There Is No Longer Video Links Of IAF Pilot On YouTube From Now

On February 28, YouTube deleted 11 video links in relation to Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman as a pilot of Indian Air Force (or IAF for short) according to the request from the IT Ministry.

As reported by IANS, an official who now works for the IT Ministry revealed that it required the video sharing platform to remove all of the video links of the Wing Commander. For those unknown, the Pakistani military caught him on February 27, after they shot his MiG fighter aircraft down at the border.

After that, they recorded videos of this Indian pilot and release them on the Internet, in which netizens could find and share them on a variety of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and of course, YouTube. Some most outstanding hashtags included #MiG21, #SayNoToWar, #PakFakeClaim, or #BringbackAbhinandan. These hashtags hailed from all netizens of both sides with a lot of various expressions.

Two days after, on March 01, the IAF pilot was set free “as a peace gesture”. That’s what Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan said on the last day of February.

Before that, the Indian government had demanded the Pakistani released the Indian pilot who flew the MiG-21 Bison and fired down an F-16 of the Pakistani army.