'It is good for both sides.'
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's prime minister pledged on Thursday his country would release a captured Indian fighter pilot, a move that could help defuse the most serious confrontation in two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours over the disputed region of Kashmir.
"Pakistan wants peace, but it should not be treated as our weakness," Khan said"The region will prosper if there is peace and stability. It is good for both sides."Children hold banners and Indian national flags after Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Pakistan will release an Indian Air Force pilot on Friday, in a street in Mumbai, Feb.28, 2019.
India acknowledged one of its MiG-21s, a Soviet-era fighter jet, was"lost" in skirmishes with Pakistan. India's Ministry of External Affairs said late Wednesday that it"strongly objected to Pakistan's vulgar display of an injured personnel of the Indian Air Force," and that it expects his immediate and safe return.Kashmir has been divided but claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan since almost immediately after the two countries' creation in 1947.
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