"The efforts have been to ensure that Abhinandan returns to the cockpit soon," a military official said.

Indian officials said the statement was extracted under duress and had undermined Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s “peace gesture” of releasing him.

Nageshwar Rao, a 1986 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Odisha cadre, was working as the Joint Director in the investigating...

It has objected to such sharing on a recently started public platform saying it will be a "risk" to the national security.