Pakistan draws Indian ire with museum display on captured pilot


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019

Students visit a stall displaying the wreckage of Indian Mig-21 fighter aircraft that was shot down by Pakistan Air Force on February 27, 2019, at a gallery ÔOperation Swift RetortÕ at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum in Karachi, Pakistan November 13, 2019. EUTERS/Imran Ali

KARACHI (Reuters) - The crude waxwork figure isn't much to look at, although it does feature the famous moustache. But Pakistan's new museum exhibit on an Indian pilot captured when the two nations came close to war earlier this year is causing ire across the border.

Pakistan's Air Force on Wednesday opened a new gallery in its museum on Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was shot down in a dog-fight as the two countries clashed over the contested Kashmir region in February.

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