Pakistan to release captured Indian pilot

By Zach Halaschak

Published February 28, 2019 4:19pm ET

Pakistan to release captured Indian pilot — A Pakistani soldier stands guard near the wreckage of an Indian plane shot down by the Pakistan military on Wednesday, in Hurran, near the Line of Control in Pakistani Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. | (Abdul Razzaq/AP)

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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