations was repulsed and its fighter jets me to scarper by Indian Air Force. One of Pakistan's US-me F-16s were shot down by Indian fighters. It was in this operation that Wing Commander Abhinandan's MIG-21 Bison went down.
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Pakistan's ill-vised reprisal came after Indian Air Force avenged Jaish-e-Mohammed-perpetrated Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF Jawans were martyred with a precision strike decimating Pakistani terror bases across LoC.
16:48 IST, February 28th 2019