{"id":264519,"date":"2019-03-15T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264519"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:13:50","slug":"india-aware-of-identity-of-pak-f16-pilot-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-aware-of-identity-of-pak-f16-pilot-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"India aware of identity of Pak F16 pilot: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Pakistan has so far denied that its F-16 was shot down on February 27 by India, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Indian forces know the identity of the Pakistani pilot. His F-16 was hit by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman\u2019s Mig-21 Bison on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani pilot was killed after he was reportedly beaten up by locals when he ejected and landed in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) in a case of mistaken identity. The pilot reportedly later died in the hospital. However, Pakistan continues to deny the twin loss of F-16 or its pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Making this assertion during a security conclave hosted by a private television channel on Tuesday, Sitharaman had said the Indian military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Pakistan has so far denied that its F-16 was shot down on February 27 by India, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Indian forces know the identity of the Pakistani pilot. His F-16 was hit by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman\u2019s Mig-21 Bison on that day. The Pakistani pilot was killed after he was reportedly beaten up by locals when he ejected and landed in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) in a case of mistaken identity. The pilot reportedly later died in the hospital. However, Pakistan continues to deny the twin loss of F-16 or its pilot. Making this assertion [&hellip;]<\/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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264519","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=264519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}