Pakistan offered to release Indian war pilot to reduce tension | Chronic

Pakistan said it was ready to release an Indian war pilot to ease tensions with India after military escalation in the controversial Kashmir region, including bombing and demolishing the country. 39, fighter planes, alerting the world.

"We are ready to send back the captured Indian pilot if it leads to a reduction in tension"said the Pakistani Chancellor, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an interview with the local TV channel Geo.

The Pakistani army showed on Wednesday a sequence showing the pilot drinking tea in custody and in good condition.

Qureshi again offered the dialogue to India and claimed that the Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is ready to talk to your Indian counterpart.

"Khan is ready to have a phone conversation with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ", the Pakistani diplomat said, quoted by the news agency EFE.

The Minister also confirmed that they had received a "report" Indian authorities and that "they will examine".

India and Pakistan, two countries endowed with nuclear weapons, claim sovereignty over the entire Himalayan region of Kashmir, at the origin of three of the four wars that the two neighbors have conducted since the independence of the United Kingdom in 1947.

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The Indian part, called the province of Jammu and Kashmir, is the only region of the country with a Muslim majority. Since 1988, it has been the scene of an Islamist insurgency that seeks independence from India and is under the control of Pakistan.

India says Pakistan supports these insurgent groups. The Pakistani government does not deny its political support to the separatists it describes as "freedom fighters".

The offer to free the Indian pilot comes amidst an unprecedented military escalation in recent years, after India bombed a camp of Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on Pakistani soil in February. attack in Indian Kashmir in which 42 soldiers died.

However, the Islamabad executive maintains that this action did not cause casualties and that Indian bombs fell in open spaces. In response, Pakistan yesterday announced the slaughter of two Indian fighters and the capture of one of the pilots, in addition to the bombing by the line of control (LoC, de facto Kashmir border) of Indian territory without causing any casualties or damage.

India, for its part, acknowledged the loss of a plane and the capture of the pilot, and claimed that he had shot down a Pakistani fighter without providing any evidence.

Khan called for dialogue last Wednesday, during a speech to the nation, but India has not responded to the proposal.