With the specter of all-out war looming, Pakistan announced that it would release a captured Indian pilot on Friday as a “peace gesture.”

In a televised address to Parliament on Thursday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said the captured pilot would be released as the “first step to open negotiations” in resolving tensions between the two embattled nations.

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