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Secure IAF pilot's release: DMK

Chennai, Feb 27
DMK President M.K. Stalin on Wednesday urged the Indian government to do everything necessary to bring back Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Varthaman Abhinandan who has been captured by the Pakistan Army.

In a tweet, Stalin said: "My thoughts are with the family and friends of Wing Commander Abhinandan.

"I urge the government of India to do everything necessary to get him safely back home at the earliest," he added.

Abhinandan's family lives in Chennai.


The parents of Wing Commander Varthaman Abhinandan were engulfed by gloom after coming to know that their son had been taken into custody in Pakistan.

When IANS contacted his father, retired Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman, over telephone, he declined to speak. The distressed family lives in Chennai's outskirts.

Like his father, Abhinandan chose the Indian Air Force (IAF) and was commissioned into service in 2004.

His father was once the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command.

Simhakutty Varthaman had shared his knowledge about the air force to film director Mani Ratnam for his Tamil movie "Kaatru Veliyidai" where the hero, an air force pilot, is captured by the Pakistan Army.

A person known to Simhakutty Varthaman told IANS: "I know the senior Varthaman. He is a nice person. I have not met Abhinandan. I know he is married."