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Rishra (West Bengal): Eighteen days after Border Security Force (BSF) jawan Purnam Sau was captured by Pakistani troops, and nearly 24 hours after the ceasefire announcement, the 34-year-old soldier remains in military custody.

As India-Pakistan tensions continue to simmer, his family in Rishra, West Bengal, holds on to hope, even as diplomatic efforts show slow progress.

Sau, posted with the 24th Battalion of the BSF in Firozpur, was deployed along the Indo-Pak border on April 23, just a day after 26 Indian tourists were killed in a cross-border terror strike in Pahalgam.

While assisting local farmers in evacuating a vulnerable zone, Sau allegedly crossed the international boundary inadvertently. Pakistani forces reportedly detained him and later released a photograph showing him........

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