Television footage showed Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman walking across the border
near the town of Wagah this afternoon. Indian officials confirmed he had been returned and said he would be taken for medical checks.
The plane crashed on the Pakistani side of the de facto border that separates the two sides of Kashmir, a Himalayan region that has been a source of hostility between the two countries ever since independence from Britain in 1947. — RTÉ News March 1, 2019 Tensions escalated rapidly following a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on 14 February.
Pakistan, which agreed to release the captured pilot as a "gesture of peace," has been at pains to insist it wants talks to end the crisis. The United States and other world powers have urged restraint.
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