India Pakistan conflict LIVE updates: Pilot captured as jet shot down over Kashmir

India has demanded the return of IAF wing commander Abhinandan who has been pictured bloodied and blindfolded after his jet was shot down over Kashmir

Tensions between the two nuclear powers continues to escalate in the disputed region with the countries reportedly exchanging shellfire over the LoC (Line of Conflict).

Pakistan claims to have shot down two Indian jets that were in its airspace, however, India says just one of their planes was lost and that they downed a Pakistani jet.

Footage of the captured pilot, named as Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, has widely circulated online.

Both countries have ordered air strikes over the 'Line of Control' in Kashmir over last two days, the first time in history that two nuclear-armed powers have done so, while ground forces have exchanged fire in more than a dozen locations.  

The conflict escalated a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971.