{"id":56198,"date":"2019-03-02T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56198"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:24:42","slug":"iaf-wing-commander-abhinandan-returns-home-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/iaf-wing-commander-abhinandan-returns-home-from-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan returns home from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman returned home from Pakistan on Friday to a hero&#8217;s welcome, two days after he was captured following a dogfight when his MiG 21 was shot down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistani officials handed over Varthaman to Indian officials, including from the IAF, at the Attari-Wagah Border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was handed over to Indian authorities by Pakistan at the border point in Wagah, Assistant Chief of Air Staff&#8221;Air Vice Marshal R G K Kapoor said we are happy to have Abhinandan Varthaman back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varthaman was captured by Pakistani authorities on February 27 after an air combat between the air forces of the two countries, a day after New Delhi had conducted counter-terror operations in Pakistan&#8217;s Balakot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian Air Force on Thursday said it is very happy that captured pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman is returning home but dismissed suggestions it was a goodwill gesture, insisting it was in line with the Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman returned home from Pakistan on Friday to a hero&#8217;s welcome, two days after he was captured following a dogfight when his MiG 21 was shot down. Pakistani officials handed over Varthaman to Indian officials, including from the IAF, at the Attari-Wagah Border. Shortly after Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56200,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56198\/revisions\/56200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}