Indian and Pakistan military officials confirmed that Pakistan has captured one Indian soldier along the border in Kashmir, reported Reuters.
Pakistan captured an Indian soldier on its side of the disputed Kashmir border, military officials in the two countries said on Thursday, as tensions rose following a cross-border raid that India said it carried out against militants.
“It is confirmed one soldier from 37 Rashtriya Rifles with weapons has inadvertently crossed over to the Pakistan side of the Line of Control,” an Indian Army official said in New Delhi.
The Indian Army on Thursday rejected reports in a section of Pakistani media that eight Indian soldiers were killed and one captured by Pakistani military in retaliatory fire as "false and baseless".
He said such incidents of people, including civilians crossing the frontier by mistake have happened in the past from both sides and those who strayed are returned.
Two officials based in Pakistan’s Chamb sector said the Indian soldier with weapons was captured at 1:30am on Thursday.
Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported about the capture with exclusive details about the name and place where the soldier came from. But the newspaper took down the information in an update later in the evening.
Rezaul Hasan Laskar, a journalist with the Hindustan Times, however, said that the news was not true.
Another journalist, Vishnu Som, quoted military sources and said that the captured person was a deserter.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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