Imran Khan said that if the next Indian government were led by the opposition Congress party, it might be too scared to seek a settlement with Pakistan over Kashmir.

The IAF had issued a similar statement on Friday asserting that it shot down an F-16 in Nowshera sector.

On February 27, the Pakistan Air Force retaliated by unsuccessfully targeting several military installations in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan government has reliable intelligence that India is devising a new plan to attack the country.

The prisoners will be released in four batches, scheduled as 100 each on April 8, 15 and 29.

"Nobody has diminished the status of the office of the Prime Minister more than Narendra Modi," Kapil Sibal said.

India summoned Pakistan's deputy high commissioner here and conveyed concerns over the presence of several Khalistani separatists in a committee appointed by Pakistan on the Kartarpur Corridor.

Pakistan-based terror group JeM's complicity in the Pulwama attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel on February 14.

The test makes India the fourth country in the world after the US, Russia and China to acquire the strategic capability to shoot down enemy satellites.

'I'm still apprehensive before the (Indian) elections, I feel that something could happen,' The News International quoted Khan.