India, June 19 -- A rare handshake between Indian and Pakistani Army officers during the repatriation of a Pakistani national captured along the Line of Control offered a fleeting moment of military amid heightened tensions between the neighbours.

The Indian Army on Friday said it handed over Asad Khan, a resident of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, to the Pakistan Army after treating him with "dignity and compassion" during his six-day detention.

Khan was apprehended on June 12 after he inadvertently crossed the Line of Control into Simari village in the Teetwal sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.

Pictures shared by the Army's Chinar Corps showed the handover at a border crossing point, with a senior Indian Army off...