- Title: Indians gather at border with Pakistan to welcome downed pilot
- Date: 1st March 2019
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) NEW DELHI RESIDENT, SUSHIL, SAYING: "I am very happy that our pilot is being sent back. Pakistan has taken a very good step by sending back our pilot." LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (MARCH 1, 2019) (REUTERS) PEOPLE STANDING AROUND NEWSPAPER STAND VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPERS ON TABLE VARIOUS OF LUCKNOW RESIDENTS READING NEWSPAPER (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) LUCKNOW RE
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- Keywords: morning story Pakistan Indian pilot strikes Indo-Pak border pilot Kashmir down pilot headlines tensions India newspapers border
- Location: ATTARI, PUNJAB / NEW DELHI / LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH / MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
- City: ATTARI, PUNJAB / NEW DELHI / LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH / MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA006A46TTFR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Indians eagerly waited for the return of a captured pilot by Islamabad on Friday (March 1), with some who have been staking out the Wagah border with Pakistan vowing to stay there until the arrival of their "hero".
The pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan, became the human face of the flare-up over the contested region of Kashmir following the release of videos showing him being captured and later held in custody.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said the pilot would be released on Friday, even as his military reported that four Pakistani civilians had been killed by India firing across the disputed border in Kashmir. The United States, China, European Union and other powers have urged restraint from the two nations, as tensions escalated following a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14.
The Muslim-majority Himalayan region has been at the heart of more than 70 years of animosity, since the partition of the British colony of India into the separate countries of Muslim Pakistan and majority Hindu India. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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