BBC: India demands Pakistan release pilot as Kashmir crisis intensifies
India has demanded the release of a fighter pilot shot down by Pakistan warplanes in a major escalation between the two nuclear powers over Kashmir.
Video showing the pilot - blindfolded and with blood on his face - was shared by Pakistan's information ministry.
India described the images as a "vulgar display of an injured personnel".
Wednesday's aerial attacks across the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Indian and Pakistani territory in Kashmir are the first since a war in 1971.
The incident, in which Pakistan said it had shot down two military jets, has escalated tensions between the two nations, both of whom claim all of Kashmir, but control only parts of it.
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