1 March 2019 APAC Advisory – Pakistan: Captured pilot to be released
Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan announced in the National Assembly yesterday that the pilot will be released today evening as a “goodwill gesture of peace” and also offered to have peace talks with India if it helps to deescalate the situation. Indian Deputy Chief of Air Force said, “We are happy that our pilot who had fallen across the Line of Control and was in the custody of Pakistan is being released. We only see it as a gesture which is in consonance with the Geneva Conventions.