India welcomes the decision of the Pakistani leadership to release and return home a pilot of the Indian Air Force, who was taken into custody the day before, following an aerial skirmish over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, India's Air Vice Marshal Ravi Gopal Krishana Kapoor said on Thursday
NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th February, 2019) India welcomes the decision of the Pakistani leadership to release and return home a pilot of the Indian Air Force, who was taken into custody the day before, following an aerial skirmish over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, India's Air Vice Marshal Ravi Gopal Krishana Kapoor said on Thursday."We are extremely happy to have him back, we want to see him back ... [but] we only see it as a gesture which is in consonance with all Geneva conventions," Kapoor said at a joint military briefing in New Delhi.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said earlier in the day that Islamabad had decided to release the captured Indian pilot on Friday, as a "goodwill gesture."
