NEW DELHI: A furious backlash erupted in India Saturday (Mar 2) over a video of an Indian pilot shot down by Pakistan praising his captors, as ...
NEW DELHI: A furious backlash erupted in India Saturday over a video of an Indian pilot shot down by Pakistan praising his captors, as deadly tensions simmered between the neighbours with fierce shelling across their Kashmir frontier.
Media reports said Abhinandan's return to India had been held up because the pilot was forced to make the video before getting his freedom. "Sadly the image you paint for us is marred terribly by the video he's forced to record just before you sent him back," Abdullah said on Twitter.Indian media slammed the video as"distasteful" and said it breached international norms for prisoners of war.
Pakistan media praised the government for releasing the pilot, with lawyer Shahzaib Khan writing in the Express Tribune that Prime Minister Imran Khan had"done Pakistan proud by not engaging in chest thumping or war-mongering for political gain.""Not a good idea. This will backfire," said Gul Bukhari, a prominent critic of the government and the powerful military.
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