Amid the rising tension on the defacto border, Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir that divides India and Pakistan, there are reports that Pakistan will formally treat captured Indian soldier as a Prisoner of War (PoW) and deal with him as per the Geneva Convention.
Pakistan captured Indian soldier Chandu Babulal Chohan on its side of the disputed Kashmir border recently hours after a cross-border raid, which India claimed as a "surgical strike."
According to media reports, Pakistan is treating the captured Indian soldier as an active combatant after India announced to the world that it had carried out surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Meanwhile, the Pakistan army has repeatedly dismissed claims that India's military conducted "surgical strikes" on its side of the border in Kashmir region.
Pakistan rejected the claims as an "illusion" but acknowledged the loss of two of its soldiers in the exchange of fire that also wounded nine others on Thursday.
Pakistan has also scaled up an international pressure to disprove India's claim of having successfully raided across the border.
A CNN report on Sunday stated that Pakistan's military had "brought in a busload of foreign journalists" to one of the five posts that Indian Special Forces had claimed to have struck. The reporter stated there were no signs of any Indian raid.
However, India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that efforts are underway to bring back the captured soldier.
The fresh tension between the two countries comes at a time when the Narendra Modi government in India has been struggling to contain protests on the streets of disputed Kashmir, where more than 80 civilians have been killed and thousands wounded in the last 10 weeks after a young separatist militant was killed by Indian security forces.
