Pakistan will free a captured Indian pilot as a 'peace gesture,' Prime Minister Imran Khan says. His plane was shot down Wednesday.
By CNN's Nic RobertsonThese are the stakes that face both the recently-elected Imran Khan in Pakistan and Narendra Modi, of the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in India, who is soon to face the electorate again.
Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan gestures as he delivers a speech during a political campaign rally, in Islamabad, on July 21, 2018.During Pakistan’s general election last year, Imran Khan was dismissed by detractors as a political lightweight and foreign policy novice who relied on populism and deference to the country’s influential military for support.
“In Pakistan there’s nothing like aggression from India to rally the people,” he told CNN. “The fact that Pakistan had India come into the country to stage these airstrikes, it’s an embarrassment for the military. But the entire country will rally round Imran Kahn to support him.”“He certainly is a neophyte, he has no experience as a national leader, he’s been a politician for a number of years but hasn’t been in a position of national power,” he added.
"That's been going on for a long time. Decades and decades. There's a lot of dislike, unfortunately, so we've been in the middle trying to help them both out, and see if we can get some organization and some peace, and I think, uh, probably that's going to be happening."Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said"the entire country is one and is standing with our soldiers.
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