{"id":33672,"date":"2019-03-01T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33672"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:23:37","slug":"pakistan-to-release-captured-indian-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33672","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to release captured Indian pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN)<\/cite>India is waiting for the release of a pilot who has been in Pakistani custody since he was shot down over Kashmir on Wednesday, a goodwill gesture which could defuse the gravest crisis in the disputed border region in years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that the pilot, whose jet was downed during a dogfight between Pakistani and Indian warplanes, would be released Friday as a &#8220;gesture for peace.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Despite the planned release of the pilot, tensions in the region continued Thursday.<strong> <\/strong>Indian Army Major General Surinder Singh Bahal told a joint news conference of India&#8217;s Army, Navy and Air Force in New Delhi on Thursday that India remains on &#8220;high alert.&#8221;  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)India is waiting for the release of a pilot who has been in Pakistani custody since he was shot down over Kashmir on Wednesday, a goodwill gesture which could defuse the gravest crisis in the disputed border region in years.Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that the pilot, whose jet was downed during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}