{"id":261705,"date":"2019-02-28T06:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261705"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:30:57","slug":"iaf-pilot-in-pakistani-custody-will-be-governed-under-geneva-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-pilot-in-pakistani-custody-will-be-governed-under-geneva-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pilot in Pakistani custody will be governed under Geneva Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force\u2019s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, in Pakistani custody after his plane was shot down on Wednesday, will be governed under the Geneva Convention of 1929.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one pilot under Pakistan Army\u2019s custody. Wing Comd Abhi Nandan is being treated as per norms of military ethics,\u201d Pakistani military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor said on Twitter as tension between the two countries escalated.<\/p>\n<p>The rules protecting prisoners of war (POWs) are specific. They were first detailed in the 1929 Geneva Convention and later amended in the third 1949 Geneva Convention following the lessons of World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force\u2019s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, in Pakistani custody after his plane was shot down on Wednesday, will be governed under the Geneva Convention of 1929. \u201cThere is only one pilot under Pakistan Army\u2019s custody. Wing Comd Abhi Nandan is being treated as per norms of military ethics,\u201d Pakistani military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor said on Twitter as tension between the two countries escalated. The rules protecting prisoners of war (POWs) are specific. They were first detailed in the 1929 Geneva Convention and later amended in the third 1949 Geneva Convention following the lessons of World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}