Author and granddaughter of former Pakistan PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Fatima Bhutto, has requested Pakistan PM Imran Khan government to release the captured IAF pilot Abhinandan, on Wednesday.

“I and many other young Pakistanis have called upon our country to release the captured Indian pilot as a gesture of our commitment to peace, humanity and dignity. We have spent a lifetime at war. I do not want to see Pakistani soldiers die. I do not want to see Indian soldiers die. We cannot be a subcontinent of orphans. My generation of Pakistanis have fought for the right to speak, and we are not afraid to lend our voices to that most righteous cause: peace. But our long history with military dictatorships and experience of terrorism and uncertainty means that my generation of Pakistanis has no tolerance, no appetite, for jingoism or war. I have never seen my country at peace with its neighbour. But never before have I seen a war played out between two nuclear-armed states with Twitter accounts,” stated the niece of former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto.

Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan was captured on Wednesday after he ejected safely from his MiG 21 Bison aircraft but landed across the Line of Control.