Pakistan seeks to defuse the military escalation with India: offer to release a pilot and reopen the dialogue

After a military escalation in the disputed region of Kashmir, which included the bombardment and demolition of combatants, Pakistan was ready to release a war pilot reduce tensions with India.

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

Qureshi once again offered to reopen dialogue with India and said that Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is ready to talk with his Indian counterpart.

India and Pakistan, two countries with nuclear weaponsclaim their sovereignty over the entire Himalayan region of Kashmir. The border problem has provoked three wars since independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.

The Indian part, called Jammu and Kashmir province, is the only region of the country Muslim majority and since 1988 is the scene of a Islamist insurgency who seeks the independence of India and that the region pbades under the control of Pakistan.

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

The offer of release of the Indian driver arrives in the middle of a day unprecedented military escalation in recent years, after India bombed a camp of the Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on Pakistani soil, which claimed on February 14 responsibility for the attack in Indian Kashmir, during which 42 soldiers are dead.

However, the Islamabad executive maintains that this action did not cause casualties and that Indian bombs fell in open spaces.

In response, Pakistan announced yesterday the slaughter of two Indian fighters and the capture of one of the pilots, in addition to the bombardment by the control line (LoC, de facto Kashmir border) of Indian territory without causing casualties or damage.

India, on the other hand, acknowledged the loss of an aircraft and the capture of the pilot and badured that there was overthrown a Pakistani fighter, without providing evidence.