{"id":18402,"date":"2019-06-26T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=18402"},"modified":"2019-06-26T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:34:26","slug":"abhinandans-facial-hair-must-be-declared-national-moustache-congress-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=18402","title":{"rendered":"Abhinandan\u2019s facial hair must be declared \u2018national moustache\u2019: Congress leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SRINAGAR, (PTK): Indian Air Force (AIF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman is back in the headlines. This time, after Congress leader called for his facial hair to be declared the \u2018national moustache\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On February 27, the IAF pilot was captured after Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft shot down two Indian jets after they intruded into its territory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman should be awarded and his moustache should be made \u2018national moustache\u2019,\u201d Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, leader of the Congress party in the lower house of parliament, said on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to media reports, the opposition party\u2019s leader argued that the pilot should be given a national honour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pakistan \u2018as a goodwill gesture\u2019  handed over the captured pilot to Indian authorities at Wagah border on March 1.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tensions escalated between Islamabad and New Delhi after the February 14 suicide attack in which a young man \u2013 a native of occupied Kashmir \u2013 rammed an explosives-laden car into an Indian paramilitary convoy, killing over 40 personnel in Pulwama district.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Following the Pulwama incident, the Indian Air Force violated Pakistani airspace near the Line of Control (LoC) and were chased away by PAF jets on February 26.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, (PTK): Indian Air Force (AIF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman is back in the headlines. This time, after Congress leader called for his facial hair to be declared the \u2018national moustache\u2019. On February 27, the IAF pilot was captured after Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft shot down two Indian jets after they intruded into its territory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}