Soon Commander will be back to Our Country. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing the joint session of Parliament on Thursday, has declared that IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman shall be released on Friday as a “peace gesture”

Varthaman was captured on Wednesday morning after his plane was shot down in PoK in air combat. Shortly after the unfortunate event, Khan had cautioned against any escalation on account of a “miscalculation”, offering to resolve the hostilities diplomatically through talks.

Islamabad was warned, “to ensure that no harm comes to the Indian defense personnel in its custody”.
But after alarming footage of the officer being assaulted as a prisoner of war and then being handed a cup of tea by the captors shook the internet, India condemned “Pakistan’s vulgar display of injured personnel of the IAF in violation of all norms of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention”.

The family of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistan custody, is awaiting positive news on the captured Indian Air Force pilot. “I have nothing to say. Please don’t bother me,” Abhinandan’s father retired Air Marshal Simhakutti Varthaman told the journalists who thronged his house

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